Starter Pack 2: Speed

Site Load Time: Every Second Counts

We have created some unique packages which will benefit your website’s running and improve your reach, thus increasing your audience and brand recognition. The second one we recommend is our speed pack, to ensure that you site is fast-loading and provides a positive experience.

Overview

• Cache
• Environment
• Frontend
• Media
• PHP
• WP Files
• More Information

Cache

• Activates three caching levels for maximum optimization of your website.
  • NGINX Direct Delivery to serve most of the static resources and achieve the fastest possible loading time.
  • Dynamic cache to improve the loading speed of your pages and speed up your website.
  • Memcached object caching mechanism designed to improve the connection between your application and its database.
• Adds and setsup SG Speed Optimizer plugin caching types (Dynamic + File-Based + Memcached).
• Activates the content delivery network tool (CDN).

Environment

• Enforces HTTPS use.
• Cleans and optimizes the WordPress database weekly.

Frontend

• Minifies your CSS and JavaScript files in order to reduce their size and the number of requests on the server.
• Combines multiple CSS and JavaScript files into one to lower the number of requests your site generates.
• Preloads combined CSS.
• Defers loading of render-blocking JavaScript files for faster initial site load.
• Removes unnecessary characters from your HTML output to reduce data size and improve your site loading speed.
• Optimizes web fonts and the default way to load Google fonts.
• Preloads the fonts you’re using for faster rendering and better site performance.

Media

• Uses WebP format to reduce the size of your images and skyrocket your page speed.
• Eenables Lazy Load that makes loading faster and smoother for longer pages with multiple media items.

PHP

• Activates Ultrafast PHP to be used.
• Sets PHP to the latest version released (8.5 from late 2025) if your site can handle it.
• Activate the PHP extensions geoip, imagick, Memcached, opcache, redis & ssh2.

WordPress Files

• Deletes all the un-used WP themes uploaded by default.
• Optimises your htaccess files, wp-config file, and php.ini file.
• Implements most of the speed tips that are recommended in this 2023 guide.

More Information

• Read our blog post about super caching and our webpage about site speed.
• Get familiar with our “language” by reading website running simplified.
• To purchase this package, improve your hosting performance, service or maintain your site and more, contact us.
• Starter packs: security, speed and emails.
• Intermediate packs: measurement, compliance and SEO Basics.
• Advanced packs: links, spam, sitemap/404 and social.