How I made my website LOAD 86% FASTER

Income School · Intermediate ·🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture ·5mo ago
Okay, real talk—my site used to take nearly 9 seconds to load. Not great, right? But now it’s clocking in at under 2 seconds, and I’m going to show you exactly how I did it, step by step, no tech degree required. WP Rocket - https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=52401&awinaffid=2586223&clickref=sponsvid&ued=https%3A%2F%2Fwp-rocket.me%2Fpricing%2F Pagespeed Insights - https://pagespeed.web.dev/ GT Metrix - https://gtmetrix.com/ Check out our System for Building and Growing Websites (and so much more) in Project 24: https://incomeschool.com/project24/?ref=45 Join the Income School Insiders…
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Chapters (14)

From 8.7s to under 2s load time
0:35 Why fast websites matter in 2025
0:59 Tools to check site speed: PageSpeed Insights & GTmetrix
1:50 Diagnosing problems: Render blocking, images, etc.
3:00 Step 1: Turn on caching with WP Rocket
4:28 What caching does and how it helps
5:45 Fine-tuning cache settings and exceptions
7:00 Step 2: Optimize images with WP Rocket + Imagify
8:30 Lazy loading, background images, video iframes, and fonts
10:00 Using next-gen image formats (WebP) and resizing
12:00 Smart compression and saving original images
13:50 Step 3: Minify & combine CSS and JavaScript
15:25 Render-blocking CSS: what it is and how to fix it
16:40 Async and deferred
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