How to 5x Your Website Speed with ONE Plugin
48sThe promise of a dramatic speed increase with minimal effort is highly appealing and curiosity-driven.
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This video demonstrates how to dramatically improve a WordPress website's loading speed using the Airlift plugin. The host starts with a slow site, installs the plugin, and shows the performance score jump from 50 to 96, explaining the underlying optimization techniques.
Chapters
[00:01]
Plugin Promise
The video claims that installing a single plugin can make a website up to five times faster without additional manual work.
[01:03]
Baseline Setup
The host uses a fresh WordPress installation with the default 2025 theme and no plugins to establish a baseline for performance testing.
[01:17]
Slowing Down the Site
To demonstrate the plugin's effectiveness, the host intentionally installs the Astra theme, starter templates, and several heavy plugins like Jetpack to make the site slower.
[02:56]
Initial Performance
After the intentional bloat, the site's front end is visibly slow, setting the stage for the optimization demonstration.
[03:10]
Airlift Signup
The host directs viewers to the Airlift website, where they can sign up using a Google account and verify their email to get started.
[03:54]
Plugin Installation
After adding the site URL, the user downloads the Airlift plugin, uploads it to WordPress, and activates it, which triggers automatic site analysis.
[04:35]
Performance Improvement
After optimization, the website performance score improves from 50 to 96, demonstrating a significant speed boost.
[05:03]
How It Works
Airlift optimizes by compressing images, caching on a CDN, and serving CSS/JavaScript files through a fast network, reducing load time and page size.
The Airlift plugin offers a simple, automated solution for speeding up WordPress sites, with a dramatic performance score improvement. The video suggests trying the pro plan for additional features.
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Tutorial Checklist
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01:17
Install and activate the Astra theme, then install starter templates and choose a template with Elementor.
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What is the main claim of the video about the Airlift plugin?
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What is the main claim of the video about the Airlift plugin?
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It can make a website up to five times faster with just a few clicks.
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What was the performance score before and after using Airlift?
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What was the performance score before and after using Airlift?
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Before: 50, After: 96.
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What are the three main optimization techniques used by Airlift?
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What are the three main optimization techniques used by Airlift?
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Compressing images, caching on a CDN, and serving CSS/JavaScript files through a fast network.
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What is the first step to start using Airlift?
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What is the first step to start using Airlift?
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Sign up on airlift.net using a Google account and verify your email.
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How long does the Airlift optimization process take?
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How long does the Airlift optimization process take?
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About 3 minutes.
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💡 Key Takeaways
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Speed Promise
Sets the core value proposition: a single plugin can dramatically improve site speed.
00:01
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Score Improvement
Provides concrete evidence of the plugin's effectiveness with a measurable performance gain.
04:48
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Optimization Techniques
Explains the underlying methods (image compression, CDN caching, fast network) that make the speed boost possible.
05:19Full Transcript
[00:01] I'll show you a special plug-in that makes your website instantly five times faster. Now, you might be thinking, how can a website become faster just by installing one single plug-in without doing anything else? Don't worry, I'll
[00:13] explain exactly how it works and how you can make your website up to five times faster with just one plug-in. So, without wasting more time, let's jump right in. Before we move on, I would like to introduce you with today's video
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[01:03] slow website into faster loading website. First I'm going to show you what I have here. You can see this is a fresh installation. I do not have any fresh installation. I do not have any plug-in and I have only one theme active
[01:17] which is 2025 which is default one. So I'm going to make it slower just by installing theme and few plugins. So, let's go ahead and add new theme. I'm going to install the Astro theme. Activate the theme. Now, I'm going to
[01:31] install the starter templates. This is the plug-in. Once the plug-in install and activate, now I need to choose the template. I'll go with classic one. I'll go with Elementor page builder. Now, I'm going to install this template. Click
[01:45] continue. Click continue. Check this box and click submit and build my site. So, come back once it done. It's almost done. Boom. Okay, we have successfully
[01:58] installed this template. Let's go back to the dashboard. Now, hover your mouse over plugins. Install plugins. So, you can see I have this much plug-in over here, but I'm going to install more. Just click on add plug-in. I'm going to
[02:11] install Jetpack, which is the heaviest plug-in, this one. And randomly I'm going to install few plugins over here to make my site slower just to show you guys if you have so many plugins installed on your site. And if your site
[02:27] is slow how you going to make it 5x faster with few clicks of buttons. Once you install them go back to installed plug-in section here. Check this box. Go to bulk action dropdown. Click on activate and click on apply. It will
[02:42] activate all those plugins for you. Go to the dashboard. I'm going to skip this part. Let's look at the plugins once again. Here it is. Plugins, install plugins. As you can see, all of them are active. Now, if you go to the front end
[02:56] of your site, so this is the front end of our website. It's kind of slow. Let's make it faster. So, now go to the description box of this video and you'll find important links and you have to click on the airlift.net link and it
[03:10] will take you to their website. So guys, this is the platform that will turn your slower website into ultra fast WordPress site with few clicks of button. So on this page, simply click on sign up. So here, fill in the simple signup form or
[03:24] Google account. So I'm going to click on connect with Google. Building the dashboard. Please wait. So once you sign up using your Google account, now you have to verify your email. Just click here, send the confirmation email, and
[03:38] go to your mailbox. So, open up the first email. Click on verify your email address. So, there we go. Our email has been verified. So, let's close this tab and this one as well. Now, click on the add site button. Enter your site URL.
[03:54] This is the complete URL of my site. Paste it here. This is basically a subdomain. Once you type in, click on continue. Now, you need to download this plug-in. Click on the download button. So, plug-in has been downloaded. Go back
[04:07] to your back end of your site. Scroll up, click on add plug-in and click on upload plug-in and drag and drop the plug-in file over here. Click on install now and click on activate. So now it is analyzing your site. So you have to wait
[04:21] for few minutes. Airlift plug-in still analyzing our site. So this is the initial performance metrics of my site. Now wait for the magic to happen. It will take almost 3 minutes. So, I'm going to speed the video up and I'll
[04:35] come back once it done. All right, guys. So, as you can see, Airlift has successfully optimized our site. Before optimization, my website performance score was 50. But now, after optimization, my website performance
[04:48] score is 96. As you can see, you can check out your website page performance check out your website page performance by visiting the original page.
[05:03] page and you can visit the optimized page by clicking here. basically compress your page load, page size and request count and few other
[05:19] optimization has been done. Now let me explain you how this works. Normally your website loads lots of CSS files, JavaScript files and big images files. Airlift automatically optimize these by compressing images, caching them on CDN
[05:34] and serving your CSS and JavaScript files through a fast network. This reduces the loading time and makes your site five time faster. So guys, that was a quick video to show you how you can speed up your website with few clicks of
[05:47] buttons using Airlift plug-in. You can also check out their pro plan to get more features. It's really amazing. So, make sure try it out on your website and worked for you. Thank you so much for watching this video. Till then, I'll see
[06:02] you guys next time. [Music]
