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 [...]
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 [...]