Website Booster installation
After you have downloaded and installed the 10Web Website Booster plugin from wordpress.org:
- In your WP admin dashboard, click Sign up & Connect
- Sign up with Google or fill in your information
- Click Get Started for Free
- Website optimization will begin automatically
Once optimization is complete, you will see a comparison of your homepage original score and the 10Web Website Booster optimized score.
Important:
The 10Web Booster uses Extreme optimization as default. To see true results of your optimized website, please make sure to view your site in incognito mode.
Click the Explore 10Web Booster button to be redirected to the dashboard.
Accessing the Website Booster
After the booster has been enabled, you will be redirected to the Frontend section. If you are returning, then you will need to:
- Log in to your 10Web dashboard
- Click on the website you want to manage
You will find the Website Booster and all of it's sections to the left of the dashboard.
Main
At the top of the Main page, you will find the Booster status, if it is active or in Test mode, you will see the number of optimized pages, the Optimization Levels, your current optimization level, your PageSpeed score, and more.
Optimization is done at the Extreme level by default. To check your website, please view it in incognito mode. In case something doesn’t look right, please try a different optimization level. If none of the optimization levels work, try customizing the optimization with the Advanced settings of the 10Web Booster.
When you change the level of optimization, your PageSpeed is automatically reanalyzed.
To change the Optimization level of your website:
- Hover on the level of your choice
- Click Apply
- Check your website in incognito mode
Note:
If you are using the free plan, you can optimize the homepage and up to 5 more pages per website.
To optimize more pages, click on Optimize more pages located at the right of the dashboard, or click on Pages.
Pages
The Pages section is where you will see the list of optimized pages if you are using the free plan, and a list of custom optimized pages if you are using 10Web Pro.
To optimize a page:
- Enter the URL of the page
- Click Optimize for free plans or Add to list for paid plans.
Note:
When you upgrade to any pro plan, the Optimize up to 5 pages section will disappear. Your entire website’s frontend will be automatically optimized using the mode that was defined during the initial optimization. A page visit will be the trigger to automatic optimization.
To check the PageSpeed score of an individual page, click on the Speedometer icon in front of the URL.
To remove a URL, click on the 3 dots and click Remove.
Note:
Custom optimization is available in pro plans.
Image Optimizer
Important:
The Image Optimizer service has been integrated into the 10Web Booster and will be in the left menu of the dashboard under Website Booster.
If you are on a free plan, you will need to upgrade to Booster Pro in order to optimize all of your images.
At the top of the Image Optimizer page you will see the number of images that need to be optimized and how many of those are full sized. Next to the number of images, you will see the last optimization size and the total size of reduction.
Note:
When you upload images, WordPress automatically generates several sizes of each image.
To optimize images click on Optimize Now
Automatic optimization of newly uploaded images, and optimization of the images of your entire website are available in Pro Plans only.
WebP Format Box
The WebP format for images is activated by default. Your website images are automatically optimized and converted to webP format when the Booster is enabled. We serve images in web WebP format by auto configuring the .htaccess file for server side serving. If you don’t want to use WebP, simply deactivate the toggle.
Important:
In the case that WebP does not activate automatically, please take a look at our Troubleshooting article, or follow the steps in the dashboard by clicking these instructions.
Hosting Performance
In order to have an optimized backend, you will need to get a 10Web Website Booster pro plan. If you don't have an optimized hosting performance, you will see a:
Comparison of current website benchmarks - how fast 10Web hosting is able to calculate a large number of queries such as mathematical functions, string functions, etc., compared to how fast your current hosting is able to calculate the same queries.
A diagnostics of your website and server performance - evaluation of how your hosting performs compared to the industry recommendation for best practice.
Note:
To read more about backend optimization, please take a look at this article.
To optimize the backend of your website:
- Click on Hosting performance > Optimize or
- Click Get Website Booster Pro
- Choose a plan and the payment interval then click Proceed
- Enter your payment information and click Proceed
You will see a pop up of a successful upgrade. Click Proceed to continue to the dashboard.
To optimize the backend of your website, click on Optimize or Optimize & Migrate.
- Download the 10Web Manager then upload it into your WP admin and click Activate
- In the subdomain field enter a subdomain
Note:
You can always change your subdomain by pointing your domain to 10Web.
- From the dropdown menu, choose the data center closest to your target audience
- Click Migrate
Migration and optimization of your website will start automatically.
Quick tip:
You can enable push notifications to be notified as soon as your website has finished migrating.
Settings
In the Settings tab you can enable the Test Mode for the 10Web Booster in the case that you want to test the booster without affecting your live site. Here you can also disable the page cache and clear your website cache entirely.
To turn on the Booster test mode, activate the toggle in the Test Mode box.
10Web hosting uses Nginx FastCGI caching. Once PHP code has been processed into an HTML static page, this static page is cached. The static page is then served in the case of a repeat request which results in a very fast loading website and great customer experience. To turn on website Caching, activate the toggle in the Website Caching box.
If you have made numerous changes and want them to appear immediately, you can clear the cache of your entire site.
To clear the cache of your entire website Click Clear Cache.
Note:
A page will be cached again when a visitor opens the page.
Page optimization from the WP admin dashboard
Optimization of pages from the WordPress admin dashboard is easy, intuitive, and efficient.
To view basic statistics of your optimization progress click on the 10Web Booster located to the left of the WP dashboard. Here you will find:
- Your optimized homepage score
- The number of optimized pages
- The option to manage your site
- The option to disconnect your site
In the Pages section in your WP admin dashboard, you will see a list of the pages of your website. Next to each page, you will see a red icon with the wording "Optimize now," or a green icon with the wording "Optimized." To optimize a page, click on Optimize now. To see the score of an Optimized page, hover over the wording.
You can also optimize a page while you are working in the Gutenberg editor or in Elementor. To optimize a page while editing it in the Gutenberg editor:
- To the right of the editor, click on the 10Web Booster dropdown menu
- Click Optimize
- Refresh the page after a couple of minutes
You will see a comparison of your page score before and after optimization.
If you are working in Elementor, you will find the Booster by clicking on the hamburger icon in the left column, under More.