We agree that implementing Cloudflare is one of the quickest ways to speed up and add security to your website. Cloudflare is loved by millions of website to decrease the web page load time and protect from online threats including DDoS. If you heard Cloudflare for the first time then this article is for you. […]
If YouTube or Vimeo embeds are slowing down your site, this guide is for you. Why YouTube/Vimeo Video Embeds are Slow? When you embed a YouTube or Vimeo video, it creates an iframe and loads several resources. Downloads an HTML file, one CSS, two/three (heavy) JS files which are more than 500KB Extra DNS lookups […]
This is a step-by-step guide to using SUCURI Security plugin to protect and speed up a WordPress site. What is SUCURI Security Plugin Two most important metrics for any site is Performance & Security. However, one of the quickest and cost-effective ways to supercharge your WordPress site and add protection is by using cloud-based security […]
Optimizing your site’s images is vital for keeping performance high without sacrificing quality. As such, it helps to have dedicated tools on hand to make the process easier and more effective – especially if you run an image-heavy site. Fortunately, there are many methods available to “shrink” your image’s file size. For example, there are […]
Redis is an open-source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache and message broker. It can be combined with other databases like MySQL to provide a mechanism to cache your queries. In this article, we’ll show how to cache the MySQL queries that are required to render WordPress pages. This will […]
One of the most important parts of building a blog/website is to optimize the page loading speed. There are so many ways, but we have stressed a whole lot about using CDN. In this article, I will explain in detail the CDN and why the CDN helps your blog increase the security and speed of […]
Optimize, optimize, optimize. That’s what you should be doing with your website. If you don’t optimize, you’ll spend more of your time, and more of your money in some cases, creating more content, content that won’t convert because you aren’t optimizing your site for visitor engagement. If you don’t increase visitor engagement on your site, […]
Using Gzip allows HTML, JS and CSS files to be compressed, reducing the size of transferred files by up to 70%. This results in shorter loading times for your website. Especially for visitors accessing your website with relatively slow connections (using their smartphones for example), the compression can lead to noticeably better client performance. In […]
The role of web animation has evolved from mere decorative fluff to serving concrete purposes in the context of user experience — such as providing visual feedback as users interact with your app, directing users’ attention to fulfill your app’s goals, offering visual cues that help users make sense of your app’s interface, and so […]
This article was originally published on the Delicious Brains blog, and is republished here with permission. You know that a fast site == happier users, improved ranking from Google, and increased conversions. Maybe you even think your WordPress site is as fast as it can be: you’ve looked at site performance, from the best practices […]
Adding lazy load to your WordPress website is an effective tool to speed up your WordPress website. We have written extensively (we even made a case study) about how slow page loading speed negatively effects conversions, SEO, and other markers for online success. The faster your site loads, the better. Two of the most important […]