Website speed optimization plugins
The caching and performance plugins used to speed up a WordPress site beyond the basic technical SEO setup.
- Status
- stable
- Trust
- unverified
- Owner
- Human: Ahmed Raza
- Approved
- Human: Ahmed Raza ·
WP Rocket or LiteSpeed Cache
- Add the plugin from the WordPress dashboard.
- Activate it.
- Configure caching and optimization settings.
Setting tip: only enable JavaScript defer if the site's functions still work correctly with it on. Alternative: LiteSpeed Cache, specifically for sites on LiteSpeed servers.1
Perfmatters plugin
A lightweight performance plugin with three core features: disabling unused scripts, removing query strings, and lazy-loading images.
Footnotes
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iSkills SEO course notes, compiled 2025. ↩
Sources
- [^iskills-course-notes]iSkills — course notes
Technical SEO — advanced crawl control
Robots.txt, meta robots tags, llms.txt, sitemap.xml, crawl-budget optimization, canonical tags, and .htaccess — the files that control how a crawler treats a site.
Website audit process
Why a site audit is run, the manual-vs-tool-based distinction, and the tools used to crawl a site for technical and on-page issues.