Why use Nitropack?
Nitropack is a cloud-based website performance and optimization platform. It helps to speed up your web platform without much effort. It is a tool that you can use on many platforms meant for content and e-commerce like Woocommerce, Magento, WordPress and OpenCart. It allows you to take advantage of a multitude of features such as free tools, including Google PageSpeed and Time to First Byte (TTFB) testing.
In addition, Nitropack creates an optimized HTML cache to help you improve the loading speed of your pages. With your website loading speed, the user experience is enhanced tenfold, motivating them to visit other pages. As they visit your site, they will be prompted to subscribe or make a purchase. What's interesting is that the speed at which a website loads can increase your website's score. In other words, Nitropack is a plugin that allows you to improve your SEO ranking and optimization on search engines including Google, Bing and Yahoo.
The advantages of Nitropack?
The disadvantages of Nitropack?
Overview of Nitropack
Full description of the tool
The Nitropack plugin is a solution to improve the loading speed of a website. Here is a full description of its features and pricing.
The features of the plugin
The revolutionary caching
Caching is an essential element in optimizing the loading speed of a website. Nitropack does not disappoint its users in this regard. Indeed, the solution offers you a multitude of smart caching options such as cache invalidation, cookie exclusion, cache expiration and cache preheating. In addition to these features, the plugin helps you create separate cache files for your different media, namely: tablet, computer and mobile. In other words, you have the ability to create multiple caches for your devices to improve loading speed.
Optimization of image content
It's no secret that a website without an image is dull. Visual content brings content to life, but it's too heavy and too resource-intensive, unlike text. Nitropack allows you to compress with or without loss, in order to optimize your images for more efficiency, without sacrificing quality.
The real beauty of this plugin is that it converts your images to WebP, but keeps the original format for browsers that don't support this configuration. Additionally, if your images lack height and width attributes, the Nitropack plugin enables pre-emptive sizing and adaptive sizing. This ensures that images fit into their containers.
The quality CDN
Content Delivery Network or CDN is a network of servers spread around the world. When you upload your website to your physical server, the CDN keeps copies of your platform on these servers. So every time a user visits it, the CDN provides him with the geographically closest copy. The CDN extension comes with an integrated Content Delivery Network powered by Cloudflare which is a leader in the field. This means you won't have to configure a third-party CDN, which is common with caching plugins. Just install Nitropack and you're done.
Code optimization
The website loads many resources from the server to create the page you see in your browser. Besides JavaScript, your platform loads other files, namely CSS and HTML. This results in many operations to the server, which are called HTTP/S requests.
If you have large files, they will take a long time to load, slowing down your platform. That's the beauty of using NitroPack. This extension comes with a feature to shrink and compress JavaScript, HTML, and CSS files.
Slow loading
When we talk about lazy or slow loading, we are referring to the loading of images, videos and iFrames viewed by the visitor. Instead of loading all these multimedia resources when the page of your website loads, it will only load the multimedia resources when the user brings them up. This is an interesting solution because it allows you to increase the speed of your page loading. Moreover, the Nitropack plugin can also find images declared in external files, which is ideal with some WordPress CMS themes.
The pricing of the plugin
NitroPack offers flexible pricing. To take advantage of the extension, you'll have a choice of one free plan and three paid plans. Of course, all plans allow you to benefit from interesting features. However, you will have to pay extra for page views and bandwidth.
For the free plan, you have unlimited access to the offer. You will not have to provide any credit or debit card. However, the plan offers you 1 GB of monthly CDN bandwidth and 5000 page views. If you have a low traffic site, this is a proposal that should satisfy you. As for the business plan, it is available for $16.62 per month. It offers 50,000 page views per month and a CDN bandwidth of 25 GB/month. As for the growth and scale plans, they allow access to 200,000 page views and 100 GB of bandwidth per month and 500,000 page views and 500 GB of bandwidth per month respectively.
Our opinion
Our overall review of the NitroPack extension is positive. With its ability to improve page speed, it ranks among the best plugins to use to increase your conversion rate.