Cloudflare just announced their new automatic platform optimization tool for WordPress. After writing about its release, we wanted to test it out on our own website to get some quantitative data about the impact that it would have on a WordPress installation. Our website is created with Oxygen Builder, and uses WP Rocket as well […]
Many times the Cloudflare Total Unique Visitors count is much different than Google Analytics Unique Visitors Count. In this article, we're going to figure out why. If you've recently checked your Cloudflare analytics tab, you may have been greeted with surprising data. The Cloudflare analytics tab displays three major statistics. Total unique visitors, maximum unique […]
“Try resetting your cache.” What does that mean?! Read this article first as it applies to 80% of caching issues. If this doesn’t help, read this As server side caching, not browser caching, could be because of your issue. Resetting your cache in WordPress is one of the most common ways to fix formatting issues […]
This post is going to take a look at what critical CSS is, why it's important on your website, and how you can use it to speed up the perceived loading time of your pages. This is one of the core principles of any fast website, so understanding the terminology and theory behind critical CSS […]
In this article, we're going to introduce a method that we use to speed up Third Party JavaScript on our WordPress websites. You can usually identify the impact that third party scripts are having on your website loading times by using a tool such as Google PageSpeed or GT metrics. If a script is severely […]
In this article we're going to discuss how to use WP Rocket to optimize your WordPress website. We will be taking a step by step look at how to use this plugin to pass the most commonly failed PageSpeed audits. We've ordered this article by most common audit to fail to least common audit to […]
In this article, we're going to discuss the common causes of a Google PageSpeed performance score being a question question mark. Sometimes, when you generate a Google PageSpeed report (the same goes for Lighthouse) there will be an error, and your performance score will display as a question question mark. We recently had this issue […]
In late May 2020, Google began transitioning towards a more user experience oriented search. In the coming months, the search engine algorithm will begin incorporating user experience (as well as website speed and content quality) when ranking pages. You may have noticed a new metric called First Input Delay On Google PageSpeed. First Input Delay […]
In this article we're going to discuss what real world data (field data) in Google PageSpeed is, and how you can use it to improve your websites speed, user experience, and ranking. In this article, we're going to be using the terms real world data, field data, and real user monitoring (RUM) interchangeably. If the […]
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