Explore URLsLab’s performance-boosting features, engineered to elevate your website’s speed and efficiency through optimized media handling, advanced caching techniques, and strategic HTML optimizations, catering to technical demands for enhanced site performance.
Media feature
URLsLab’s Media feature enhances website performance by optimizing media management. It mitigates delays and improves page responsiveness by offloading images and videos to an external storage, utilizing CDN for global distribution and converting images on your website.
By transferring images and videos to an external storage solution, it not only optimizes content delivery efficiency but also ensures data integrity in the event of primary hosting failure.
Utilizing CDN technology, the feature ensures media content is efficiently distributed across a worldwide network of servers, boosting website speed and accessibility. Moreover, it automatically transcodes images to WebP and AVIF formats, offering a compromise between superior visual quality and minimized file sizes for accelerated loading.
To learn more, read the full article about our Media feature, which includes a practical guide and basic settings.
Cache feature
The Cache feature of URLsLab works by storing static versions of your website’s pages. Normally, when a user visits a page on your website, a request is sent to your website’s server to fetch the needed information from the database. This process can be time-consuming, especially if many users are accessing your site simultaneously.
However, with the Cache feature, the system creates and stores a static version of a page after the first request. When subsequent users access the same page, the stored version is served up, bypassing the need for database queries. This drastically improves the speed at which your website can load pages and content.
You can specify the duration of cache validity, which is the time a cached version of a page is stored before being refreshed or updated. You use this parameter as a measure of how fresh your content is and how quickly it is served to your users.
Besides page caching, URLsLab also features link preloading and browser prefetching. Link preloading works by pre-fetching the contents of a link when a user hovers over it or during user interaction, speeding up the browsing process.
To learn more, read the full article about our Cache feature, which includes a practical guide and basic settings.
Lazy loading feature
Lazy Loading defers the loading of non-critical resources at page load time by loading these assets only as they are needed. For example, images and videos outside of the viewport will not load until the user scrolls to them. Implementation is straightforward, requiring only the addition of specific shortcodes or settings adjustments to activate Lazy Loading for various content types like images and videos.
YouTube videos section
The URLsLab plugin not only integrates YouTube videos from your website into a detailed table but also enhances each entry with metadata, a feature exclusive to URLsLab’s premium services. This process strategically enhances your HTML code with schema fields, significantly improving Google’s ability to identify and index your video content accurately. Deploying URLsLab’s advanced features elevates your site’s search engine visibility, giving you a competitive edge.
The plugin introduces an efficient Lazy Loading mechanism for video iframes, activating them only upon user interaction. This targeted loading approach prevents unnecessary load times upon page access, displaying a thumbnail image until interaction prompts the iframe to load.
Additionally, the system incorporates a status indicator for video availability, usage metrics, and change tracking. The advanced filtering system facilitates streamlined organization and easy retrieval of video content.
Content lazy loading section
Activate Content Lazy Loading effortlessly via the Settings tab, where you can define the specific webpage elements for Lazy Loading by their class name. Upon enabling HTML Lazy Loading, the plugin dynamically captures HTML content during webpage generation, storing designated sections for Lazy Loading within a database table.
This database table catalogs the HTML segments earmarked for Lazy Loading. As visitors navigate and reach these segments, the content is seamlessly fetched from the database and rendered in the browser. Each piece of HTML content is accessible through a distinct URL, optimizing content delivery and improving overall site performance.
To learn more, read the full article about our Lazy loading feature, which includes a practical guide and basic settings.
HTML optimizations feature
The HTML Optimizations feature boosts page speed and performance by using inline CSS instead of external CSS files, thereby reducing load times and improving Core Web Vitals.
Utilizing inline CSS allows you to apply styling directly to an HTML element, eliminating the need to make extra requests to external CSS files, resulting in improved site speed. URLsLab’s intuitive module lets you process CSS and JavaScript files seamlessly from one interface, enhancing performance and SEO without needing advanced coding skills.
CSS files section
In this section you can see all the CSS files processed and cached by the plugin. It is an optional feature that can be enabled or disabled in the Settings. When activated, CSS files are optimized and saved. Their original URLs located in your HTML are then replaced with new paths that lead to the optimized versions of the CSS files. This URL replacement occurs dynamically during page generation.
JavaScript files section
This section displays a list of JavaScript files processed and cached by the plugin. This feature is optional and can be enabled in the Settings tab. Once a JavaScript file is minified and stored in this section, its original URL in your page’s HTML code is updated in real-time and replaced with a new path leading to the optimized JavaScript file.
To learn more, read the full article about our HTML optimization feature, which includes a practical guide and basic settings.
