Performance settings

In your website’s Performance Settings, you can configure options related to loading pages faster, optimizing images, and speeding up visitors’ experience. This guide will explain each setting.

This feature is available on sites with the WordPress.com Business and Commerce plans. If you have a Business plan, make sure to activate it. For free sites and sites on the Personal and Premium plans, upgrade your plan to access this feature.

To visit the Performance settings:

1. Visit your site’s dashboard.
2. Navigate to Jetpack → Settings.
3. Click on the tab labeled “Performance”.

Each setting found here is explained below.

Jetpack’s Site Accelerator is our Content Delivery Network (CDN) that speeds up your site with faster images and static files. The CDN is enabled by default on WordPress.com sites, with the ability to turn it on or off on higher-level plans:

1. Visit your site’s dashboard.
2. Navigate to Jetpack → Settings.
3. Click on the tab labeled “Performance”.
4. Locate the “Performance & speed” section.
5. Toggle the option next to “Enable Site Accelerator” and enable the following settings:
   • Speed up image load times: We host your images from our servers, providing faster image loading for your readers.
   • Speed up static file load times: We host static assets like JavaScript and CSS from our servers, alleviating the load on your site.

The Site Accelerator can only retrieve publicly available images. If your site is set to private, your images (including in the media library) will return a 403 Forbidden message if “Speed up image load times” is activated.

Under Media, you can enable VideoPress for fast, ad-free video hosting to store your videos on WordPress.com. Learn more about VideoPress.

1. Visit your site’s dashboard.
2. Navigate to Jetpack → Settings.
3. Click on the tab labeled “Performance”.
4. Locate the “Media” section.
5. Toggle the option next to “Enable VideoPress”
6. Optional: Enable “Video Privacy: Restrict views to members of this site” to restrict access for all uploaded videos to members of your site.

Your VideoPress storage usage will be shown when VideoPress is enabled.