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GeneratePress vs Astra – Which One Should You Use? 2022
Trying to decide between GeneratePress vs Astra as your WordPress site’s theme? Astra and GeneratePress are two of the best premium WordPress themes right now. If you’re looking for the best bang for the buck, you can not really go wrong with either of these themes. But if you had to compare Astra vs GeneratePress which one comes out…
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WordPress and Scalability: A Brief Guide
From a niche blogging network to the biggest content management system powering almost one-third of all websites, WordPress’s success is a textbook case of how a tech platform can capitalize on its strengths and gradually shed its weaknesses. Among WordPress’s many strengths that have become its USPs over the years, WordPress’s scalability functions are undoubtedly…
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12 Ways To Reduce Total Blocking Time In WordPress -PSI
Need to reduce your total blocking time in WordPress? Total blocking time is caused by long tasks (over 50ms) that block the main thread. For WordPress sites, total blocking time is usually caused by unoptimized JavaScript and CSS (often from plugins, page builders, or third-party code) as well as fonts, animations, and images. Optimizing JavaScript is a good…
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Low Score In Google PageSpeed Insights Or Lighthouse Mobile Test?
We get emails every day from website owners, telling us their site is fast but slow on mobile. Nine time out of ten they’ve tested their site on Google PageSpeed Insights (PSI) and the mobile score is low. Long story short, a low PageSpeed Score in mobile does not mean your site is slow on…
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Top 10 Best WordPress Cache Plugins (2022 Detailed Comparison)
Let’s settle this “best cache plugin” thing once and for all. Your WordPress cache plugin depends on which host you use. On a LiteSpeed server, LiteSpeed Cache is the way to go. On SiteGround, use SG Optimizer. In most other instances, I recommend WP Rocket. Otherwise, if you’re not willing to spend money on WP…
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How to avoid network payloads In WordPress
Let’s talk about enormous network payloads in PageSpeed Insights. This is triggered when the total page size is above 1,600 KiB. To pass this test, you need to reduce page size. Large page size is often caused by unoptimized images, videos, third-party code, or heavy CSS and JavaScript files. It can also be from slow page builders (specifically Elementor…
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How to Load Test a WordPress Website or Stress Test Your Website
Understanding Load Testing | Browser Load Testing | Stress Test of Website What is load testing? Load testing is bench-marking a website to see how it performs under various loads. For example, a test may simulate an increasing number of concurrent visitors landing on your site. It will also record how your site handles them…
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Fastest WordPress Hosting Providers in 2022
On the hunt for the fastest WordPress hosting provider to serve up your WordPress site? You’ve probably heard about the importance of making your website load fast. It makes your visitors happier; it helps with SEO…it’s just generally really important. And while yeah, there are all kinds of WordPress performance tips you can implement to…
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WordPress Plugin and Cloudflare Worker
In order to create great User Experience (UX), websites should always load fast. I mean immediately! It’s really tough to achieve instant results. AMP is one of the ways Google is trying to speed up the entire internet. But there’re simply so many steps we need to achieve in order to achieve speed. For every…
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How To Reduce Server Response Time Waiting (TTFB)
To be blunt, most articles on the web written about reducing waiting TTFB are complete garbage and written by content writers who have no technical or speed optimization experience and are simply parroting what everyone else says online. In this article, we’ll share the troubleshooting steps and recommendations we’ve created after optimizing 100’s of WordPress…
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How to Serve WebP Format Images in WordPress
WebP is a modern format for serving images faster than ever. If you are using WordPress, you can easily serve all images in WebP with some basic tweaks. Most Browsers support WebP According to Caniuse data, WebP is currently supported in 91% browsers include Apple Safari, Google Chrome, Opera, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Android browsers. You can still serve JPEG/PNG as…
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Why you should Self-Host Google Fonts?
Web and browsers are evolving fast! Many optimizations we did a few years are ago now outdated or not recommended. Delivering Google Fonts to get maximum performance has also changed recently as browsers implemented new features. This post is specifically on why you should self-host Google Fonts. Outdated Performance Arguments Argument: Browsers will already have…
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How To Use Cookie-Free Domains with Cloudflare in WordPress- CDN
Seeing “Use cookie-free domains” error at GTmetrix Yslow or Pingdom for your site? GTmetrix report Why use Cookie Free Domains? When the browser requests a static element and sends cookies with the request, the server ignores the cookies. These cookies are unnecessary network traffic. It increases page load time. Therefore, it is better to avoid…
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14 Tools We Use to Audit Performance of a WordPress site
Performance is not just about “my site loads under x seconds”. There are several other factors you need to look into. Here is a list of tools and services I use to audit or test the performance of a WordPress site. Not just WordPress, these can be used for any site. 1. Your Eyes –…
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How to avoid an excessive dom size in wordpress
If you’re reading this article, chances are you’ve run into an “Avoid an excessive DOM size” warning from Google Lighthouse. Part of selecting a good theme choice in WordPress is to avoid an excessive DOM size. Before you install the theme on your website, do some research on other websites that utilize it. Verify the…
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9 Tips to Improve First Contentful Paint in WordPress- FCP
In early 2019, Google announced that they would evaluate a website’s speed ranking by focusing on two performance metrics: First Contentful Paint (FCP) and First Input Delay (FID). Over time, the performance scenario has evolved. For instance, Google announced the three Core Web Vitals: Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), and First Input…
