@iamdandavies

If you build WordPress websites for a living, then WP Rocket is one of those plugins that can turn you into a rockstar with your clients. One of the easiest ways to make a WordPress website instantly feel more professional is to make it load faster. This is why WP Rocket is the only plugin I use on client sites to improve speed and performance.

Gives you one simple dashboard to manage things like caching, file optimization, lazy loading, preloading, and a lot of the other performance jobs that normally slow a WordPress website down. What I love about it is that you don't need to turn speed optimization into some massive technical project. You can start simple, test as you go, and build up the settings properly.

Start at the top, enabling the settings one by one, and then test the front end. If all's looking good, then you can test your performance results using their brand new built-in Rocket Insights feature.

I took a site this week from 32 out of 100 to 100 out of 100, and now it's lightning fast. I made a blog and a YouTube video walking through the whole thing step by step. I'll drop links to them in the comments if anyone's interested.

So one quick word of warning, I wouldn't blindly turn everything on and then just hope it works. Especially anything JavaScript related, cause that can sometimes break your site.

The key thing is is to never panic if anything looks broken, just revert the setting that you've just done. Or you can add that section to the exclude box.

So if I ever have to speed up a client's WordPress website, then WP Rocket is by far the easiest tool that I've used to achieve that.