Just letting you know that the site is currently in "troubleshooting-mode" as I play "Whack-a-Mole" with hackers, bots, crawlers, and website errors. But... at least I'm finally trying to fix it after 2 years of it being "too hard".
Talking through my troubleshooting steps of getting a Google Page Site Speed score of a lousy 62 (out of 100) and increasing the score to 95 with the installation and setup of just 2 wordpress plugins.
Poland .pl registration spam is hammering me.. here are some plugins that others recommend for dealing with wordpress registration spam.
That annoying "An Unexpected HTTP Error occurred during the API request" Wordpress Error.. Resolved.