Web Hosting Tips & Resources From NameHero
Cloudflare is a pretty amazing service, and probably the only on that I know of with a free reverse proxy setup. For most website owners, its value comes from the caching service for static assets by default. I personally also use its DNS servers since I find their response times far faster than those used […]
A WordPress blog can consist of a large variety of topics. Some pages are “information only”, yet others play a key role in the decision process. Not all page layouts are appropriate for all situations. For example, you might want to experiment with a new sidebar for certain pages only. In this tutorial, I’m going […]
Those that have been reading our blog for a while know how important it is to me to provide a high performing, reliable, secure, and scalable cloud infrastructure; that’s why I started NameHero in the first place. In order to accomplish this we have to constantly evolve with the changing online world and adapt our […]
One of the most basic principles of site speed is to reduce the number of domains that your page requests on each load. To this end, I’ve come to the opinion that a CDN like CloudFlare’s reverse proxy is much more efficient than traditional CDN networks since it doesn’t need to resolve an additional domain. […]
After all your page speed optimizations are done, how do you know if they’re having an actual impact on the loading speed? No matter how many speed tests you conduct with the pagespeed tool by Google or on webpagetest.org, there’s no substitute for real-world monitoring. With testing tools, you at best get a simulacrum of […]
Ready to build your new website? Trying to move your website from another web host? Regardless your situation we try to make things as easy as possible for those wanting to get started web hosting with us! In this guide, I’ll walk you through a basic Web Hosting account setup step-by-step so you can spend […]
In our series of articles on how to improve page speed, a constant theme is culling as many external resources as possible. Google fonts, CSS and Javascript. Every additional script or CSS file that loads slows things down. Yes, we can defer the loading, and make sure that the viewer can start interacting with the […]
The time has finally arrived! WordPress 5.0 was officially released on December 6th. This is the largest update to the core WordPress files since they started the project and has many new features most notably the Gutenberg editor. You can read more about the changes in WordPress 5.0 here. With this being a major release, […]
Knowing how to inline and defer CSS on your WordPress site is a vital part of improving the viewer experience. While it doesn’t improve your page load time, it makes a huge difference to how the user perceives the page to load. Normally, all externally linked CSS stylesheets are render-blocking. Which means that the browser […]
Continuing on with our series on how to make your site faster, this article will show you how to load all Javascript in WordPress until after the page has finished parsing. In an earlier tutorial, I’d shown you how to correctly load jQuery from a CDN – usually Google. If you’ve read that, then you […]