Performance

The account-level performance insights page gives you an overview of the health and performance for all sites on a single account.

We’ve done a lot of work to understand performance. We’ve added a report with key metrics and review why each is important.

Learn what Google PageSpeed Insights is and how to use it with WordPress. We’ll also cover recommendations to improve your Performance Score.

Large images can slow down your site. Learn how implementing WebP compression can make your website on WordPress faster.

Learn best practices for development, security, and cacheability to maintain high availability on your site, and what WP Engine does to help.

In this article we explain how cache-control headers work, and how to tell if your page or file is hitting cache in the WP Engine environment.

Learn about the prime causes of high Time to First Byte (TTFB) and our recommendations on optimizations to improve your site’s TTFB.

Learn how bandwidth and storage are calculated, how these measurements impact a website, and how to reduce excess usage.

Learn about WP Engine’s optional Object Caching layer, what it does, and how it’s beneficial to your site’s performance.