If you are looking for ways to speed up your WordPress site, then you are at the right place. Today I’m going to share how to increase WordPress speed using Clearfy WordPress plugin. By following this step-by-step guide, you can speed up your WordPress site even if you’re not a WordPress specialist or a techie. Let’s dive in…
Speed is a very important aspect of any blog or website. If your site takes longer to load, the result:
- Visitors will immediately exit from your site.
- Fewer page views.
- Loss in conversions.
- Create a bad user experience.
- Increase bounce rate.
- … And many more.
In addition, speed is one of the Google ranking factors, which means faster loading websites get better rank in the search result.
So, in this guide, I am going to share Clearfy plugin settings with you. The main goal of the Clearfy plugin is to make your WordPress site fast and secure.
Brief Descriptions of The Content
Why You Should Use Clearfy Plugin
Clearfy is a WordPress optimization plugin and disables bloats from your site. This plugin comes with tons of settings and better optimize and secure your WordPress website.
It includes the following features:
- Disable RSS Feeds
- Disable Rest API
- Disable Emojis
- Remove jQuery Migrate
- Disable Embeds
- Remove dns-prefetch
- Remove RSD link
- Remove wlwmanifest Link
- Remove Shortlink
- Remove Previous/Next Post Link in HEAD
- Remove .recentcomments Styles
- Minify Html
- Minify HTML, Javascript and CSS
… and many more.
How to Configure Clearfy Plugin Settings
First, install and activate the Clearfy plugin in your site. Once activated, click on Settings >> Clearfy. This will take you to the plugin settings page.
So now let’s start configuring Clearfy settings …
Quick start
Quick start options activate the groups of necessary settings in one click. It enables only safe settings that do not break your website. But the plugin recommends you to look at each setting individually.
PERFORMANCE
This settings remove unnecessary links and code from the head section, as well as reduce your website’s pages weight.
In the screenshot above, I have checked the following boxes:
- Disable RSS feeds
- Disable Emojis
- Disable Embeds
- Remove RSD Link
- Removing XFN (XHTML Friends Network) Profile Link
- Remove wlwmanifest Link
- Remove Shortlink
- Remove links to previous, next post
- Remove .recentcomments styles
- Font Awesome asynchronous
- Disable Dashicons
- Disable Gravatars
- Remove Version from Script (Recommended)
- Remove Version from Stylesheet (Recommended)
Minify (Html/JS/CSS)
This setting optimizes your site’s Html / JS / CSS file. Just follow the screenshot below:
Above I have checked the following boxes:
- Optimize HTML Code?
- Optimize JavaScript Code?
- Aggregate JS-files?
- Optimize CSS Code?
- Aggregate CSS-files?
- Also aggregate inline CSS?
Google services
SEO
It provides basic SEO optimization settings. Here I have published the ultimate guide on WordPress SEO Tips
Above I have checked the settings:
- Automatically set the alt attribute (Recommended)
- Remove duplicate names in breadcrumbs WP SEO by Yoast (Recommended)
- Remove the tag image:image from XML site map (Recommended)
- Remove comment from head section (Recommended)
Duplicate pages
Options I checked:
- Remove archives date
- Remove author archives
- Remove attachment pages
- Remove ?replytocom
COMMENTS
If you want to disable comments on your site, through this plugin you can disable it with one click. Apart from this, it also provides you the option to disable comments for specific post types (Post, Page and Media).
Its comments clearing tools delete all comments in your database with one click and has an option for cleaning spam and trash comments with a single click.
UPDATES
This setting page enable or disable automatic updates. Although updating is a good thing, it makes your site more secure. But I don’t recommend for automatic updates. Whenever a plugin or theme gets an update, do it manually.
… so leave this setting the default.
DEFENCE
You will need to install the plugin for Malware Scanner, Firewall and Hide login page.
ADVANCED
However, you can enable and disable the option of this settings page according to your needs. In the widget section, you can disable unused widgets: Calendar, Tag Cloud, Archives, Meta etc.
Congratulations!You have successfully configured Clearfy Plugin Settings.
Proper Clearfy settings greatly reduce your website weight and improve the website loading speed.
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