New website is slow. First Byte Time = F

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Yes doing that will change your http links to https. There are 5 big benefits you can gain from doing this (cited in the article) and you'll be able to use Brotli via cloudflare. You should start to notice a big difference in your tests after you do this.

I don't use wordpress but the more external scripts you have, the higher the load time will be. You can use gtmetrix to see more details on potential issues. https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.directe...m/oQ5B6fUD

Oh and to avoid mixed content warnings put this in your header.

Code:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Security-Policy" content="upgrade-insecure-requests">

More info here https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs...e-requests

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Also you should try to host this locally
https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=...A400italic

Along with all of the woff fonts that it calls