We’ve all seen the studies from big websites on how speed affected their business – Amazon losing $1.6 billion in sales because of a slowdown of just a single second, for example. And you probably just thought, well, I’m not Amazon, I’m not losing billions, why should I care about a second? Let’s see what […]
Performance
Manofmany.com simple optimization report
Manofmany.com is an Australian style magazine dedicated to men. Everyday the team posts cool stuff in style, gadgets, tech, etc. After a chat with them on Google+, we gave them this simple optimization report. Loading time Different tools show different data: Chrome SEO toolbar – 7.43 sec Pingdom Tools – 12.62 dec GTMetrix – 9.86 […]
Is WooCommerce a solid e-commerce solution?
WooCommerce has grown a lot in the last few years. Many choose this solution to power their e-commerce websites. I’ve talked to people, and they said it’s easier to manage the shop than other e-commerce solutions, like Magento, Opencart or Prestashop. So, for small shops of non-technical people, WooCommerce might be the best solution. But what if […]
Is Booster for WooCommerce a buster for your e-commerce site?
I’ve recently come across this topic on WordPress.org. Someone said that Booster for WooCommerce plugin saves too many options in the wp_options table and that affects the performance of his website. I decided to test it and installed a fresh WordPress + WooCommerce + Booster for WooCommerce on a local testing environment. I installed the Storefront theme and imported the […]