Want to boost your website’s loading speed? Faster page load times greatly enhance user experience, increase page views, improve conversion rates, and even support better Google rankings and SEO.
In this category, you’ll find practical guides on improving overall site performance, especially for WordPress. Discover tips to speed up WordPress loading times, methods to test performance, and ways to boost speed using various optimization techniques. You’ll also find a complete guide to WP-Rocket and other caching plugins to supercharge your site’s performance.
Everyone who reads my blog knows I have OCD when it comes to optimizing and improving the speed of WordPress sites. If you’ve stumbled upon this article, chances are you’re trying to figure out why your WordPress site is slow. [...]
CSS Grid has transformed web design, making it easier to create complex, responsive layouts with less code. However, beyond the aesthetic and functional improvements, CSS Grid also offers significant performance benefits. This comprehensive guide explores how CSS Grid impacts web [...]
Optimizing your website’s performance involves many aspects, and one critical area is managing the Document Object Model (DOM) size. A lean, efficient DOM enhances rendering speed, reduces memory usage, and improves overall user experience. If Google PageSpeed Insights flags your [...]
Optimizing CSS for performance can significantly speed up page load times, reduce bandwidth usage, and enhance the overall user experience. Here are several techniques you can use to write performant CSS: FYI – If you are new to CSS and [...]
The LCP, or Largest Contentful Paint, is one of the three Core Web Vitals we are all familiar with. The LCP metric measures the time from when the user starts loading a page to when the largest text block or [...]
Whether you’ve noticed it or not, in recent years, the topic of optimization and performance of websites has become a hot topic. The topic primarily focuses on the loading time of websites and is achieved by reducing the overall weight [...]
There are quite a few ways to improve the loading time of WordPress sites which I have written about in previous articles. However, there is one action I do not see being performed often by WordPress developers, which is selectively [...]
One of the most common questions I encounter is how to improve the loading speed of WordPress sites. This is probably because studies show that 47% of users expect the loading time to be less than two seconds, and about [...]
One of the most annoying things in WordPress is plugins and themes that load their own scripts and style files (CSS & JS) without checking or any condition determining if there’s even a need to load them. For example, a [...]
Registering ACF fields using PHP reduces the number of database reads and enables the use of Version Control like GIT and similar. The option to define fields via code decreases the chance of losing information that exists in a normal [...]
The script that activates the search option on Savvy Blog is loaded only when the user clicks on the search icon in the top bar. So, the functionality of the search is not particularly complex or anything like that, but [...]
If you’ve used Google PageSpeed Insights before, I assume you’ve encountered a stage where a comment indicates that you need to “Eliminate Render-Blocking Resources” as it is one of the common messages you encounter in PSI. In this post, I [...]