Matt Schmitz is a web performance engineer and director of Dotcom-Monitor’s web performance division. Matt is a leading authority on page speed optimization and has been featured by a number of web performance blogs and media outlets. When he’s not working to make the web a faster place, Matt’s interests include gaming, cryptocurrency, and martial arts.

GZIP your website

Why Should You GZIP Your Website?

For years, content was labeled king of website optimization. As we moved deeper into the 21st Century, there was a significant shift. While content remains king of our digital realm, the queen is none other than performance. While website performance and reliability has always been a consideration for Google and visitors, the requirement for optimum…

VPS host to boost site speed

Why Use a VPS to Boost Website Speed?

This should come as no surprise that your web hosting provider plays a significant role in overall website performance. While there are literally dozens of variables responsible for the final speed of your site, if your enterprise is built upon an unreliable server, then your speed and performance will be equally unreliable. Because of the…

Guide for WP Plugin Updates

Step-by-Step Guide for WordPress Plugin Updates

The initial attraction to WordPress is not only the ease of installation and customization, but the ease and endless possibilities offered by plugins. Traditionally, achieving the level of user-engagement and dynamic content designs required significant HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP coding knowledge. As you can imagine, this caused countless aspiring website owners to either develop…

difference of css and html

What’s the Difference Between CSS and HTML?

During the late 20th Century, as the proliferation of websites for personal and business use slowly filled the dial-up connections around the country, HTML was the primary coding language. For years, in order to satisfy the limited network speeds and connectivity issues of live before high-speed internet access, there weren’t very many codes loosely flying…