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Leap is Ezoic's completely free website performance tool, designed to be an all-in-one app to
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diagnose and address each site's performance issues, one by one, so that every site can
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achieve good core web vitals and excellent performance for their readers. The tool includes optimization settings that render other speed and caching plugins obsolete
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You may be wondering how Leap can perform against some of the most popular plugins out
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there. Today I'm going to show you four plugins often used by publishers and how they perform
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against Leap regarding core web vitals and overall site speed, and why you no longer
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need multiple plugins to do what Leap can do all on its own
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First we have Imageify. Imageify is a popular image optimization plugin used to resize and
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compress images to make websites load faster. Here we have Imageify activated on a website
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in aggressive mode. Auto-optimize images on upload and backup original images are selected
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Additionally, we have it set to create WebP versions of images, to resize images to a
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maximum width of 2,560 pixels, and to automatically optimize specific image sizes
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Next we also have WP Rocket installed. WP Rocket is a popular caching plugin that claims
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to improve the speed, SEO rankings, and conversions of your WordPress site
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Here we have Enable Caching for Mobile Devices turned on. We also have CSS Files, Combine
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CSS Files, Optimize CSS Delivery, Minify JavaScript Files, Combine JavaScript Files, Load JavaScript
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Deferred, and Delay JavaScript Execution. Preloading to cache and enable link preloading is also turned on
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Now, these two popular speed plugins activated, what do we get for our site speed and core
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web vitals? We tested using PageSpeed Insights multiple times. The desktop version of the
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site is doing well, but if we look at the mobile PageSpeed, it ranges from 79 to 86
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and the core web vitals are not where they should be. These poor core web vitals appear
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every time we tested the mobile site using Imageify and WP Rocket
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Now let's deactivate those plugins and just use Ezoic Leap to optimize for site speed
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and core web vitals. We'll want to log out of WordPress so we can use the preview link
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of the website before fully activating any version of Leap. By clicking Get Started
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certain settings will already be activated to optimize CSS, images, the cache policy
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pre-connecting origins, minifying, script execution, and iframes. You can preview how fast these settings are by clicking Next and then selecting Go to Preview
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If we copy the preview link and take it to PageSpeed Insights, we can test the settings
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before pushing them live on our site. Testing this preview multiple times, we got a mobile
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PageSpeed score ranging between 97 and 99, and all green core web vitals
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We ran the same tests on two other popular speed optimization plugins, AutoOptimize and
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ShortPixel. AutoOptimize is used to aggregate, minify, and cache scripts and styles, amongst
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other optimizations. ShortPixel is used to optimize and compress images. We have both of these activated and used the website URL to test PageSpeed. We see that
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these plugins only achieved a mobile score between 58 and 63 with poor core web vitals
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and desktop received between a 77 and 92, and with an issue of some core web vitals
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as well. After deactivating the plugin and then logging out of WordPress once more, we
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want to make sure EZOit caching is on. Next, just as before, we turn on Leap and take
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the preview link to PageSpeed Insights. Now the site is receiving mobile PageSpeed
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scores ranging between 96 and 98, and a desktop PageSpeed score between 99 and 100, all with
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great core web vitals. Leap was built to identify issues in actionable
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ways, address fundamental speed solutions with cutting-edge features, provide simple directions to complex problems, and highlight the root cause of poor timings or metrics
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and makes optimizing your site simpler than ever
