Everyone wants a faster website. With Google using loading speed as one of the primary metrics for ranking in search results, the faster your website, the better. It also just makes for a better user experience. However, making sure that your site is running that quickly can be a lot of work. Thanks to WPMU DEV, making your website faster may take less effort and time than you may think because of their performance-optimization plugins WP Smush and Hummingbird. In this article we’ll show you what happened when we took a Divi portfolio site on shared hosting and added the optimizing powers of these plugins.
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