Hummingbird is a powerful optimization tool that helps you improve the performance and speed of your website. It’s designed to make your site faster, more efficient, and more streamlined, so you can provide a better experience for your visitors. With Hummingbird, you can easily optimize and minify your code, and more, all from one convenient dashboard. Whether you’re a beginner or an advanced user, Hummingbird is an essential plugin for anyone looking to improve their website’s performance.
Asset Optimization
Hummingbird Asset Optimization is a feature of the Hummingbird WordPress plugin that enables you to optimize and minify your website’s CSS, JavaScript, and HTML files. This helps to reduce the size of your files, which in turn speeds up the loading time of your pages. The feature also includes the ability to defer and async loading of JavaScript files which can improve the loading time of your pages. Additionally, it provides a way to combine multiple CSS and JavaScript files into a single file which can further reduce the number of requests made by the browser and improve the loading time.
The manual mode of asset optimization is a highly favoured feature of the Hummingbird plugin. It offers the flexibility of choosing which files to combine or move to the footer, giving you complete control over optimizing your website to its full potential without compromising any of its features. WPMUDEV provides a comprehensive guide for this, which can be found here.
Hummingbird CDN
Hummingbird’s CDN (Content Delivery Network) feature is a way to improve the loading speed of your website by delivering static assets from a network of servers located around the world, rather than from a single server. By using a CDN, your website’s content is served from a server that is closer to the user, resulting in faster loading times. With the CDN feature, you can also choose which files should be delivered via the CDN and specify a custom hostname for the files.
Other notable features
WooCommerce utilizes ajax requests to keep the cart totals up-to-date without requiring a full page refresh. However, these ajax calls run on every page, leading to a significant slowing of the page load times. Hummingbird offers the option to turn off WooCommerce cart fragments, which can enhance the performance of your WordPress store.
Using the native WordPress comment system to load a large number of comments can greatly slow down the speed of your pages. Hummingbird allows you to lazy-load comments to mitigate this issue.
Wrapping up
In conclusion, the Hummingbird WordPress plugin is a comprehensive solution for optimizing and speeding up your website. With its various features, such as Asset Optimization, CDN, and the option to lazy-load comments, it provides a range of tools for improving the performance and speed of your website. Finally, it is worth mentioning that the support provided by WPMUDEV is exceptional, even in the free WordPress forum, which is incredible.
You can download the plugin from WordPress repo here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/hummingbird-performance/
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