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Performance

Why speed matters

April 16, 2018 Leave a Comment

speed-matters

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 […]

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How to clean up your WordPress database

February 18, 2018 11 Comments

Almost all WordPress websites I have seen had bloated databases. I think this is pretty normal; nobody was born an expert in building super efficient and optimized sites. When I started using WordPress, I changed themes every month, and I tested a lot of plugins. I used to read those “top 21 must have plugins” articles, […]

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How to optimize images for the web: tips, tricks and best practices

February 18, 2018 2 Comments

One of the factors that might slow down your website is using big photos that are unoptimized for the web. Sometimes when people try to publish something quickly, they upload photos directly from their photo cameras, at very high resolution, pictures that weight as much as 4-5 MB. An optimized image has fewer kilobytes without any […]

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The easiest way to make your WordPress faster & more scalable

February 18, 2018 5 Comments

Making WordPress faster starts with a rock-solid foundation: a high-performance hosting solution and well-coded themes & plugins. But even if you’re on shared hosting you can have a faster website. The easiest thing you can do to start making your WordPress website faster is to use a caching plugin. When you use a caching plugin, […]

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How to identify WordPress performance problems

December 12, 2017 1 Comment

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So, you have a WordPress website, and you feel it loads too slow, and you would like to make it faster. There are quite a few tools to test your website’s speed/performance: Pingdom Tools GTMetrix WebPageTest Pagespeed Insights You can use Pingdom Tools to see the loading time of the elements. For example, the long yellow line […]

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Is WooCommerce a solid e-commerce solution?

May 23, 2017 Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Is Booster for WooCommerce a buster for your e-commerce site?

February 28, 2017 6 Comments

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 […]

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