the dummest question

@arsenalemusica Thanks for contacting me.

I would recommend adding only the URL’s from your waterfall report which are from external sites, while ignoring those from your own site.

There is a feature in place which, after installing the plugin (or clicking the “Reset” button next to “Reset automatically configured preconnect hints”), will collect these URL’s after the front end of your website has been loaded.

I hope this answers your question- if it doesn’t please let me know!

…nice to see that authors give a prompt feedback, so rare nowadays ??
I have acted as you suggested and the plugin has detected the URLs. I’m having no improvements in re-testing performance with Pingdom, while Gtmetrix gives an “analysis error”, but that doesn’t mean the plugin is not working. I just have to study more the topic. Thanks

@arsenalemusica I can tell you exactly which hints should be used, if you can provide me with your website name or a screenshot of your waterfall report.

thank you, I have put my site off maintenacne mode so you can test it (it’s very slow because of WpBakery I believe)

@arsenalemusica your site is loading about 200 separate resources, and it is taking nearly 4 seconds to load WP, your plugins, and everything else your site uses on the backend. Based on the link below, I would gather the resources loaded from external sites and insert those as preconnect hints.

https://webpagetest.org/result/210120_DiSE_6307878691af498c6c78cc2d2ade5563/1/details/#waterfall_view_step1

yes it’s a nightmare, but it’s all the theme/plugins default stuff… so I’m forced to use even more plugins in order to fix those speed issues ??