Google loves to de-emphasize links. A quick rundown of John Mueller’s Twitter feed routinely reveals “advice” like this: Google doesn’t care about links Don’t try and create links Link building is a waste of time Content is the only thing that matters etc… Methinks Google doth protest too much. On the one hand, if Google […]
Inlined CSS – When To Use vs Stylesheets
With WordPress taking the high road and deciding to favor inlined CSS vs large stylesheets to only load CSS that’s on the page, I feel it’s time to examine our own bloated stylesheets and do what we can to reduce the number of unused CSS rules on our page. While WordPress’s latest changes will take […]
WordPress New Update Makes It Faster!
Just last month I was complaining about how WordPress needs to do more on Core Web Vitals. While the Automattic team has included several changes to speed up WordPress over the years, it’s obvious that it was never an overriding concern. Otherwise, they would never have decided to include a huge CSS styles file for […]
JSON Structured Data Template for Reviews
Google keeps changing its recommendations for the right way to incorporate product reviews in your structured data. For example a couple of years back, I’d written about some changes in Google’s specifications and how to deal with them. But since then, standards have changed again, and it’s time to provide a new JSON template for […]
QUIC.cloud With NameHero: 500% TTFB Reduction!
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 […]
Preventing Malware With WordPress Plugin Updates
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 […]
How To Add A Subdomain In Cloudflare
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 […]
WordPress Should Do More For Core Web Vitals
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 […]
Is it Time to Disable Your RSS Feeds?
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/ […]
Cloudflare vs QUIC.cloud – What’s The Difference?
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 […]