wao.io

<p><a href="https://wao.io/en/?utm_source=wordpressplugin&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=landingpageperfopt" rel="nofollow ugc">wao.io</a> is a free plugin to test loading time and security of your wordpress site.</p>
<h3>Performance Features</h3>
<h3>Image Optimization</h3>
<p>The intelligent image optimization algorithm radically reduces file size without suffering a loss in quality.<br />
You can choose between three levels of image compression.<br />
wao.io optimizes your images by converting the original image into the best matching output format that your customer’s client is capable of rendering.</p>
<h3>Lazy Loading</h3>
<p>Using lazy loading, your images will be loaded only shortly before they are visible to the user.<br />
Preloading image placeholders in the size of the original images will prevent your site’s layout from jumping around.<br />
You decide which placeholder option integrates best in your overall webpage design</p>
<h3>HTTP/2 Upgrade</h3>
<p>Enabling wao.io provides an automatic HTTP/2 upgrade for your website.</p>
<h3>Caching</h3>
<p>Your content will be cached in our optimized varnish cache cluster.<br />
In your personal control center you can clear the cache whenever necessary.</p>
<h3>More Loadtime Optimization Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Head Re-ordering</li>
<li>Legacy Optimization</li>
<li>Code Minification</li>
<li>Ressource Compression</li>
</ul>
<h3>Website Security Features</h3>
<h3>HTTPS/SSL Upgrade</h3>
<p>wao.io provides an automated HTTPS/SSL upgrade for your website. Our powerful rewriting and<br />
redirecting services ensure a smooth transition from HTTP to HTTPS.</p>
<h3>Web Application Firewall</h3>
<p>Using the OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set (CRS) wao.io’s web application firewall provides<br />
protection against many common attack categories, including the OWASP Top Ten.<br />
The firewall will be updated periodically by our security experts.</p>
<h3>Browser Security</h3>
<p>Setting HTTP security headers with wao.io will add yet another layer of security to your website.</p>
<h3>Analytics Controll Panel</h3>
<p><strong>Insights</strong></p>
<p>wao.io provides you with all important metrics that help you understand your customers<br />
and the effectiveness of your marketing measures: unique users, sessions and bounce rate.<br />
You can also monitor the percentage of saved traffic served to your clients.</p>
<p><strong>Health</strong><br />
wao.io shows all health data of your website at a glance:<br />
Load time, page weight, and error rate.</p>


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<p>A lightweight yet powerful image, iframe, and video optimization plugin. Lazy load, preload, and more. No jquery dependency.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Lazy Load</strong> – Lazy loading images, iframes, and videos, using the high performant <code>lazysizes.js</code>. No jquery dependency.</li>
<li><strong>Preload Featured Images</strong> – Automatically preloading featured image from common page/post (homepage, pages except homepage, single post, and woocommerce single product pages).</li>
<li><strong>Use CDN for Images</strong> – HTML rewrite if you want to serve images from your favorite CDN.</li>
<li><strong>Add Missing Image Dimensions</strong> – Add missing width and height attributes from your images.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>New</strong> (since 1.1.1)</p>
<ul>
<li>Add <code>no-lazy</code> and <code>skip-lazy</code> class as default exclude class for lazyloading images.</li>
<li>Enable <code>loading eager</code> to also target <code>no-lazy</code> and <code>skip-lazy</code> class.</li>
<li>Automatically exclude featured image (add <code>no-lazy</code> class) from lazyloading if <code>Preload Featured Images</code> feature is enabled (useful to avoid <code>Largest Contentful Paint image was lazily loaded</code> warning in Google Pagespeed Insights ).</li>
<li>Add <code>webp</code> extension to CDN HTML rewrite regex.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>New</strong> (since 1.0.7)</p>
<ul>
<li>We changed the lazy load library from lozad.js to <strong>lazysizes.js</strong>.</li>
<li>Add field to modify lazysize default configuration. Read the <a href="https://github.com/aFarkas/lazysizes/#js-api---options" rel="nofollow ugc">docs</a>.</li>
<li>Add fields to specify width and height fallback value if the Add Missing Image Dimensions feature failed to get the actual image dimension.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>New</strong> (since 1.0.3)</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Lazy load CSS Background Images</strong> – Load faster by lazy loading background images from the CSS <code>background-image</code> property.  Tested and works well on CSS background image from <code>GenerateBlocks</code>, <code>Elementor</code>, and <code>Oxygen Builder</code>.</li>
<li><strong>Noscript Fallback</strong> – Extra option to use <noscript> fallback for lazy images and iframes.</li>
<li><strong>Add Loading Eager</strong> – Extra option to Automatically add <code>loading=eager</code> to the lazy load excluded list.</li>
</ul>
<p>This plugin only adds 1 extra row in your database. And it will self delete upon uninstalation.</p>
<h3>About Lazysizes</h3>
<p>Lazysizes is highly performant lazy load library, written by Alexander Farkas in pure JS with no dependencies.</p>
<p><strong>Taken from lazysize’s github description</strong>:<br />
<em>High performance and SEO friendly lazy loader for images (responsive and normal), iframes and more, that detects any visibility changes triggered through user interaction, CSS or JavaScript without configuration.</em></p>
<h3>Optimize More!</h3>
<p>Need to optimize more? Try our <a href="https://thinkweb.dev/service/speed-optimization/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Speed Optimization’s Service</a>.</p>
<h3>Other USEFUL PLUGINS TO OPTIMIZE YOUR SITE’S SPEED:</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<p><strong><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/optimize-more/" rel="ugc">Optimize More!</a></strong> – Selectively Optimize your CSS/JS Delivery: Load CSS Asynchronously, Delay CSS and JavaScripts until User Interaction, Preload Critical CSS and JavaScripts, and Remove Unused CSS and JavaScripts Files.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/lazyload-preload-and-more/" rel="ugc">Lazyload, Preload, and more!</a></strong> – A simplified version of this plugin. The plugin size is only around 14kb zipped. Without UI for settings, but you can customize the settings using filters.<br />
The default configuration is the best for optimizing images and other media files to speed up your site (just install and activate it and you’re good to go):</p>
<ul>
<li>lazyload your below the fold images/iframes/videos,</li>
<li>preload your featured images,</li>
<li>and add loading=”eager” to your featured image and all images that have <code>no-lazy</code> or <code>skip-lazy</code> class.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Other USEFUL PLUGIN:</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<p><strong><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/shop-extra/" rel="ugc">Shop Extra</a></strong> – A lightweight plugin to optimize your WooCommerce & Business site: Floating WhatsApp Chat Widget (can be use without WooCommerce), WhatsApp Order Button for WooCommrece, Hide/Disable WooCommerce Elements, WooCommerce Strings Translations, and many more.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/animate-on-scroll/" rel="ugc">Animate on Scroll</a></strong> – Animate any Elements on scroll using the popular AOS JS library simply by adding class names. This plugin helps you integrate easily with AOS JS library to add any AOS animations to WordPress. Simply add the desired AOS animation to your element class name with “aos-” prefix and the plugin will add the corresponding aos attribute to the element tag.</p>
</li>
</ul>


Optimize More! – Images

A lightweight yet powerful image, iframe, and video optimization plugin. Lazy load, preload, and more. No jquery dependency.

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