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I'm a NameHero team member, and an expert on WordPress and web hosting. I've been in this industry since 2008. I've also developed apps on Android and have written extensive tutorials on managing Linux servers. You can contact me on my website WP-Tweaks.com!
With Google’s major Core Web Vitals ranking update almost upon us, it’s time to reflect on whatever we can do to improve our page’s performance. I’ve written extensively about the importance of the Time to First Byte (TTFB), and its role in reducing the related metric of Largest Contentful Paint (LCP). For example, getting your […]
I’ve made no secret of the fact that I wait for around 4 days before I update plugins on my site. The reason is simple – I want to avoid any bugs that come with new updates. So for me, 4 days is the minimum time I wait since the last change. You won’t believe […]
Updated: November 15, 2023 When you switch your DNS servers to Cloudflare, all your traffic to your main domain is proxied through Cloudflare. However, if you add subdomains, it doesn’t automatically route that traffic as well. Rather watch a video instead of diving into our guide? Check it out! If you’re on shared hosting, you […]
With Google’s Core Web Vitals’ deadline in May drawing every closer, website owners are becoming more and more desperate to get the “green” lines in their search consoles like this: Unfortunately, they’re finding that getting a good score on all these following metrics is really hard! Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) First […]
I perform a regular audit of the traffic hitting the origin server on my site WP-Tweaks, to see which requests are using the most resources. For a while now, I’ve noticed that feeds were the cause of a large number of requests. So if your website is: example.com/ Then your feed URL is likely: example.com/feed/ […]
Over at NameHero, we’re quite proud of our integration with LiteSpeed. It’s much faster compared to Apache, and brings a host of benefits such as dynamic caching. With the introduction of QUIC.cloud, the value of LiteSpeed web hosting has skyrocketed. And since the functionality is somewhat similar to Cloudflare, it’s natural to ask what the […]
Google has been pushing its new Google Analytics 4 (GA4) for a while now. It’s been urging website owners to upgrade their existing Universal Analytics code and to run the GA4 code side by side. I first tried it out months ago, and then deleted the account because I followed Google’s advice and tried to […]
It’s received wisdom in the web hosting world, that the standard progression of hosting goes like this: Shared Hosting -> VPS Hosting -> Dedicated Servers But is this always true? Is a VPS is always better than any and all shared hosting? In my opinion, no. There are situations where shared hosting is objectively better. […]
Last night when checking my analytics, I saw a massive spike in traffic compared to other days. Here’s a screenshot: Apparently, some bot is recording a non-existent page on my site “/trafficbot.live”. Now I’m no stranger to bot attacks. I have a number of tools to deal with these. I was surprised however, that my […]
So you’ve decided to start a new website for your business. You’ve got the perfect name. But you’re wondering – what extension should you use? There are so many! And more are being added all the time. Should you go for something traditional, or make it flashy? Let’s take a look at some of the […]