Boosting Front End Site Performance on WordPress
Learn how images, fonts, and CDNs contribute to site speed and stability.
Optimizing website performance is mission-critical for maintaining user engagement, ensuring search engine visibility, and increasing conversions. To achieve optimal performance, web developers must focus on several key factors, including:
- Dynamic and responsive images
- Server performance and response times
- Edge cache POP servers (CDN)
- Concatenation and enqueueing/deferring of JS/CSS
- Font loading
- Core Web Vitals
1. Dynamic and responsive images
Images play a crucial role in modern web design, but they can also be a significant source of performance issues. By optimizing images—with dynamic image resizing, `srcset` for serving right-sized images, and lazy loading—web developers can reduce page load times and improve site performance.