I got a WordPress site's lighthouse score from 45 to 99. Feels good man.

@donkulator Well, this one is pretty shiny.

I don't really care about the politics of the situation. If the current owner disappeared right now, there would be new maintainers by lunch. It's as good as it gets when it comes to what it is.

@donkulator I agree with you. But... that shit has so many users and I have clients who insists on using it. I just make do and collect their money.

That's pretty impressive, did you replace the whole frontend?

@BordedDev Enabled nginx caching, opcache, gave more resources to PHP from, cleaned up a slow shortcode used multiple times on the home page, started using webp, and added placeholder elements and size attributes to images to keep the page from jumping before js kicks in.

I also changed the init script for nginx as part of some TLC that seems to have helped for some reason.

It took weeks because it's something that has technically worked without issue since I started working here 10 years ago so I haven't put a lot of time into it. But the performance was actually affecting the clients so I had to get it figured out.

@cuddlyogre That's quite a bit of work :D but it's always nice to be allowed to optimise