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Field notes from real WordPress speed work. No listicles.
Why We Rebuilt wpspeedopt.net as a Static Site
The numbers behind moving wpspeedopt.net from WordPress to a static Astro build: what we kept, what changed, and when the same choice would be wrong.
Case Study: Taking a 4-Country Bank Site from PageSpeed 50 to 90+
A 14-month Core Web Vitals case study: taking tbi bank's four country WordPress sites from a PageSpeed mobile score of 50 into the 90s, and keeping them
6 Best WordPress Image Optimization Plugins (Free + Paid)
How to Choose the Right Image Optimization Plugin By optimizing your images on WordPress, you’ll speed up load times and improve user experience.
Why you should Self-Host Google Fonts
How Google Fonts actually loads (CSS first, then font files) and why self-hosting with woff2 preloading is faster and better for Core Web Vitals.
WP Rocket Review - Worth It In 2021?
Anyone with any experience managing a WordPress site will have learned that a free caching plugin is not always optimal when loading your pages quickly.
Why You Shouldn’t Use a Slider on WordPress?
Why You Shouldn’t Use a Slider on WordPress. Sliders and web performance are far from a match made in heaven.
How to Reduce Total Blocking Time (TBT) on WordPress
How to reduce Total Blocking Time on WordPress: defer and delay JavaScript, prefetch DNS, minify, and measure long tasks the way Lighthouse does.
Advantages of custom themes for WordPress
Finished WordPress themes vs custom builds: when a static-file theme wins on speed, security, and maintenance, and when it does not.
Why is HTTPS Important?
When you don’t have SSL enabled, all data transferred from your browser to the web server is available for someone who knows what they are doing to intercept.
What’s Minification and What It Means ?
Minification literally means stripping out un-needed parts of CSS and JS (JavaScript) files to make them more compact.
What is Critical CSS?
What critical CSS is, how it removes render-blocking styles, and why it fixes the eliminate-render-blocking warning in PageSpeed Insights.
Best SEO Plugins For WordPress
Best SEO Plugins For WordPress, WP Rocket, Yoast SEO,All in One SEO Pack (with WooCommerce add-on), Imagify, Google Tag Manager, WordPress