If a website is slow or poorly made, it won’t get a good position in search results. If a page takes more than a few seconds to load, many people will close the tab/site and find a website that’s not so slow.
There are many factors that effect speed.
- The server itself needs to be fast
- The server also needs to support cache engines
- A caching system needs to be in place on the website application and be properly set up
- JavaScript should be minimal and loaded only as needed
- Images need to be optimized for small file size and converting them to webp is good practice
This website used to have a fairly heavy weight theme yet even then I got good speed/optimization scores. I’m now using an fse theme for use with the WordPress beta feature of fse – full site editing.
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and another (WordPress part of the site)
and another (TNG Genealogy web app part of the site)
and another (webtrees part of the site) (family tree database with 10,000 descendants in the database)
