Hummingbird Performance

Hummingbird makes your website faster and optimizes site performance by adding new ways to boost Google PageSpeed Insights with fine-tuned controls over file compression, deferring CSS and JavaScript styles and scripts, minify for CSS and JS, Lazy Load integration, and world-class caching.

Hummingbird is brought to you by the WordPress speed specialists that created Smush image optimization, now active on more than +1 million websites. Get the complete speed boost with Hummingbird and Smush.

Enjoy top-tier performance and PageSpeed optimization from the start with Hummingbird Pro.

Level up immediately with exclusive Pro features like Delay JavaScript Execution, Critical CSS Generation, Brotli file compression, and 119-point global asset CDN with unlimited bandwidth. Learn more about Pro.

If PageSpeed Insights is making these speed recommendations Hummingbird can help:

• Enable text compression – Use gzip to make your site fly (Brotli Compression via CDN included with Pro).
• Preconnect to required origins – Use Hummingbird to establish earlier connections.
• Preload key requests – Prioritize resources based on order.
• Avoid enormous network payloads – Consider Lazy Load for comments or breaking up smaller posts.
• Use efficient cache – The Hummingbird Cache suite offers effective browser cache for caching any site.
• Fix your JavaScript execution time – Deliver smaller JS payloads, preload JS, and defer JS.
• Minify CSS – Strip unused code from your CSS.
• Minify JavaScript – Speed up the time it takes to parse your JS files.
• Eliminate render-blocking resources – Move critical CSS and JS inline and defer all non-critical JS/CSS.
• Delay JavaScript execution (Pro only) – Increase performance by delaying the loading of non-critical JS files and scripts until user interaction.
• Automatically generate Critical CSS (Pro only) – Substantially boost page speed and UX by prioritizing above-the-fold content.
• Defer unused CSS – Defer the loading of CSS not used for above-the-fold content.
• Lazy Load offscreen images (Smush free integration).

Hummingbird scans your site and provides one-click fixes to speed up WordPress in a flash.

You’ll get faster loading pages, higher search rankings (SERP) and PageSpeed scores, and happier visitors with Hummingbird’s WordPress speed optimization. Optimizing the speed of your site has never been easier!

Features Available in Hummingbird Include:

• Scan and Fix – Get a scan of your site, find out what’s slowing it down, and use one-click performance improvements to make critical speed improvements.
• World-class caching – A full caching suite to load pages faster with full-page, Gravatar, and browser cache tool.
• Performance Reports – Pro tips for running your site at super speed.
• Asset Optimization – Combine, compress and position Javascript, CSS, and Google Font files for top performance.
• Safe Mode — Test Hummingbird settings without affecting your visitors’ experience, only logged-in admins see the optimized version.
• Better Rankings – Improve scores on Google PageSpeed Insights (SEO ranking factor), YSlow, Pingdom, and GTmetrix.
• Increase Your Conversion Rate – Don’t keep visitors waiting: faster sites convert better.
• GZIP Compression – Blazing-fast HTML, JavaScript, and stylesheet (CSS) transfer.
• Configs – Set your preferred performance settings, save them as config, and instantly upload to any other site.
• Font Optimization – Improve site speed, Core Web Vitals, and visual stability by preloading critical fonts and enabling fallbacks.
• Uptime Monitoring & Alerts – Get instant notifications if your site ever goes down.
• Scheduled Performance Reports – Stay on top of site speed with regular insights.

Learn The Ropes With These Hands-On Hummingbird Tutorials

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Hummingbird Features to Speed Up WordPress

Scan and One-Click Fix

Hummingbird is a WordPress speed optimization plugin. It will scan your site, find files that are slowing it down, and provide tips and fixes for making your site run at top speed.

Hummingbird even has one-click improvements like a full cache suite, one-click minify for styles and scripts, and deferring CSS and JS for quickly optimizing performance. What could be easier!

Read the full description on the official page →