Optimize and modify your website's parameters
This plugin lets you boost your website’s loading times thanks to our tools: caching, media optimisation, files minification and concatenation…
This plugin was developed by LWS to improve the performance of your website created with WordPress, regardless of the web host you have chosen.
Front-end optimizations
The LWS Optimize plugin allows you to perform several optimizations on the front-end of your WordPress site.
- Minimize your CSS files
- Combine your CSS files
- Preload CSS files
- Minify your JS files
- Combine your JS files
- Postpone the loading of your JavaScript files
- Minify your HTML files
- Disable WordPress emoji support on your site
- Remove unnecessary requests
Medias
Optimize and set up the media of your WordPress site in a few clicks:
- Compress all images
- Convert to WEBP images, a lighter extension than JPG, PNG…
- Reduce the maximum size of an image
- Disable Lazy Loading for all iframe elements
- Disable Lazy Loading for all images
- Force preloading of all audio and video elements
- Force disable preloading for all audio and video elements
- Disable Lazy Loading completely on the site
Caching
- Enable / Disable file caching
- Enable / Disable Memcached
This plugin is pre-installed when ordering one of these LWS webhosts: WordPress hosting, Classic shared web hosting and cPanel hosting
License
Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
Screenshots
LWS Optimize Plugin Home
Front-end Optimizations
Image Optimization
Activation / deactivation of caching systems
Why optimize your WordPress site?
Having a fast site without slowing down must be one of your priorities. A slow site does not please anyone, your visitors may leave it very quickly. A user will not wait more than a few seconds
Does this plugin need any particular web hosting to work?
This plugin can be used with all WordPress websites. However it was designed for LWS web hosting customers. Some features may be inaccessible to users of other servers. Apart from this plugin, LWS hosting offers you many other benefits: free domain, SSL certificate (https), pro emails based on your domain, low prices, premium WordPress themes and plugins…
If you want to host your WordPress site with LWS you can choose one of these solutions:
WordPress hosting
Classic shared web hosting
cPanel hosting
Do you have a valid promo code on recommended web hosting?
Yes, you can enter the coupon code WPEXT15 at checkout (on LWS) to receive an additional 15% discount (cumulative with current promotional offers!)
Where can I get help?
Find out more about LWS Optimize by searching for this keyword on our LWS online help. A free 7 days / 7 support is also available in France when you have ordered a web hosting or other service from LWS. Videos are also published regularly on our YouTube channel.
Do you have any other plugins to recommend?
Other WordPress extensions have been created by LWS :
- LWS Cleaner : Helps you clean your website and giving it a second youth, fast and easily!
- LWS Tools : Get a hold on various tools and options to optimize your website. From deactivating emotes or hiding sensible informations to deactivating REST API!
- LWS Hide Login : Redirect your users if they try to access your admin page directly. Choose your own page and protect your website.
- LWS Affiliation : Easily add banners and widgets such as search domain name availability or a summary table of our web hosting plans on your website.
- LWS SMS : Create SMS templates and configurate your website to send SMS to clients when you want it ! Requires ordering SMS credits
- LWS Cache : This plugin works only on servers using the LWSCache system. This cache is pre-installed with shared web hosting , WordPress hosting, cPanel hosting from LWS.
Useful LWS services to get you started on the web
ChangeLog
2.1.1
- Fixed “is_plugin_active not found” Fatal Error
2.1
- Cache updated
- Memcached can once again be activated
- New Cloudflare integration, to manage CF cache
- New way of checking your website performances with PageSpeed
- New weekly database optimisation
2.0
- New design for the plugin
- Front-End and Medias tabs have been entirely modified and fixed
- Lots of bugs have been fixed, performances gain while using our plugins have been increased
1.9.1
1.9
- Optimised the CSS/JS minifier ; now minify and combine at the same time with better performances gains
- Fixed bugs when minifying CSS, when remvoing Lazy Load globally and when using Memcached
- Memcached has been added back. Now the SALT used is generated automatically instead of manually
- Removed a few options that did no help with performances and caused issues (e.g. : JPG-ification)
- Updated the webp converter, it should now work more reliably
1.8.6
*Removed Memcached for now. Cause site to break.
1.8.5
- Fixed fatal error when minifying certain types of CSS
- Fixed issues with preloading CSS
1.8
- Compatibility check added
- Can now deactivate the plugin
- Some corrections to the actions
1.7
- Fixes to the CSS/JS concatenation, it should now works better
- Minor bugs fixes
1.6.5
- Can ask for reviews
- Minor bugs fixed
1.6
- Fixing a problem where non-authorized users could access the options page
1.5
- Fixing security issue
- Another change to the button to make it easier to understand => now slider
- Some bugs fixed
- More security measures added
1.2
- Important bug corrected concerning the lazy loading
- WordPress crash when trying to deactivate lazy loading corrected
- Clarified some button to better show their function
1.1
- Bug corrected for the HTML Minification, making it unusable
- Made it easier to apply modification in the first tab
- Clarifications added on some elements in the media tab
1.0
- Plugin created and published
