I have been doing page speed optimization in WordPress for quite long time. I was doing everything manually and combining multiple plugins to achieve best score earlier.
I couldn’t find a solution for unused css at that time and I developed a plugin to solve that problem. And then we had clients and started solving their page speed problems. Now the plugin evolved to be a full page speed optimization plugin. (not going to mention the plugin as this is not a promotional post)
I have been into that plugins development for the past 2 years and still developing features to make it better. We have a small team to handle development and support.
I see most page builders, themes and plugins have improved to perform better in 2024. I would like to learn what is the current trend to optimize page speed? Does that even matter?
All thing equal (good host, performant theme, optimized images, local served fonts, off-site videos…) I prefer to resolve site speed at server level (optimized nginx, memcached, redis, varnish, http/3…).
Anyhow, wish you success with your plugin.