One of the most common performance issues in WordPress is plugins and themes loading their own scripts and stylesheets (CSS & JS) on every page, without checking whether those assets are actually needed. For example, a plugin that only works [...]
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. The functionality of the search is not particularly complex, but do you see a reason [...]
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 [...]
Google PageSpeed Insights (PSI for short) is a useful tool for website developers. Its intentions are certainly good, but it can be said that it is not suitable for the average WordPress site owner. Despite the recent addition of specific [...]
In one of the projects I worked on, a considerable number of videos (video) were required on specific pages. Some of those videos needed to span the entire width of the screen, while others, smaller ones, were placed in a [...]
There are many ways to improve a website performance. One of the ways is to preload specific files that you know will be required later and are essential for the quick rendering of the page. The preload value of the [...]
CSS Containment is a module that describes a CSS property called contain. This property allows developers to isolate a specific element’s subtree in the DOM and treat it as independent and separate from the rest of the elements in the [...]
Google Analytics 4 (GA4) uses the gtag.js library, loaded from Google’s servers with a cache expiration of just two hours. Speed testing tools like Google PageSpeed Insights and GTmetrix flag this as a “Serve static assets with an efficient cache [...]
The plugin WP-Rocket currently serves more than 4 million WordPress websites, and the results it provides in terms of website performance are quite impressive. It is very user-friendly and offers several features that you won’t find in other plugins. In [...]
One of the most frustrating things that happen to us when browsing a website is unexpected and sudden changes on a page. Such changes can be a suddenly appearing popup, content that shifts suddenly in the middle of reading, or [...]
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