Title: Quick boosting tips?
Last modified: August 20, 2024

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# Quick boosting tips?

 *  Resolved [jmkennedy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jmkennedy/)
 * (@jmkennedy)
 * [1 year, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/quick-boosting-tips/)
 * Hi!
 * I have installed Autoptimize. I can see in the sources loaded that it’s active.
   It seems to be helping a little bit, though I don’t see a _huge_ difference in
   Page speed insights performance. Are there any particular settings you recommend
   I should do, to get the best result out of it?
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fquick-boosting-tips%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
 * (@optimizingmatters)
 * [1 year, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/quick-boosting-tips/#post-17964965)
 * I had a look at the site and [a pagespeed insights report (m:77,d:96)](https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-ronnbergs-se/1jxxk6gyke?utm_source=psi&utm_medium=redirect&form_factor=mobile);
 * 1. I would not inline all CSS, as that makes the HTML a lot more bulky. Although
   the CSS does not have to be downloaded and thus it is not render-blocking, have
   such a big blob of CSS results in some performance loss when compared to the 
   more lean approach of using above the fold/ critical CSS.
 * 2. Additionally the LCP image is slower then it should be because it is a CSS
   background image which is discovered relatively late by browsers and the download
   of which will have a low-ish priority. The better approach is having the image
   in an <img tag as that is discovered sooner and (if I remember correctly) loads
   with a somewhat higher priority. Alternatively you can try preloading the image
   by going to the “edit” view of the homepage and in the “autoptimize this page”
   metabox adding the full URL to the image to the “LCP image preload” field and
   saving the page.
 * hope this helps,
    frank
 *  Thread Starter [jmkennedy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jmkennedy/)
 * (@jmkennedy)
 * [1 year, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/quick-boosting-tips/#post-17991395)
 * OK. It seems like the first thing might have helped a bit. About the second one,
   I can’t find this _“autoptimize this page” metabox _. How do I find this please?
 *  Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
 * (@optimizingmatters)
 * [1 year, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/quick-boosting-tips/#post-17991603)
 * assuming you have the “Enable configuration per post/ page?” option near the 
   bottom of Settings -> Autoptimize -> “JS, CSS & HTML” on, you should be able 
   to see that metabox on the edit page of the page/ post in question jmkennedy ?
 *  Thread Starter [jmkennedy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jmkennedy/)
 * (@jmkennedy)
 * [1 year, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/quick-boosting-tips/#post-17991939)
 * Oh, ok. Found it know. Maybe it could say that it’s for Autoptimize. Could make
   it easier to find. 😉
 * Didn’t seem to make much different for Pagespeed numbers though. Is there something
   else I can do with Autoptimize to improve LCP time?
 *  Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
 * (@optimizingmatters)
 * [1 year, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/quick-boosting-tips/#post-17992284)
 * well, the fact the main image is a CSS background image defined in `wp-content/
   et-cache/2/et-core-unified-tb-205524-deferred-2.min.css` has some important performance
   disadvantages.
 * the preload is a way to limit the impact somewhat, but:
    1. Divi is loading that
   file late, so the image will always be discovered late by the browser -> no loading
   that file late OR also defining the background image in some inline CSS would
   help. 2. the image isn’t “seen” by AO and hence not loaded via the Shortpixel
   CDN so not optimized -> You could change the image URL in Divi Builder to point
   to the URL on shortpixel maybe?
 * the best solution however, would be not to load such an important image as CSS
   background image 🙂

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