An overwhelming abundance of evidence indicates that responsiveness and speed are the two essential factors that determine the website’s performance on all devices. Hence, the primary role of page load speed in responsive themes is to ensure users don’t have to wait for more than a few fractions of a second for a page to [...]
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If there’s one thing I’ve learned from the Internet, it’s this: People want things fast. They want Amazon to deliver packages in under 2 seconds. They want to binge watch entire TV shows the second they get released. And they definitely want sites to load rocket fast.
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Interested in a powerful way to speed up your site’s global load times? Using Cloudflare full-page caching for WordPress lets you serve your entire WordPress site from Cloudflare’s huge global network, which offers impressively consistent (and fast) global load times. However, if you want to avoid breaking your WordPress site, you’ll need to properly configure ... Read more
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Page speed and security should be two issues on the mind of every WordPress site owner. We wrote a huge post about WordPress and page speed back in 2014. And since then, page speed has only gotten more important. Users want sites to load fast - 30% of people want sites to load in under one second. And if your site doesn’t, they’re probably going to go somewhere else.
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Speed is key on the Internet. Whether you want more conversions, more search traffic, or more satisfied users, it pays to optimize your WordPress site for speed. But if you’ve already checked off the big boxes like using a CDN and optimizing your image sizes, how can you eek out even more speed? One way is to implement lazy loading for your images.
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Struggling with a slow Largest Contentful Paint speed on your WordPress site? Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is one of three metrics in Google’s new Core Web Vitals initiative. Beyond being an indicator of user experience, Google will also start using Largest Contentful Paint (and the other metrics) as an SEO ranking factor starting in 2021. ... Read more How to Fix Largest Contentful Paint Time on WordPress (Speed Up)
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If you’re a WordPress user, you’re going to start hearing the term Google Core Web Vitals a lot in the coming months and years. Core Web Vitals are Google’s latest attempt to spearhead change on the Internet. They’re a set of performance and user experience metrics that will become an SEO ranking factor next year, ... Read more Google Core Web Vitals for WordPress: What You Need to Know
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Did you know that WordPress saves a copy of your post every single time you hit the Save Draft button in the WordPress editor? Left unchecked, these save points, called WordPress Post revisions, can bloat your WordPress site’s database with unnecessary content. In this post, we’ll first explain why you shouldn’t let your site store ... Read more How to Disable or Limit WordPress Post Revisions (Plus Why)
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Want to speed up your WordPress site without breaking the bank? After you’ve made all the other basic WordPress speed optimizations, one of the best ways to shave some additional percentage points off of your site’s loading times is to implement a CDN.
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With major search engines like Google placing a high priority on site speed and performance when determining search rankings, WordPress Content Delivery Network (CDN) services have never been more valuable to today’s website owners. Used correctly, they can significantly reduce the time it takes to load your site, providing a better overall experience for your ... Read more The Complete Guide to Free and Paid WordPress CDN Services
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