Unless your site is strictly for personal use, you’ve likely spent time and energy learning about the best SEO techniques as they relate to WordPress. Without maintaining current and optimized SEO tactics, it’s far too easy to find your website buried among countless other sites. While search engine optimization has always been a hot topic…
As we draw closer to the second decade of the 21st Century, one thing is strikingly clear: speed is truly king of the digital world. From desktop to mobile devices, failure to adhere to the ever-decreasing duration of acceptable page load times means failure to remain competitive. As 2018 began, Google made a series of…
What’s the most important contributing factor for online success? Quality, useful content? Dynamic visual guides? No-nonsense product and/or service offerings? If you chose any of the aformentioned, you’re only half-right. While each of these elements work together to bolster website value, without optimized speed the quality of your content or visual design is moot. Not…
From choosing the perfect design layout to refining your content marketing technique, your website is the physical manifestation of your labor of love. So, when its pages load slowly and elements take forever to respond, it’s no surprise that many website owners instantly go into panic mode. In our current digital realm, website speed is…
As a website owner, trying to pay attention to the various components responsible for ultimately creating an engaging, high-ranking and profitable site can feel like trying to cross the Atlantic in a paddleboat. To put it plainly, website management is hard work. Even though there are dozens, if not hundreds, of individual elements that must…
If there’s one thing that both Google and Internet users agree on it’s page load time. Even if your website is filled with unique, valuable and insightful products and content, a slow page load time is the absolute fastest way to experience the cold shoulder from both Almighty Google and audiences. As we move deeper…
As a website owner, few situations are as infuriating, and confusing, as opening your website only to be greeted by an HTTP error code. Unless you’re well-versed in the backend infrastructure and network configuration aspect of operating a website, these error codes might as well be written in an ancient tongue. Perhaps the most confusing…
When you think of a slow WordPress site, it’s common to automatically image dreadfully long page load times. While the majority of effort and concentration is focused on boosting on-page response times, frontend performance isn’t the only area of your WordPress site capable of moving at the speed of sloth. Slow WordPress admin areas, also…
Do you remember the early days of the internet? It seems as if it was several lifetimes ago, but in reality, the era of dial-up network connections and extremely slow navigation was only a couple of decades ago. My, how times have changed. As we push into the second decade of the 21st Century, our…
It should come as no surprise that a website’s speed directly influences not only organic traffic, but revenue and conversion rates. The importance of a website’s speed and functionality should never be understated. Aren’t convinced? Simply ask the millions of websites who fail each year due to sluggish speeds and underwhelming traffic rates. While we…
504 Error – HTTP Bad Gateway Timeout Technology. When it’s good, it’s great, but when it’s bad, it’s a pain in the you-know-what. There’s nothing as frustrating and confusing as a fully functioning website one minute, followed by a completely inaccessible site the next. As you sit in disbelief trying to recount your previous front…
Perhaps one of the most frequently asked WordPress question is whether or not inactive plugins affect site performance? Since the quest for the fastest and most reliable website is shared by almost every WordPress enterprise, many newcomers are questioning the performance impact of any WordPress element – active or not. It’s not uncommon to download…
Since 2010, website speed and performance has continued to grow in ranking influence. As internet connectivity grows and network capabilities support faster and greater access to digital content, the need for swifter and higher-performing websites simultaneously grows. Of course, we aren’t just talking about a small boost in page loading times. Nearly half of all…
You’ve spent countless hours crafting and refining your WordPress site. After all this time, the moment of truth has finally come. Your WordPress site is ready to be released into the vast abyss of the World Wide Web. Once your site goes live, you sit back and appreciate your creation. But, wait, something’s wrong, Instead…
How many times have you wished there was simply more hours to the day? Are you feeling like you’re never capable of producing CSS development of stylesheets in a timely fashion? Maybe it’s not because you’re simply a slow programmer. Have you considered the main reason for your sluggish development isn’t your skill, but your…