Title: Slow Website Tutorial
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Slow Website Tutorial

 *  [NiallDarwin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nialldarwin/)
 * (@nialldarwin)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/slow-website-tutorial/)
 * I’m sure this should exist already but after some searching I haven’t found it.
 * Is there a tutorial / step by step guide to optimising a WP install for speed?
 * My site [piwiwiwi.co.nz](http://piwiwiwi.co.nz) is drastically slow and various
   friends / techies give me all types of conflicting advice. These forums offer
   lots of little bits of useful advice but has anyone tried to summarise it into
   a ‘Try these 10 things first’ or similar?
 * Thanks, N 🙂

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 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/slow-website-tutorial/#post-3051554)
    - Try to replace `.jpg` images with `.png`
    - Move JavaScript to the footer, perhaps with a [plugin](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/footer-javascript/)
 *  [vgvetter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vgvetter/)
 * (@vgvetter)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/slow-website-tutorial/#post-3051583)
 * Checked you out at [http://www.webpagetest.org](http://www.webpagetest.org) ..
   For a Wellington NZ location using IE9, they report initial load at 18.2 seconds…
   For LA, initial load time was 11.8 secs.
 * From either location, WPT report gives you an A on image compression, but you
   flunked “First Byte” time (whatever that means) and Static Content caching, but
   have not had enough experience with either to be of any help.
 * WPTest nay give you a starting point…Cool site by the way.

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 * [speed](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/speed/)

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/slow-website-tutorial/#post-3051583)
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