Apply the 10 big boo-boos decimating mobile WordPress speed.
- Use fancy decorative Google fonts. Don’t use a mobile font stack.
REFERENCE: https://pagepipe.com/zero-latency-fonts-for-mobile-speed-system-ui-font/
- Use a slider on your home page. And just for giggles add another but different slider to your product pages.
- Use lots of metric-type plugins including HotJar and Google Analytics.
REFERENCE: https://pagepipe.com/how-does-google-analytics-affect-mobile-page-speed/
REFERENCE: https://pagepipe.com/hotjar-adds-500-milliseconds-to-mobile-speed/
- Choose a host from a biased affiliate review site. Don’t test TTFB of the server before signing up.
REFERENCE: https://pagepipe.com/find-out-what-your-server-ttfb-really-is/
REFERENCE: https://pagepipe.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/hosting-master-v3.3-opt.pdf
- Add any Live Chat plugin or service.
REFERENCE: https://pagepipe.com/dumping-livechat-for-speed/
- Put in a heavy globally-loading form plugin.
REFERENCE: https://pagepipe.com/do-lightweight-form-plugins-even-exist/
- Add a heavy and popular security plugin that writes frequently to the server htaccess file.
REFERENCE: https://pagepipe.com/free-discrete-plugins-replace-bloated-security-plugins/
- Use a pagebuilder — any pagebuilder.
REFERENCE: https://pagepipe.com/imitate-elementor-with-gutenberg-block-editor-and-be-faster/
- Use a heavy theme like Divi.
REFERENCE: https://pagepipe.com/switch-from-divi-theme-to-astra-for-best-speed/
- Add popups.
REFERENCE: https://pagepipe.com/top-hello-bar-knockoff-plugins-for-speed/
REFERENCE: https://pagepipe.com/faster-and-free-alternative-to-optinmonster-wordpress-plugin/
Anyone can ruin mobile user experience with lack of discipline.
Before adding plugins to your site, ask yourself, will this cool plugin make me rich or famous?
Godspeed-
Steve Teare
performance engineer
May 2022
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- Hosting
- Theme
- Plugins
- Scripts and third-party services.
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- We minimize globally loading plugin effects.
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