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Speed up your WordPress site with one-click optimizations like Page Cache, Critical CSS, and Image CDN to improve Core Web Vitals.
Jetpack Boost is a WordPress plugin designed to enhance website speed and performance through one-click optimizations. It focuses on improving Core Web Vitals, which are essential for better search engine rankings and user experience. The plugin includes various performance modules that help optimize CSS loading, cache pages, and manage JavaScript, among other features.
This plugin is suitable for website owners looking to improve their site's loading speed and overall performance without needing extensive technical knowledge. It is particularly beneficial for those aiming to enhance their SEO and reduce bounce rates by providing a smoother user experience.
Best for: Website owners seeking to improve speed and performance for better SEO and user engagement.
What it does well
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Jetpack Boost provides a straightforward solution for enhancing WordPress site performance. Its focus on Core Web Vitals makes it a practical choice for those looking to optimise their website effectively.
Automattic's own description of Jetpack Boost, lightly tidied.
Speed up your WordPress site by optimizing page performance with Jetpack Boost. Easily activate one-click optimizations to boost your Core Web Vitals.
Did you know that a faster website:-
Increase your website performance and speed up your website with one-click optimizations that supercharge your WordPress site’s performance and improve core web vitals scores for better search engine listings.
Improving Core Web Vitals helps you rank higher on Google. A faster website also improves your SEO, helps you reduce your bounce rate and increase your ecommerce conversion rate.
Optimize your website with the same techniques used on the world’s most successful websites.
Each technique that is used to increase website performance is packaged up as a module that you can activate and try out.
Currently, the plugin has 6 performance modules available:
Optimize CSS Loading generates Critical CSS for your homepage, posts and pages. This can allow your content to show up on the screen much faster, particularly for viewers using mobile devices.
Read more about critical CSS generation at web.dev
Page Cache speeds up your site by saving pages as static files. These files are quickly served to visitors, reducing load times and enhancing user experience.
Defer Non-Essential JavaScript moves some tasks to after the page loads, so that important visual information can be seen sooner and your website loads quicker.
Image Guide is a must-have feature for anyone who wants to optimize the images on their website. With this guide, you can ensure that the images on your site are the right size and dimensions, which is critical for improving user experience, page speed, and site ranking. Following the tips and best practices outlined in the guide, you can reduce image file sizes and speed up your site. Check out our support page to learn more about this feature and how it can help you achieve a faster and smoother website experience for your users.
Image CDN allows your site to serve automatically-resized images in modern web formats directly from Jetpack’s worldwide Content Delivery Network.
Concatenate and Minify CSS and JS combines and shrinks your JavaScript and CSS resources to reduce the number and size of requests to your server, ensuring your content loads faster.
Don’t want to have to manually generate your critical CSS each time you update your site? Let us do the heavy lifting for you with automated critical CSS – each time you update your site we will automatically regenerate your critical CSS and update your performance scores. Upgrading also gives you dedicated email support access.
This is just the start!
We are working hard to bring more features and improvements to Jetpack Boost. Let us know your thoughts and ideas!
We’d also like to give a special THANK YOU to the XWP team who provided help with initial research and scoping of the plugin and were engaged with our team throughout the project.
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