Improve Site Speed: Implement suggestions from Pingdom Website Speed Test

[leecalcote]

Current Behavior
The Pingdom Website Speed Test of layer5.io currently receives a low score. Suggestions are made in the test as to how to speed up the layer5.io site.

Desired Situation
Implement the suggestions and improve the site speed and speed score.

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[sahilsuman933]

Hello, @leecalcote. I saw the website speed test score, and yeah, it is not that great.

To fix this, we can add .htaccess for caching purposes, resolving the first issue of Add expire header. But it will be great if you do it or assign this task to someone who has worked on this website. Cause if anything gets messed up, then the whole website will face issues.

Since I am new to this project, I don't have that much information; otherwise, I would have done that. :)

For the optimization part, I can convert images to webp, which will significantly help the site perform better. If it is okay for you, then you can assign this task to me.

Also, I have one more suggestion to add lazy loading and gatsby-images. It will also help the make the website quite fast.

[leecalcote]

@sahilsuman933, we don't use Apache as a web server, but use GitHub Pages.

[sahilsuman933]

Okay Sir!

[kayceeDev]

Can I go ahead with optimizing the images for the site?? Using Gatsby to convert it to webp as it default on supported browsers and a fall back to jpg on unsupported ones.

[leecalcote]

@kayceeDev, yes, that sounds great.

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