Title: the dummest question
Last modified: January 19, 2021

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# the dummest question

 *  Resolved anonymized-14293447
 * (@anonymized-14293447)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-dummest-question/)
 * Sorry but I dont’ understand how to use it 🙁 I was hoping it worked behind the
   scenes… do I need to include every single URL of the waterfall report?

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 *  Plugin Author [Sam Perrow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samperrow/)
 * (@samperrow)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-dummest-question/#post-13930304)
 * @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!
 *  Thread Starter anonymized-14293447
 * (@anonymized-14293447)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-dummest-question/#post-13931884)
 * …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
 *  Plugin Author [Sam Perrow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samperrow/)
 * (@samperrow)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-dummest-question/#post-13934324)
 * @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.
 *  Thread Starter anonymized-14293447
 * (@anonymized-14293447)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-dummest-question/#post-13934752)
 * thank you, I have put [my site](https://agendadelvolo.info) off maintenacne mode
   so you can test it (it’s very slow because of WpBakery I believe)
 *  Plugin Author [Sam Perrow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samperrow/)
 * (@samperrow)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-dummest-question/#post-13934972)
 * @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](https://webpagetest.org/result/210120_DiSE_6307878691af498c6c78cc2d2ade5563/1/details/#waterfall_view_step1)
 *  Thread Starter anonymized-14293447
 * (@anonymized-14293447)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-dummest-question/#post-13935121)
 * 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 🙁

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