Recommended: v1.2
v1.3 prevent HTTP smuggling. Hence it may be issue for client side
SpeedShield is an open-source WordPress plugin that optimizes your website's performance with advanced algorithms that compress images and videos and cache resources to improve page load times. With just a few clicks, you can easily optimize your website to ensure a fast and seamless browsing experience for your visitors.
Whether you're a website owner, developer, or marketer, SpeedShield makes it easy to improve the speed of your website and enhance your online presence. The plugin is packed with features that do not require any user interface.
To get started with SpeedShield, follow these simple steps:
- Download the latest release from the repository.
- Add the plugin to your WordPress website.
- Activate the plugin.
SpeedShield modifies the functions.php file to disable information gathering and ensure the privacy of your website visitors. It also optimizes your website's performance with the following features:
- Compress text, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and XML files to reduce their size and speed up download times.
- Remove server signature information to prevent attackers from determining the version of the server software running on the server.
- Remove ETags to prevent server information identification.
- Enable browser caching by setting expiration times for specific file types.
- Minify CSS and JavaScript files by removing unnecessary code.
- Minify HTML files to reduce their size.
- Prevent cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks with the X-XSS-Protection header.
- Prevent cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks with the X-Content-Type-Options and X-Frame-Options headers.
- Protect against HTTP request smuggling attacks with the Transfer-Encoding header.
- Modify the Set-Cookie header to add the HttpOnly and Secure flags to cookies for secure handling.
- Serve images in next-gen formats to improve performance.
- Reduce unused CSS by redirecting ".css" files to ".min.css" files.
- Eliminate render-blocking resources by setting the Cache-Control header for certain file types.
To optimize your website's performance, install and activate the SpeedShield plugin. No user interface is required.
If you have any questions or concerns about SpeedShield, please reach out to us at [email protected]. We're here to help! As an open-source project, we also encourage contributions from the community.