Some tips for starting to care about your site& #39;s loading speed:

1. Use a CDN. Sign up to CloudFlare, read their tutorials, and do it. The performance improvements will be immense.

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2. Once you& #39;ve added a CDN, enable GZIP compression.

On some CDNs it& #39;ll just be a checkbox labelled "enable compression".

It& #39;ll roughly half the size of the files your users need to download to use your website.

3. Find ways to minimise the number of requests your site makes when initially loading (but also in general)

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