If I’m using Cloudflare do I need to use WP side plugins for optimization?

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Hi, as title!

I’m a little concerned about the load time of my website, especially the home page.

Am using Cloudflare free account and have selected the basic and recommended settings to optimise. However urgh, got a horrible load time.

Do I need to use any plugin on the WP side, like Rocket? Basic Google website assessment is poor.

Would like the homepage to load fully, fast!

Any suggestions and advice most helpful.

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4 Comments
  1. Share your Page Speed Insights report. CF isn’t a silver bullet – there’ll still be a lot of things you can do on the site, but you need to know what is slow first eg big images, poorly built pages, etc

  2. I have combined cloudflare with WP Rocket for more improvement, but reasons for slowness can be very specific. YSlow analyzer can help reveal underlying causes:

    https://wp-rocket.me/blog/yslow/

    Also note that Cloudflare can take a while for cache and some performance optimizations to take effect.

  3. Cloudflare is not magic. It’s not going to make up a badly set up WP or a bad host.

    Could you share a link to your site and also share your host (and which plan of theirs you’re currently on)

    If you’re on shared hosting, switch to a budget VPS and that could fix alot of your performance issues

  4. Thanks folks! I’m on the road today but will get this report up for analysis!

    Something to do with “render blocking”… And other DOM things. Sorry not knowledgeable enough!

    Agree CF takes some time to do it’s thing!

    Some information:
    Hostinger Cloud Startup.
    Wordpress and WooCommerce.

    What was confusing me is and I wondered whether it can cause issues… Hostinger has it’s own optimisations (CDN, images etc) and then Cloudflare is doing it’s stuff and then I’m considering a plugin on WP, does this cause conflicts?

    Lol I guess I may have to pay someone with expertise at some point to have a look over and implement things in a better way.

    Thank you again!

 

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