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Ask HN: Can I Optimise the load time of your Wordpress Site for Free?

7 points by adzeds ↗ HN
I am in the process of launching a new service where I help Wordpress users speed up the load times of their site...

I want to get some work to add to my portfolio so am looking for people that will let me optimise their sites for free, well, in exchange for a review/testimonial..

Anyone interested in this?

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drrob
I'll bite, how do you want to get in touch to discuss?
adzeds
Thanks for the interest...

If you drop me an email to: david@blogoptimisation.com

Let me know your Wordpress Site URL that you would like me to take a look at.

I will then perform an audit for you and identify how much I can do to help you and I can then provide you with a list of changes to make to speed up the site.... Or I can go in and do the optimisations for you if easier..

tenismyanswer
Install wp-cache?
adzeds
That will get you some gains, but there is a lot more that can be done to get your site to load in less than 0.5 secs
tenismyanswer
Cool. Try warrior forum.com for your testimonials. Once you have the testimonials you could sell it as a wso (their marketplace). A big market there for this as Wordpress is popular. Although those people expect a big hyped up sales page to convince them to buy!
adzeds
Thanks for the tip... I will take a look at that!
tmaly
I am curious if you are doing anything to optimize featured image using css media queries? This is something that I would want.

I have a few a wordpress sites, and I use wp super cache which helps with speed, but I still think its a waist of bandwidth to have to download the same featured image size on mobile as on desktop.

adzeds
This is something that I look to optimise...

Mobile site speed is growing in importance and this is something that I get asked to look at a lot..

If you want to drop me and email with your details I can take a look and make some recommendations for you?

tmaly
I have two sites I wrote in Go that have hand coded templates. I am thinking about moving more in this direction. I have gotten a bit frustrated with WordPress lately as I cannot get the level of control I would prefer to have.
adzeds
Thanks for all the interest everyone..

Got a nice selection of emails and am going through them to optimise them... Will post the results up in here!