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Boosting performance and securing your WordPress site has never been easier with the A2 Optimized WP plugin from <a href="https://www.a2hosting.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">A2 Hosting</a>. Get customized desktop and mobile performance scores for your site, including:
<ul>
<li>Server speed (Time to First Byte)</li>
<li>Page load speed (Largest Contentful Paint)</li>
<li>User perception (First Contentful Paint)</li>
<li>Visual stability (Cumulative Layout Shift)</li>
<li>Website browser speed (First Input Delay)</li>
</ul>
Using these scores, A2 Optimized WP generates specific, personalized recommendations for improving your site:
<ul>
<li>Performance</li>
<li>Security</li>
<li>Best practices compliance</li>
</ul>
With just a few clicks you’ll give your WordPress site the boost it needs with stable, industry-proven optimizations and improvements.
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<h4>Performance optimizations</h4>
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, <a href="https://www.a2hosting.com" rel="nofollow ugc">join today</a>!
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.
<h4>Security optimizations</h4>
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, <a href="https://www.a2hosting.com" rel="nofollow ugc">join today</a>!
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.
<h4>Best practices recommendations</h4>
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 <a href="https://www.a2hosting.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">A2 Hosting</a> for faster page load times and more optimizations.

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