Website Speed
Website Speed Optimization Cost: What Drives the Price
Two sites that look alike can need very different amounts of speed work. What you are paying for, what makes the job…
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Guides to website speed and performance: Core Web Vitals, testing, images, caching, code, hosting, WordPress and WooCommerce.
Website Speed
Multilingual WordPress Site Slow? Causes and Fixes
Translation plugins put their extra work in different places. Here is how each approach affects speed, and how to make caching work…
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Is Bot Traffic Slowing Your Website? Read the Logs First
Crawlers, scrapers and login attackers use the same server resources as customers. Here is how to find them in your logs and…
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Is Your Live Chat Widget Slowing Your Website?
A chat bubble can be the heaviest thing on a phone page. How to measure what your widget costs and keep chat…
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Caching Plugin Broke My Site: Safe Rollback and Fixes
Most breakage after enabling a caching plugin comes from its CSS and JavaScript options, not caching. How to roll back safely and…
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Image Dimensions vs File Size: Resize Before You Upload
Pixels and kilobytes are different problems. How they relate, what width each kind of image needs, and a quick routine for resizing…
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Reduce HTTP Requests: Which Ones Actually Matter
The old advice was to cut every request you could. HTTP/2 changed that. How to count your page's requests and cut the…
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First Contentful Paint Explained: FCP vs LCP
FCP records the moment a blank screen first shows content. Here is how it differs from LCP, what delays it and when…
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Website Slow After a Redesign? Why New Sites Get Heavier
Redesigns are judged on looks, rarely on speed. Why new sites end up heavier, how to fix one already live and what…
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Wix Website Slow? Fixes for Wix and Squarespace Sites
On Wix and Squarespace you cannot touch the server or the platform code, but images, video, apps, embeds and fonts are yours.…
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