We are continuing our exploration of video from Smashing Conferences this year with two videos that explore the impact of third party scripts. These scripts can add functionality, and give us valuable information, but what do they cost?
These two talks will help you to assess the third party scripts you might be considering adding to a site,
Measuring the loading time of your WordPress site is obviously a critical step in optimizing for speed. You have to be able to find where the bottlenecks are and where you can achieve the easiest and biggest performance “wins”. There are numerous tools, such as Pingdom, GTmetrix etc, available for measuring the performance of your site,
You have such a small margin of time when a new visitor comes to your site, you have to ensure that it’s running as fast as possible. That means that they’ve got to be able to find exactly what they need when they arrive, or you risk them clicking away.
Here are seven tips that will help you speed up your WordPress site,
You know you need a fast website. Your visitors don’t want to wait, Google rewards speed, and you just want to create the best site you can.
We previously talked about some strategies for speeding your site in our article How to Optimize Your WordPress Site’s Performance. One key strategy we covered in that article is caching.
There are a lot of options you have as a website owner when it comes to running speed tests to check performance. Previously we took an in-depth look at the Pingdom tool. Today we want to dive into how to better use and understand the data from the popular website speed test tool GTmetrix.
Average page weight reached 2,884kb in May 2017. Research by Google DoubleClick reported an average load time of 19 seconds on mobile devices. Yet performance matters more than ever:
User Frustration
Users will not wait. According to research by the Aberdeen Group, every one second delay results in:
Do you want to eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in WordPress? If you test your website on Google PageSpeed insights, then you will likely see a suggestion to eliminate render-blocking scrips and CSS. In this article, we will show you how to easily fix render blocking JavaScript and CSS in WordPress to improve your Google PageSpeed score.
A very common scenario when dealing with WordPress is diagnosing high admin-ajax.php usage. If you have been working with WordPress for a while, you have most likely encountered this when running speed tests or checking your server access logs. This is generally caused by 3rd party plugins or from frequent un-cachable admin dashboard requests, due to the Heartbeat API,
Learning how to make WordPress faster is an essential skill for every website owner. Website performance is a big part of usability and a sluggish site one of the best ways to drive away visitors and lose search rankings.
We have already published a detailed article on how to make your WordPress website faster.
Your WordPress host could be lightning fast, but it isn’t always a magic wand for horribly coded or un-optimized plugins and themes. We see this all the time here at Kinsta. Sometimes even just one bad plugin or snippet of code can be your site’s worst enemy, and bring everything to a crawl. That is why we monitor our customers sites constantly with New Relic tracking and even have a banned plugin list.
