CUNY Academic Commons

Jetpack Boost is a standalone plugin to enable your web browser to display your site faster.

From their plugin FAQ:

Jetpack Boost makes small changes to the way that data is sent from your WordPress site to your users’ browser, to enable the browser to display your site faster.

Jetpack Boost includes a few separate features which can be turned on individually to improve your site’s performance. These include:

Optimize CSS Loading: This feature determines the most important CSS that your site needs to display your site’s initial content as quickly as possible, and embeds it directly into your site header.
Defer Non-Essential JavaScript: This feature forces all of the JavaScript which is not deemed essential to displaying your site to load after your site’s main content has been loaded.
Lazy Image Loading: This feature delays loading images on your site until they are scrolled into view, allowing the browser to load the first content that the user will see first.

I think if you're willing to be a beta tester for the Commons, Raffi, we could enable it on your site. If it works well, we could allow the plugin to be available across the Commons.

Sure.

Thanks, Boone. I've been using the original Jetpack plug-in for some time that is also supposed to boost some performance. I've noticed a difference with images. Otherwise, I haven't noticed much. I also don't know if they can be used in conjunction. Please let me know when it's up and I'll activate it. Thanks!

Just tried. Seems to load faster.