Who does not want a fast website? We all want a website that runs as fast as possible because we always want the information now. If you have a slow site, chances are your potential readers will look somewhere else instead of waiting for your website to load properly. Having a fast website will also have a positive effect on your rankings, although it does depend on search engines such as Google on how much the speed can be a contributing factor.
We have listed down the plugins you can use to boost your website’s loading speed. You can reduce the size of your photos, remove unused plugins, and manage the loading of scripts on your website. You can also use WordPress caching plugins and lazy loading plugings to further improve your site speed. We will discuss deferring JavaScript for WordPress in this post.
Majority of website owners use various JavaScript codes in their sites. Your website can run faster when you use deferred JavaScript codes. Deferring JavaScript has the same exact effect of moving all your JavaScript code to the bottom of the page. This will make sure all other elements on the page will be executed first. We’ve listed down three Deferred JavaScript plugins for better performance. Here they are:
Performance Optimizer Plugin
This plugin optimizes features in your site’s loading process such as your database and .htaccess to boost loading speed and limit bandwidth consumption. Its other features include a cache system, lazy load for images, JavaScript files optimization, automatic minifying of css files, and more.
jsDelivr
This plugin boosts your site performance with its CDN service. You website will get automatic integration with jsDelivr’s CDN without changing your codes or URL searching. It can also move your selected files to footer and apply Async/Defer loading to your JavaScripts.
Social Media with deferred Javascript
This plugin addresses an important concern with websites – slow social buttons. With its deferred JavaScript, you can have your social buttons on your website without slowing down its performance.
Keep in mind that while these plugins can help improve your website’s performance, they do not offer total solutions. If you choose to do so, you can implement deferred JavaScript manually to your site. While going the manual route will mean some work for you, you will get more control over the scripts in your site. I leave the choice to you.
