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, a detailed post on LiteSpeed Cache optimal settings, and other caching plugins to supercharge your site’s performance.
This is Part 2 of the guide to Google PageSpeed Insights, and perhaps the more interesting part for many of you. In the previous part of the guide, we covered the lab data that Google PageSpeed Insights displays. In this [...]
LiteSpeed Cache’s Guest Mode is a powerful feature aimed at improving the load time for first-time visitors to your WordPress website. By delivering fully optimized cached pages before loading any personalized content (like cart items, location-based elements, or login data), [...]
AVIF is a modern image format gaining popularity among web developers for its impressive compression and visual quality. In this post, we’ll explore what AVIF is, how to use it in WordPress, and how it stacks up against WebP. AVIF [...]
When it comes to optimizing your WordPress website’s performance, the LiteSpeed Cache plugin stands out as a powerful solution, especially when running on a LiteSpeed server. With its comprehensive feature set, this plugin can dramatically improve your site’s loading speeds, [...]
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. Beyond the aesthetic and functional improvements, CSS Grid also offers significant performance benefits. This guide explores how CSS Grid impacts web performance optimization, [...]
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 and keep your stylesheets lean. If you are new [...]
The LCP, or Largest Contentful Paint, is one of the three Core Web Vitals (alongside INP and CLS). The LCP metric measures the time from when the user starts loading a page to when the largest text block or image [...]
Whether you’ve noticed it or not, in recent years, the topic of optimization and performance of websites has become a hot topic. It primarily focuses on the loading time of websites and is achieved by reducing the overall weight of [...]
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 [...]