Sooner or later, anyone trying to speed up a WordPress site ends up asking whether they should go with Redis or Memcached. Google it and you’ll get benchmark graphs, forum threads that go on for pages, and guides written for…
Three <link> tags. Nearly identical names. And a surprising number of WordPress sites using them backwards. It’s easy to see why. Preload, prefetch, and preconnect sound like one idea wearing three different hats. They’re not, and swapping one for another…
Your homepage scores 95 on PageSpeed Insights. Your caching plugin is active and green across the board. Everything checks out. And yet, if you actually looked at what’s happening in the background, you might find that a good chunk of…
Here’s something most site owners don’t think about: where their visitors are. Picture someone in Sydney opening a website hosted in the US. Before the page can appear, their request has to travel across the Pacific, wait for the server,…
If your WordPress site has been live for more than a year or two, it’s probably slower today than the day you launched it. Not because anything broke. Because nothing did, and that’s exactly the problem. Performance issues that show…
Someone lands on your homepage. Four seconds pass. They’re gone before your headline even finishes rendering. You won’t see this in your analytics as one alarming red flag. It shows up as a bounce rate that’s a few points higher…
You open a website for the first time and it takes a couple of seconds to settle. You come back to the same page ten minutes later and it shows up almost instantly. The page itself is identical. So what…
You run your homepage through PageSpeed Insights. Desktop comes back green at 92. You click the Mobile tab and it drops to 55. Same page. Same server. Same code. The first assumption is usually that something is broken on mobile.…
Someone clicks a link to your site. A moment later, they’re reading your page. In between, a surprising amount happens. And almost every performance problem you’ve ever read about lives at one specific point in that sequence. That’s the useful…
Most WordPress performance tools promise the same three things. Faster pages. Better scores. An easy setup. That doesn’t tell you what you actually need to know, which is whether the thing will work with your hosting, your theme, your WooCommerce…
We’re excited to introduce User-Agent Exclusions in FastPixel 1.9.0! This new feature helps prevent bots, crawlers, and monitoring services from triggering page optimization and consuming your FastPixel pageviews. Here’s how it works and how to set it up. What is…
If you’ve been running W3 Total Cache, you’re used to having control over every layer of your optimization stack. That may include caching methods chosen for your host, minification rules adjusted over time, CDN fields filled in manually, and exclusions…
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