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1. WPMU Dev is at the forefront of technology in this area. The hosting includes four premium plugins with each hosting plan: Smush Pro, Hummingbird Pro, Defender Pro, and Shipper Pro. And our site is super fast! Our site is so fast it allowed us to remove plugins we didn't need because WPMU DEV does it all.
2. Welcome to Nick’s Family Garden Center. Established in 1935, our family-owned business has been a cornerstone of Southern New Jersey for over 80 years.

Hummingbird makes your website faster and optimizes site performance by adding new ways to boost Google PageSpeed Insights with fine-tuned controls over file compression, deferring CSS and JavaScript styles and scripts, minify for CSS and JS, Lazy Load integration, and world-class caching.

Welcome to the Marshall University School of Pharmacy website! We are so pleased that you are interested in our school and hope that you will take some time to explore our website and learn about why We Arethe Future of Pharmacy Education! The School of Pharmacy is located in Stephen J. Kopp Hall on Marshall.

Hummingbird is brought to you by the WordPress speed specialists that created Smush image optimization, now active on more than +1 million websites. Get the complete speed boost with Hummingbird and Smush.

If PageSpeed Insights is making these speed recommendations Hummingbird can help:

• Enable text compression – Use gzip to make your site fly.
• Preconnect to required origins – Use Hummingbird to establish earlier connections.
• Preload key requests – Prioritize resources based on order.
• Avoid enormous network payloads – Consider Lazy Load for comments or breaking up smaller posts.
• Use efficient cache – The Hummingbird Cache suite offers effective browser cache for caching any site.
• Fix your JavaScript execution time – Deliver smaller JS payloads, preload JS, and defer JS.
• Minify CSS – Strip unused code from your CSS.
• Minify JavaScript – Speed up the time it takes to parse your JS files.
• Eliminate render-blocking resources – Move critical CSS and JS inline and defer all non-critical JS/CSS.
• Defer unused CSS – Defer the loading of CSS not used for above-the-fold content.
• Lazy Load offscreen images (Smush free integration).

Hummingbird scans your site and provides one-click fixes to speed up WordPress in a flash.

You’ll get faster loading pages, higher search rankings (SERP) and PageSpeed scores, and happier visitors with Hummingbird’s WordPress speed optimization. Optimizing the speed of your site has never been easier!

Features Available in Hummingbird Include:

• Scan and Fix – Get a scan of your site, find out what’s slowing it down, and use one-click performance improvements to make critical speed improvements.
• World-class caching – A full caching suite to load pages faster with full-page, Gravatar, and browser cache tool.
• Performance Reports – Pro tips for running your site at super speed.
• Asset Optimization – Position, minify and combine Javascript and CSS files for top performance.
• Better Rankings – Improve scores on Google PageSpeed Insights (SEO ranking factor), YSlow, Pingdom, and GTmetrix.
• Increase Your Conversion Rate – Don’t keep visitors waiting: faster sites convert better.
• GZIP Compression – Blazing-fast HTML, JavaScript, and stylesheet (CSS) transfer.

Learn The Ropes With These Hands-On Hummingbird Tutorials

Hummingbird Features to Speed Up WordPress

Scan and One-Click Fix

Hummingbird is a WordPress speed optimization plugin. It will scan your site, find files that are slowing it down, and provide tips and fixes for making your site run at top speed.

Hummingbird even has one-click improvements like a full cache suite, one-click minify for styles and scripts, and deferring CSS and JS for quickly optimizing performance. What could be easier!

World-Class Caching

You’ll get a world-class caching suite, including full-page, browser, and Gravatar cache.

Make your site load even faster with Hummingbird’s complete set of cache tools that give your visitors a faster browsing experience. Including full-page, browser and Gravatar caching.

Asset Optimization

Did you know that the more files you add to your site’s header, the slower it will load? With Hummingbird, you can easily customize the load position of your CSS, JavaScript (defer CSS and Javascript) and other files to increase your page speed.

Quickly reorder, compress, and reposition files with Hummingbird’s minification feature. But play carefully – minification is a powerful tool (though if you need it, you can reset any changes you make in one click).

Transfer Data at Top Speed With GZIP

Hummingbird has GZIP powers to make sharing your site more efficient.

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Sending zipped files is faster and can save you money on hosting. And don’t worry about setup, send Hummingbird instructions with the click of a button and she’ll handle the rest.

Built-in Cloudflare Integration

Hummingbird can be used to control your Cloudflare browser cache settings as well! Simply add your Cloudflare API key and configure away.

Fully Compatible With Smush Image Optimization

You can complement Hummingbird’s WordPress speed optimization features with our award-winning sister-plugin Smush image optimization. Smush compresses your images, giving your site less to load – and thus a faster load time. Hummingbird + Smush integrate perfectly together, and are the perfect match to speed up WordPress.

Compress, optimize (optimise), and fix PageSpeed performance with properly sized images, lazy load, next-gen WebP convert, image formatting, and more.

Faster Websites Rank Higher, Convert Better

Every millisecond counts: your visitors expect an ever-faster website, with a page load time of under two seconds expected – and the norm. If visitors don’t get that on your site, they will leave.

If you’re running a business website or eCommerce store, that means if your website does not load quickly, you will lose sales.

Hummingbird is here to help you; it’s a one of a kind WordPress performance optimization plugin that can make your site run at superspeed, for free!

You get our WordPress performance optimization suite, which includes minification and GZIP for small page sizes, full caching for faster loading, and integration with Cloudflare’s browser cache, and our sister-plugin Smush image optimization.

Hummingbird is built with ease-of-use in mind; it makes your WordPress site faster, but it’s also fast to set up. You can scan your site and implement recommended changes in one-click, getting a fast site in mere minutes.

All the above is free and will speed up WordPress for you. If you need the very fastest WordPress site, you should get a WPMU DEV Membership.

Our Membership gives you access to Hummingbird Pro – which features automated scanning, uptime monitoring, enhanced minify compression (with 2x the regular optimization), CDN hosted minification – alongside Smush Pro image optimization, all our premium WordPress plugins, and 24/7 WordPress support.

If you’d like automated scanning, uptime monitoring, enhanced minify compression with up to 2x the regular optimization, CDN hosted modification, and Smush Pro image optimization, you can always take the next step with a WPMU DEV Membership.

What do People say About Hummingbird?

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“Hummingbird is so easy to use. I thought it wouldn’t change my speed much because I already made improvements. I ran the scan, it gave me recommendations, I pushed a button to apply them and it made my site even faster!” – Camilo

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“Hummingbird is getting smarter with each update. Today it’s become so good that it forced me to remove giant cache and optimization plugins like WP Super Cache and WP Sweep because now Hummingbird includes all those features – but in a more impressive way.” – swagatam1975

★★★★★

“Hummingbird took me from 32 to 84 on Google page speed plus made my site 50% faster on GTmetrix!” – Nicolas

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“I just built a real bloated sack of crap of a WP site, and after configuring Hummingbird and letting it do its thing, the site is actually fast — much faster than it has any right to be…I’m impressed.” – Cacarr

A Note From Hummingbird

Hey! This is Hummingbird, your trusted solution to speed up WordPress. I’m part of the WPMU DEV team, a superhero-suite of WordPress plugins, services, and support. Here are some of our other free plugins:

• Smush – Image Compression and Optimization
• Forminator – Form, Quiz, Poll and Survey Builder
• Hustle – Pop-ups, Slide-ins and Email Opt-ins

And if you need ALL our Pro plugins AND 24/7 WordPress support, get WPMU DEV membership! You can try it for free: wpmudev.com

My superhero friends run the WPMU DEV Blog, your source for the very best WordPress tutorials. If you need to be in the know about WordPress, check it out.

Thanks for looking at Hummingbird, and I look forward to flying through your site to make it faster than ever.

Enjoy, The Hummingbird

About Us

WPMU DEV is a premium supplier of quality WordPress plugins, services and support. Join us here:
https://wpmudev.com/

Don’t forget to stay up to date on everything WordPress from the Internet’s number one resource:
WPMU DEV Blog

Hey, one more thing… we hope you enjoy our free offerings as much as we’ve loved making them for you!

FAQ

Yes! Of course, our cache suite is more than enough, but if you already use WP Rocket or W3 Total Cache, the special monitoring tools Hummingbird offers still make it worth it. To ensure compatibility, only activate overlapping features in one of the plugins.

Yes! Hummingbird is built to take full advantage of Cloudflare features. Just plug in your API to get started.

Yes! Hummingbird works great with ecommerce plugins like WooCommerce and MarketPress. For best results, when configuring full-page cache, follow the WooCommerce recommended cache settings. Hummingbird will exclude the cart, my account and checkout pages to keep content dynamic.

There are plenty of factors involved in why you’d have WordPress slow. Hummingbird’s scanning and one-click fixes can work out why your site is slow, and with one click, speed up WordPress for you. Easy peasy!

The free Hummingbird plugin is a powerful suite of WordPress speed optimization features! You can deliver big improvements in your page speed in mere minutes using our one-click implementation of recommended fixes. Some of the reviews above show you the results you can get.

Hummingbird Pro is available as part of the WPMU DEV Membership, and adds automated scanning, uptime monitoring, enhanced minify compression (with 2x the regular optimization), and CDN hosted minification. This will make your site even faster.

Membership also gets you all our premium WordPress plugins, including Smush Pro, for the very best image optimization with image resizing, lazy load, and next-gen WebP convert, and 24/7 WordPress support. Hummingbird is a great free plugin, and Hummingbird Pro is even better. You can find out more here.

Asset Optimization is a great way to speed up your site but moving, combining, using minify, and rearranging CSS and JavaScript (.JS) files can also mess with styling and break functionality. We recommend making incremental changes and testing your site as you go so you can undo the changes if something breaks. And remember, don’t panic. If something goes wrong you can start over with the click of a button 🙂

Reviews

Last Updated on October 27, 2020 by

I have been using WordPress to create my websites for just over 10 years. Before that, I used some sort of site builder that was so frustrating and time-consuming. When I found WordPress, my life became so much easier. And, now my life is even easier because of WPMU DEV. They offer almost everything you need to run a WordPress website smoothly and quickly. I’ve been using them for almost a year, and I can say it’s one of the best investments I’ve made for my websites.

The Big Reason I Signed Up To WPMU DEV

I signed up to the entire site because of one plugin…

I had a ton of pictures on my sites, and when my sites were running slow, I was told by my hosting company that was the reason why.

I found the basic Smush plugin and I quickly got to smushing all my images and saved so much room because of it. It helped speed up my sites and everything was running smoothly again.

Within a few months, I realized that I wanted the Smush Pro plugin. I think it promised up to 2x or more the smushing power than the free plugin. I can’t totally remember, but it was an attractive offer so I went for it.

With the pro feature, I was able to smush everything on my sites. You can even smush images that are outside of your uploads directory.

Let’s just say, if you could smush it, I did, and it helped my sites tremendously.

I don’t know all the technical things that happened – I just know that my sites use up less storage and run faster, which has helped me tremendously.

There Are More Helpful Plugins On WPMU DEV

Instead of just buying the Smush Pro plugin individually (which you could do at the time), I signed up with WPMU DEV because they offered that plugin plus a few others ones that sounded good.

Since I signed up, they have removed a lot of plugins. I’m assuming they removed them because they weren’t as popular or necessary as the ones they kept? I’m not totally sure. But, the plugins they kept on their site are all the plugins you need to make your WordPress site run smoothly.

The big ones include:

• Hummingbird Pro – This plugin helps you keep your site running quickly with caching, file compression, and asset optimization.
• Defender Pro – I used to use a plugin called anti-malware, which was great and helped me fix up my site when someone hacked into it, but now I just use this one. This is a security plugin that helps you lock up your site and keep the bad people out. It makes sure that your files haven’t been tampered with. In short, if you’ve tried to do something bad on my site, you’ve probably either been banned and can’t read this WPMU DEV review, or you have been locked out of my site for a certain amount of time and now know why.
• Hustle Pro – This plugin helps you easily build email opt-in forms, as well as pop-ups, slide-ins, and simple announcements on-site. I haven’t used it a ton, but when I have, I’ve found it really user-friendly.
• SmartCrawl Pro – I used to use Yoast for SEO, but now I use SmartCrawl Pro. It’s basically the same as Yoast – it allows you to build sitemaps, custom descriptions and titles, and decide how you want your site to be crawled.
• Snapshot Pro – This is a backup plugin for your site. You get 10 Gigabytes of storage through WPMU DEV and you can automate everything.

There is a new plugin, called Branda, that is supposed to help you brand both the front and back end of your site. I haven’t checked out that plugin yet.

Manage Everything From The WPMU DEV Hub

You can connect all your websites to the WPMU DEV hub and manage everything from your WPMU DEV dashboard.

It’s super easy to set up. Just click on ‘Add Website’ and follow the instructions.

In your WPMU DEV dashboard, you can see your uptime, which was very important when I was hosting on GoDaddy and constantly having my website go down. (I now host on WPMU DEV because of that happening so often, and as you can see, my website has been available 100% of the time so far!)

You can see what themes you are using and easily delete, add, or activate a theme from the hub.

And you can see all the plugins you are using on your WordPress site and delete ones you don’t want, as well as update all the plugins by clicking on ‘Update Everything’.

Easy access to my plugins through the WPMU DEV dashboard was great when I thought one of my plugins was causing problems with my site. I wasn’t able to access my site at all. Normally I would have gone into my files and changed the names of my plugins to deactivate them. But, with the WPMU DEV dashboard, I was able to deactivate all my plugins easily from the hub and turn them back on one by one so that I could figure out which one was causing the issues.

In short, the WPMU DEV dashboard makes so many things easier when it comes to a WordPress site.

WPMU DEV Pricing

Compared to anything else I’ve had since being online, WPMU DEV’s pricing offers the most value for the cost.

It’s only $49 per month. That’s less than I used to pay for my Bigstock pictures, which only gave me access to 5 pictures per day. WPMU DEV’s price gives me access to all their plugins, but they also include a hosting credit of $30 per month – forever.

Because it cost $10 to host one site per month, you can have three sites hosted by using their credit if your sites are not huge. If you have a more complex site, WPMU DEV has 3 more levels of plans to fit your needs. at $25, $50, and $100 per month.

Update October 2020: Pricing has changed since I wrote this WPMU DEV review. The new pricing can be found here. I’ve updated to the Agency plan which gives you the biggest bang for your buck.

Other Things I Really Appreciate About WPMU DEV

Manage Your Files Through WPMU DEV’s Hosting

This is a newer feature that I love! When I was with Godaddy, I had a lot of problems, which meant that I was in the site’s files a lot trying to fix things. I became used to having easy access to my files, but WPMU DEV didn’t have that when I first signed up.

Now they do.

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That’s the beauty of this service. They are ALWAYS updating their plugins and features. More than any other service I have used – ever.

Create Emails For Your Domains

Another feature they’ve added recently is the ability to create emails with your domain name.

You still have to use another email service, such as Outlook or Gmail, but you can easily create up to 10 email accounts with WPMU DEV and then connect them to whatever email service you prefer. (I’ve found Outlook to be the easiest one to connect to,)

I used to use Godaddy’s email service and pay for it monthly, but WPMU DEV includes the ability to create email accounts for free with their plans.

WPMU DEV’s Support System Is Awesome!

If you are having issues, you can either create a support ticket or click on the little blue chat icon from your hub (see screenshots above) and you will be connected to the best customer service support team I have EVER encountered. These guys are AMAZING! I’m not exaggerating. They communicate well. They are quick to connect to and answer your questions thoroughly. They often fix things from their end, but they can also help you fix issues yourself.

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The bottom line is that you are going to get things fixed when you connect to WPMU DEV’s support.

That is so different than most hosting and website service companies I’ve dealt with.

For instance, I have spent hours upon hours on the phone with GoDaddy. The last time that happened was not too long ago when my site was constantly going down. They spent an hour and a half looking into my issue and then told me that they didn’t know what was going on and it must be from my end.

That was the last straw.

I knew that WPMU DEV had WordPress hosting, but I hadn’t taken the time to try it out. But, that experience with GoDaddy prompted me to cancel everything else I wanted to do that day and check out hosting with WPMU DEV.

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I moved a smaller site over to WPMU DEV to test it out. It went very well, and so I moved this site over the same day because I was having so many problems with it. It had been down most of the week and I couldn’t figure out what was wrong with it.

Guess what? All my site’s issues went away when I transferred to WPMU DEV. It didn’t go down anymore. So, obviously, it wasn’t something happening on my end, but, rather, on GoDaddy’s end.

In fact, later that week I found out that many GoDaddy customers had been experiencing issues.

I’m so glad I switched over to WPMU DEV’s hosting.

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I have noticed that my sites load faster and I’ve had no downtime, which is exactly what I wanted/needed.

Update: This is the best hosting I’ve ever been on. Hands down. I used to have so many headaches with my hosting. I think I used to manifest my site going down when I really needed it to be up! Now, everything works great. I think there’s been a total of 10 minutes downtime since I started with WPMU DEV’s hosting.

Migrating Your Site Made Easy

WPMU DEV has a plugin for migrating your sites called Shipper.

Holy cow this plugin is awesome.

I’ve sold a few of my websites over the years and migrating them has always been my biggest concern. Most buyers have been able to do the work for me, but, this one time, I had to do it myself and I still shudder when I think about it. It was so stressful and time-consuming. I don’t even remember exactly how I did it. I know that I used FileZilla and somehow all the pictures didn’t get transferred, so I had to upload them one by one to the site. It was such a pain in the ass.

So, as I said, I first decided to move one of my smaller sites to WPMU DEV hosting. Just to try it out. They lay out exactly what you need to do to transfer your site to their hosting in their help guide. I’ve struggled a lot with GoDaddy before trying to understand how to do things, but with WPMU DEV it was super easy.

And, the migration was super easy.

You simply install the plugin and get walked through the process step by step. You can contact WPMU DEV’s support at any time for help. I didn’t need to do that.

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Almost Everything On My WordPress Sites Is Through WPMU DEV

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So that’s basically how I run my websites.

I use a couple of basic plugins that are not offered through WPMU DEV. However, as I said, I can manage them through WPMU DEV’s hub.

Also, WPMU DEV does not offer themes, so I use My Theme Shop for all my themes. My Theme Shop also has a few plugins that I use.

Other than that, I use WPMU DEV for my hosting, plugins, and support. And I will be using them from now until forever. They are all that I need. I’m looking forward to seeing what else they come up with in the future.

If you are interested, you can learn more about what they offer here.

And if you have any questions, please ask in the comments below.