Do you wish that your real estate website loaded faster? Of course you do. No one wants a slow website.
WordPress has released a free service that will help you in your quest to turbo-charge your website.
This new service is called Photon and it is part of the Jetpack plugin by WordPress. Photon is a CDN for photos on WordPress.org websites.
For those not familiar with a CDN, it stands for “content distribution network”. Essentially, it is a bunch of servers across the globe that store identical copies of a website’s content. When someone visits that website, the server that is physically closest to that person will deliver the content. That makes for much faster load times as the data doesn’t have to travel as far.
Installing Photon on your WordPress website means that copies of your website’s photographs will be stored on servers across the globe. When someone visits your site, your web host will deliver the website files at the same time that Photon delivers the photos. The end result is a much faster loading website.
While Photon isn’t a complete CDN (like Amazon Cloudfront), it does address a major cause of slow website loading. Best of all, it is easy to install and completely free.
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we wish that our real estate website loaded faster. Of course we do. No one wants a slow website.
Does the plugin also work on websites hosted on wordpress.org ?
Many of my visitors are international from around the globe so it would be great to be able to have data centers on all continents for one website. One thing that definitely slows my website down dramatically is loading external api’s especially google, analytics, maps and plus api.
Same here. i have a real estate business having wordpress website which is damn slow. I will try to use this new Photon. Hope that works. Thanks for the heads up.
This sounds like a great addition for many people as those super slow loading pics can really turn off readers/customers. Also, for a long time that was a problem for me, but after I upgraded to a host that costs just a little more picture load speed has been a non-issue.
Really very helpful in to decrease picture load time
Thanks for the info. I didn’t notice this update, but will have to check it out and make sure it’s enabled.
Oh That’s Amazing…This information is a lottery or jackpot for any real estate company and also other site related to shopping etc.. thanks for giving brief info about this plugin
I used to have this problem of a slow loading website until i was advised to use WP Super Cache for WordPress. Works very well for me.
This is great. I’ve just turned this on for my site and it’s already look faster. Click my name for proof!
we wish we had something like this here