This site was very slow when it first launched it, but, after lots of tweaking, I found a set of plugins and settings which made it much faster. If you have a slow Flothemes photography website built with Flothemes this video is a must watch.
“Thanks so much. My load time has been reduced from 9 seconds to under 3!!”
“..lazyloading was clearly a blessing, I’m at 1.44s now .. for a 5MB so happy thanks again :-)”
“…went from low 50% to 94% on Pingdom, and 94% / 89% on GTmetrix. :-)”
Video Walkthrough
Plugins Used
Speed Tests
Be Careful
Please be careful if you already use other speed optimizations or you run lots of script plugins, they can conflict with Autoptimize as it breaks the ‘order’ they’re supposed to load. If you’re having trouble, try using Better WordPress Minify. Like anything, if you don’t know what you’re doing, please make sure you have backed up your website!
Thanks so much for taking the time to share this. It’s early days so I’m not yet sure if I’ve inadvertently caused an error or conflict by adding the plugins…but after step 2 (WP Fastest Cache) I’d more than halved my load speed! Strangely, once I installed a3 Lazy Load though, it shot right back up again, higher than where it initially started! Weird. Might have to disable that third plugin but I appreciate your tips regardless. Thank you!
Worked Brilliantly! Thank you so much!