solutions to improve website performance
An almost parsimonious management of external resources can greatly help improve overall performance, but if this is not possible, we will have to take cover with the technical solutions that we are going to see now .
1. Work on Resource Caching
Allowing specific and thoughtful storage of the resources on our site is one of the resolutions we can adopt to increase performance on the projects we manage. As already mentioned above, it is a strategy that obviously works from the second time the same user decides to visit the content we publish, but on sites/blogs/forums created specifically to generate traffic with a more or less large return of users, it is a decidedly effective strategy.
How can we do it?
Speaking of CMS , there are various options through the use of some plugins, including for example for WordPress (which is among the most used systems) WP Rocket , WP3 Total Cache or even Fast Velocity Minify . The the usage of instagram database plugins are easy to install and use, but the biggest recommendation is to always prepare a backup of the entire structure before proceeding , since we cannot know regardless and precisely where the new scripts will impact and if they will adequately influence everything.
If we do not have a CMS, however, we can use the safest system that works with any type of solution with which the work was carried out, that is, modifying the specifications of the .htaccess file (yes, that's what it's called) inside the root (main folder) of our web space. We are talking about a configuration file related to the Web Server, which is used (also) to enable or disable very specific functions related to the manipulation of general resources, including the cache release times to be used for each individual type of content.
NB: the .htaccess file can also be manipulated on CMS, if we are able to do so. By modifying this type of file, we can, for example, communicate to the user's browser not to download a certain type of resource again for a pre-established time, identifying the one in question based on its extension. This control is essential to better manage the structure, without having to re-download everything that can remain unchanged over time, such as style sheets , JavaScript files or images .