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14 Proven Ways to Optimize CSS for Better Performance

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 [...]

Improve Frontend, Animations & Scrolling Performance

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 [...]

Load WordPress Plugins Selectively with Plugin Organizer

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 [...]

How to Remove CSS & JS files loaded by Themes & Plugins

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 [...]

How to Register ACF Fields Using PHP in WordPress

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 [...]

Optimize Performance with Lazy Loading for JavaScript

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 [...]

Optimize Critical CSS & Remove Render-Blocking Resources

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 [...]

Guide to Google PageSpeed for WordPress Users – Part 1

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 [...]

Stop Video Outside the Viewport on WordPress Sites

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 [...]

Preload Critical Assets to Improve Performance

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 [...]

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