by Andy | Feb 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
If you’ve gone through everything in this guide and still aren’t happy with your load speed you’re going to have to do some testing to figure what’s slowing it down. There are many tools out there to test your load speeds. Here are a few to get you started: –...
by Andy | Feb 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
If you’re updating your website regularly, it’s likely you have lots of rows in your database which aren’t being used anymore. These can come from plugins you no longer use, old revisions of pages, spam comments, just to name a few. These rows which aren’t even being...
by Andy | Feb 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
Every time you add a plugin you’re adding more files for your website to load. This is is okay for pages where they need the functionality of that plugin, but often these files load on pages where you aren’t even using the plugin, so they’re adding load time when...
by Andy | Oct 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
Which DNS provider you use has a very small effect on your speed, so feel free to skip this part as it might only save you 100ms and if you have limited time it’ll be better spent on other areas of optimization. DNS stands for Domain Name System, and is an...
by Andy | Oct 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
When a user loads your website, they’re downloading the files from your server to then display the website in their browser. The further away they are from your server geographically, the further the files have to travel, and the longer the page will take to...
by Andy | Oct 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
Minification is the process of removing unnecessary data from files without affecting the functionality of the file. Compressing is the process of reducing the size of a file (like a zip file). Both these methods are ultimately used to reduce the size of files, which...
