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Should You Give Your Website a Bonus…or a Pink Slip? How would your website score in an annual performance review?

January 10, 2018 by Sallie Goetsch Leave a Comment

pink slip (layoff notice) stock photo
This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series Checking Up on Your Website

How would your website score in an employee performance review? Your website should be working for you 24/7. Make sure it’s not slacking on the job. Continue Reading Should You Give Your Website a Bonus…or a Pink Slip? How would your website score in an annual performance review?

Filed Under: WordPress Consulting Tagged With: Performance

WP-Tonic 105: Speeding Up WordPress From Slow Dog To Young Speed Machine

July 6, 2016 by Sallie Goetsch Leave a Comment

WP-Tonic 105: Speeding up WordPress
This entry is part 2 of 30 in the series WP-Tonic Roundtable

The key ingredients for WordPress performance that we discussed in WP-Tonic 105 are hosting (because the most important optimization happens on the server side), using a CDN, caching plugins, image compression, and eliminating unnecessary overhead (unused or poorly-coded plugins, for instance). Continue Reading WP-Tonic 105: Speeding Up WordPress From Slow Dog To Young Speed Machine

Filed Under: Using WordPress Tagged With: Performance, WP-Tonic Live

So how much faster IS PHP 7?

December 9, 2015 by Sallie Goetsch 5 Comments

GTMetrix test results with PHP 7 and WP Rocket

Switching to PHP 7 didn’t make my site 3x faster–but it did shave 1.2 seconds off my page load time, and I was able to improve that further with WP Rocket. Continue Reading So how much faster IS PHP 7?

Filed Under: Hosting and Servers Tagged With: CloudFlare, Caching, Performance

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