WPSpeed Pro is the easiest plugin to speed up your WordPress site.

The WPSpeed plugin for WordPress increases performance of your website by applying automatically several improvements as suggested by Google PageSpeed best practices.

It is very simple, you just have to install WPSpeed plugin and you can reach up to a doubled score during the Google PageSpeed test.

WPSpeed functionalities include:

•Scripts minification: Javascript can be minified to reduce the total scripts size and save bandwidth
•Stylesheets minification: CSS can be minified to reduce the total CSS size and save bandwidth
•HTML minification: The HTML source code can be minified to reduce the total page size and save bandwidth
•Combine multiple JS and CSS files: Javascript and CSS can be combined in single files to minimize the HTTP request overhead
•Adaptive Contents™: this technology makes it possible to generate a lightweight version of the website to raise up the page speed score without losing website functionalities
•Instant Page technology™: Instant Page uses just-in-time preloading. This feature, compatible with both desktop and mobile devices, preloads a page right before a user clicks on it
•Auto configuration and integrated Google PageSpeed: The plugin is capable to find the optimal configuration automatically and integrates the Google PageSpeed test
•Page cache: Integrated and optimized technology for page caching to avoid heavy requests to your server and database. WPSpeed supports the .htaccess page caching so that pages are served up as static HTML completely bypassing the execution of WordPress and dramatically increases performance
•Defer and preload of assets: CSS, JS and Web Fonts can be loaded in defer, async or preload mode
•Lazy-load images: Images and iframes that are out of view can be lazy-loaded only when the user scrolls down the page to display them
•Lazy-load HTML elements: Heavy HTML elements that slow down the LCP can be easily lazy-loaded
•Images optimization: Large images can be rescaled, resized and optimized on the fly to dramatically reduce the page size and bandwidth
•Optimization of background images: WPSpeed is capable to optimize also images that are set as a background through HTML and CSS styles
•Lossless optimization: Large images in PNG and JPG format can be optimized on the fly using a lossless algorithm
•Srcset creation for images: WPSpeed is capable to automatically create an image srcset using up to 4 differently-sized images for various resolutions
•Images conversion to WebP: Images can be converted in realtime to the WebP next generation format
•Assets removal: It’s possible to remove CSS/JS files and Fonts to avoid the loading of unnecessary resources
•Htaccess optimization: A series of optimizations can be applied to the htaccess file in order to leverage the browser caching
•CSS extraction: WPSpeed is capable to extract basic CSS styles and load them above the fold to avoid render blocking resources
•DOM tree reduction: Excessive DOM elements can be automatically removed and loaded asynchronously
•Combine images: It’s possible to generate a single container image for multiple backgrounds applied through CSS
•HTTP/2 optimizations: WPSpeed works with HTTP/2 compatible servers to enable server push
•CDN support: Links for all assets can be automatically rewritten to point to your CDN domain
•Fix conflicts easily: WPSpeed integrates a powerful exclusions system to fix conflicts due to minification of scripts