Search engines care about how quickly your website loads. It impacts how long users stay on your site and how helpful you are being to the interweb.
Here are a couple tools to make a quick improvement on your site speed YMMV.
Smush Image Optimization
This WordPress plugin optimizes images on a website.
- Locates images that slow down the site
- compresses, resizes and optimizes without affecting image quality
- Free to use
- Completely automated, install and enjoy
Autoptimize
Another great tool is Autoptimize. This WordPress plugin optimizes scripts and HTML code.
- compresses scripts and styles
- minifies HTML code
- moves styles to the page head
- moves scripts to the footer
- Makes a page much more lightweight
- Free to use
- Completely automated, install and enjoy
