A2 Optimized WP – Turbocharge and secure your WordPress site vs Jetpack Boost – Website Speed, Performance and Critical CSS

Boosting performance and securing your WordPress site has never been easier with the A2 Optimized WP plugin from A2 Hosting. Get customized desktop and mobile performance scores for your site, including: Server speed (Time to First Byte) Page load speed (Largest Contentful Paint) User perception (First Contentful Paint) Visual stability (Cumulative Layout Shift) Website browser speed (First Input Delay) Using these scores, A2 Optimized WP generates specific, personalized recommendations for improving your site: Performance Security Best practices compliance With just a few clicks you’ll give your WordPress site the boost it needs with stable, industry-proven optimizations and improvements. Vulnerability disclosure program Performance optimizations Our plugin is optimized to work best in the A2 Hosting environment, so items marked with an asterisk (*) are only available for sites hosted at A2 Hosting. If you are not an A2 Hosting customer, join today! Page caching * Allows site visitors to save copies of your web pages on their device or browser. When they return to your website in the future, your site files load faster. * This optimization improves Time to First Byte (TTFB) and reduces bandwidth usage. Gzip compression * Turns on Gzip compression to make text files smaller. * This optimization improves Time to First Byte (TTFB) and reduces bandwidth usage. Redis object caching (*) * Stores commonly used elements such as menus, widgets, and database sets in memory. * This optimization improves Time to First Byte (TTFB). Minify HTML pages * Removes extra spaces, tabs, comments, and line breaks from HTML pages. * This optimization improves First Contentful Paint (FCP) and First Input Delay (FID). Automatic database optimizations * Periodically cleans MySQL databases of expired transients (a type of cached data used in WordPress) as well as trashed and spam comments. Also optimizes database tables. * This optimization improves Time to First Byte (TTFB) for uncached pages. Compress images on upload (*) * Automatically compresses images when they are uploaded to your site. * This optimization improves First Contentful Paint (FCP), Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), and First Input Delay (FID). Turbo Web Hosting (*) *Takes advantage of A2 Hosting’s Turbo Web Hosting platform to provide faster serving of static files, pre-compiled .htaccess files for improved performance, PHP opcode caching, and more. *This optimization can improve multiple benchmarks. Use system cron instead of WordPress cron (*) * Replaces the WordPress virtual “cron job” with a genuine, system-defined cron job. * This optimization reduces the load on WordPress and ensures scheduled tasks run at precise, correct intervals. Minify inline CSS and JavaScript * Removes extra spaces, tabs, comments, and line breaks from inline CSS and JavaScript. * This optimization improves First Contentful Paint (FCP) and First Input Delay (FID). Disable WooCommerce AJAX Cart Fragments * Disables WooCommerce AJAX Cart Fragments on your homepage and enables the “redirect to cart page” option. * This optimization improves WooCommerce performance. Security optimizations Our plugin is optimized to work best in the A2 Hosting environment, so items marked with an asterisk (*) are only available for sites hosted at A2 Hosting. If you are not an A2 Hosting customer, join today! Lock editing of plugins and themes from wp-admin * Prevents misuse of built-in editing capabilities for the WordPress admin. Change login URL (*) * Changes the login page URL from the default wp-login.php to a random URL. * Helps prevent bots from brute-force attacking your login page. Add CAPTCHA for comments and login (*) * Adds a CAPTCHA to comment forms and login pages to deter bots from posting spam comments and running brute-force attacks.. Block unauthorized XML-RPC requests * Rejects XML-RPC requests except for whitelisted services, such as Jetpack. Deny direct access to configuration files * Displays a “403 Forbidden” error when visitors or bots try to access WordPress configuration files. Best practices recommendations Regenerate wp-config salts * Generates new values for wp-config.php salts and security keys for increased security. Recent post limit *Checks the number of recent posts per page, which should be less than 15 for most sites. RSS post limit * Checks the number of posts in RSS feeds, which should be less than 20 for most sites. Recent posts showing on home page * Checks whether the home page displays recent posts, and offers to use a static page instead for faster performance. Permalink structure * Checks that the permalink structure is configured to fully optimize page caching and get additional SEO benefits. Unused themes * Checks if there are any non-default, unused themes that should be deleted. Inactive plugins * Checks if there are any inactive plugins that should be deleted. Hosted with A2 Hosting * Checks if your site is hosted with A2 Hosting for faster page load times and more optimizations.

Speed up your WordPress site by optimizing page performance with Jetpack Boost. Easily activate one-click optimizations to boost your Core Web Vitals. Did you know that a faster website:- Ranks higher on Google. Improves bounce rate (people stay on your site for longer). Increases your conversion rate. Increase your website performance and speed up your website with one-click optimizations that supercharge your WordPress site’s performance and improve core web vitals scores for better search engine listings. Improving Core Web Vitals helps you rank higher on Google. A faster website also improves your SEO, helps you reduce your bounce rate and increase your ecommerce conversion rate. Largest Contentful Paint (LCP): Measures loading performance. Improve your LCP and improve your website loading speed. First Input Delay (FID): Measures interactivity. To improve user experience pages should have a low FID. Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS): Measures visual stability. Lowering your CLS helps improve your user experience. Performance Modules Optimize your website with the same techniques used on the world’s most successful websites. Each technique that is used to increase website performance is packaged up as a module that you can activate and try out. Currently, the plugin has 6 performance modules available: Optimize CSS Loading generates Critical CSS for your homepage, posts and pages. This can allow your content to show up on the screen much faster, particularly for viewers using mobile devices. Read more about critical CSS generation at web.dev Page Cache speeds up your site by saving pages as static files. These files are quickly served to visitors, reducing load times and enhancing user experience. Defer Non-Essential JavaScript moves some tasks to after the page loads, so that important visual information can be seen sooner and your website loads quicker. Read more about deferring JavaScript at web.dev Image Guide is a must-have feature for anyone who wants to optimize the images on their website. With this guide, you can ensure that the images on your site are the right size and dimensions, which is critical for improving user experience, page speed, and site ranking. Following the tips and best practices outlined in the guide, you can reduce image file sizes and speed up your site. Check out our support page to learn more about this feature and how it can help you achieve a faster and smoother website experience for your users. Image CDN allows your site to serve automatically-resized images in modern web formats directly from Jetpack’s worldwide Content Delivery Network. Read more about Image CDNs at web.dev Concatenate and Minify CSS and JS combines and shrinks your JavaScript and CSS resources to reduce the number and size of requests to your server, ensuring your content loads faster. Read more about minifying files at web.dev Don’t want to have to manually generate your critical CSS each time you update your site? Let us do the heavy lifting for you with automated critical CSS – each time you update your site we will automatically regenerate your critical CSS and update your performance scores. Upgrading also gives you dedicated email support access. With 💚 by Jetpack This is just the start! We are working hard to bring more features and improvements to Jetpack Boost. Let us know your thoughts and ideas! We’d also like to give a special THANK YOU to the XWP team who provided help with initial research and scoping of the plugin and were engaged with our team throughout the project.