If you’ve been around WordPress for a while you are also very much familiar with page builders. They are known for two things: Giving you the freedom to create a drag-and-drop site rather than having to script it from scratch They are heavy – creating a lot more load on your website (in terms of […] View original post at …
The Slowest WordPress Plugins (and Alternatives to Try Instead)
We all know that performance and speed are a critical part of how visitors perceive their experience on a website. That’s why we use optimized web hosting plans, install CDNs, and utilize caching plugins to keep WordPress sites running quickly and smoothly. For some of your clients, however, paying for VPS or managed WordPress hosting […] View original post at …
Hummingbird Speed Optimization Plugin Now Free at WordPress.org
Got a serious need for speed? Satisfy it – for free! – with Hummingbird. We’re excited to announce today that our speed optimization plugin is now available to download at WordPress.org. Hummingbird is the ultimate performance optimization plugin for WordPress. Once activated, it scans your site for potential speed improvements and provides fine-tuned controls for […] View original post at …
Beyond Speed: 5 (More) Reasons Why You Should be Using a CDN
You’ve probably already heard about CDNs, you know, they help make your website faster. Yet, you might feel that after paying for web hosting, why should you pay the same amount (or more!) for a CDN? Shouldn’t your hosting already do all of this stuff? There’s a significant difference between the infrastructure required for hosting […] View original post at …
Making Your WordPress Website Fly: A Performance Optimization Tutorial
Whether you’re working for a client or developing your own WordPress projects, you don’t need me to tell you that speed matters. A lot. And contrary to the well-known cliche, it’s really the lack of speed that kills when it comes to the web. If you depend on WordPress for your livelihood, then it had better perform: Ignore site speed …
The Best Caching Plugins for WordPress You’ve Never Heard Of
What caching plugin do you use? There’s a good chance it’s either W3 Total Cache, WP Super Cache, or WP Rocket. However, while those three plugins get the most press and sport the largest user bases, they’re far from the only useful caching plugins for WordPress. If you’re open to looking at other options, the WordPress plugin directory offers quite …
The Ultimate Guide to W3 Total Cache: Works-Every-Time Settings for Shared Web Hosting
Shared hosting isn’t the ideal environment for speeding up WordPress with W3 Total Cache. There are features that just don’t work well on a shared server. In addition, if you run into server configuration issues there isn’t much you can do about it if your site is hosted on a shared server. In an ideal WordPress world, every WordPress website …
The Ultimate Guide to W3 Total Cache: All Your Questions Answered
Most W3 Total Cache users have a love-hate relationship with the plugin. When it works the way it’s supposed to, it’s all love as page load time is reduced by leaps and bounds. However, when things go wrong, the plugin can be frustratingly (and notoriously) hard to deal with. In this article we’ll look at the issues that crop up …
How Fast Is Your WordPress Site? Find out with These Free Speed Testing Tools
How long does it take for your WordPress website to load? Two seconds? Three seconds? Heaven forbid, more than four seconds? If you don’t know, there’s a good chance that a slow-loading website is costing you pageviews and conversions. The first step to fixing any problem is admitting that you have a problem. But how do find out if you …