The maintenance was 6 hours everyone is in the same boat the boat that we all gladly don ' t have to do the arena because we ' re not losing our position ! <| sep |> I managed to reduce load times by almost half in one site with many small images , just by updating nginx and editing a single line in config . It ' s amazing to get that kind of improvement with 2 minutes of work . Can I ask for more information on exactly what you did in this case ? It sounds like something I might want to carry out or at least investigate . I ' m in a similar position . I ' ve become the developer on a site in which the client is asking me to reduce page load time . I ' m trying to optimize the page per suggestions from Google ' s PageSpeed Insights . I was going to have a chat with the server admin we ' re on nginx and ask him to install the Google PageSpeed Nginx Module . This was decided inpart on the suggestion of our SEO advisor . Additionally , the report generated by Google ' s PageSpeed Insights indicates that this Nginx module may alleviate many of our issues . Our main issues , as indicated by Google ' s report , are the lack of gzip compression on files , minification of JSCSS , and lack of page caching . I believe the Google Nginx module can help withe first twoI ' m not sure about the last . samui . com is the page inquestion .