Currently my website URL, for quickest access to the site, it is of the form https://www.example.co.uk
.
Generally, if people know of your website, they will enter example.co.uk
.
Entering the website this way, causes the browser to do 2 redirects.
First to https://example.co.uk
and then to https://www.example.co.uk
.
This adds in the region of an extra 1.5 - 2 seconds load time.
Ideally, I would like 1 redirect, from example.co.uk
straight to https://www.example.co.uk
.
I have tried the redirection plugin but that does not seem to do anything for this sort of problem and I have a feeling that it lies within .htaccess
.
Has anyone else encountered this? Is there any proven method of minimizing the effects of redirects and reducing it to one redirect and minimizing the time the redirect takes?