So, I have taken it upon myself against my better judgement to improve the performance of my friend’s site, besides my skills being only tangentially related to the necessary skills (my background is in servers/infrastructure only).
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Unfortunately I am afraid that in the end I will be limited by the design/construction of the site at some point, as apparently performance was not really considered when designing it and I have no proficient skills in the design/development area to fiddle with it right now.
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The site is hosted on the simplest Hostinger plan, I believe it’s called Single Web Hosting. There is no dynamic functionality and it’s mostly a static site, where the blog gets updated each week or so with a new article.
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So I have been doing the basics, removing unecessary stuff, optimized Hostinger PHP configurations, installed LSCache for dynamic cache, configured QUIC for the free optimizations it provides (but not the CDN), and now configured Cloudflare free tier as well for static resources (albeit only with Cloudflare Panel configuration, not in any plugin as of yet).
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All of these have already made quite a substantial impact on performance. But I still have some doubts:
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\- Should I configure Cloudflare on the API section of the LSCache? Why or why not?
\- Should I configure CDN mapping on the LSCache plugin? Why or why not?
\- Should I install the Cloudflare plugin? Why or why not?
\- Do any of the previous conflict with each other?
\- Is there any more low hanging fruits I can use to improve performance? Install a cache warmer plugin? Upgrade the Hostinger plan?
\- Besides the low hanging fruits, what else can I do that I haven’t thought about?
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Thank you for your time and knowledge.
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