On the 6th of November, Automattic released a new version of Jetpack with an exciting new feature – “Site Acceleration”. I generally hold off for a week or so before installing a new plugin update, just to wait for any potential bugs to be worked out. But once I had it installed, I got a […]
Tag: page speed
The RIGHT Way To Load jQuery From A CDN In WordPress
jQuery is a staple feature of almost all websites on the web. If a site has Javascript, it probably has jQuery. Unfortunately, this success has brought some problems with it, as explained below. While there’s no easy solution, one step towards mitigating it is to load jQuery from a CDN. There are lots of tutorials […]
How To Force Cloudflare To Cache Resources
I’ve spent the weekend speeding up my site with Cloudflare. At the end of the day, here are my pagespeed results from Google’s Lighthouse tool: As you can see, I’ve scored in the green for everything, and I already know what I have to do to reach 100%. And all of this was due to […]
How To Improve Your Time To First Byte (TTFB) On WordPress
Last week I was working with one of our customers on ways they could optimize their time to first byte (TTFB). If you’re familiar with many of the webpage speed tests out there, you know this is one of the important benchmarks, as an indication of the responsiveness of a webserver or other network resource. […]
