How I increased a site's loading speed by 453%

So, a day ago I posted a short thread about finally improving my website's loading speed. (Seems like I'm not allowed to post links or images)

Loading speed before: 7 seconds | Loading speed after: 2 seconds

So, here's how I did it:

• The site is hosted on GoDaddy, and I have not worked on optimizing the database yet.
• Increased text to image ratio: Added a lot more text and reduced images to only have necessary ones.
• Optimized the images before uploading them to the website. I used jpeg and some webp, also icons were in svg. This boosted the speed by 2x.
• Installed a cache plugin.
• Changed the theme to hello Elementor. I noticed themes really do affect website loading speed.
• Choose all (or most) faster plugins. Did a ton of research on what plugins to use and which plugins are faster.
• Lazy loading. This is a gem! Lazy loading boosted the site speed 5x!

This is mostly what I did. Still need to work on optimizing database files. The website is not coded, it's entirely made on WordPress from scratch. I do plan on coding the site later when we require a client's dashboard.

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