Performance
A political news site that gets attacked regularly found us in February 2021. Their team of 20+ writers produces numerous articles every day. After a round of WordPress maintenance like updating themes, plugins and WordPress core, all of a sudden no writers could log in!. They could no longer update WordPress core, plugins or themes. … Learn more…
Core web vital optimizations for WordPress and WooCommerce are in bloom to prepare for the May 2021 Google algorithm update. This Google PageSpeed performance optimization case study is for a review website that monetizes with affiliate partnerships and advertisements. This reviews site does in-depth comparisons of popular services and products to help you find out … Learn more…
In this first WordPress database optimization case study, average response time improves by 50% after the slow MySQL queries go from 1 minute down to 20ms. 2020 has been crazy. To deal with the insanity, many people are trying to spend their time wisely. No, I don’t mean Instagram scrolling or dicking around on Facebook. … Learn more…
A slow wp-admin area in WooCommerce is a very common performance issue. The speed of your WordPress dashboard directly affects productivity and overall happiness when doing your daily admin tasks. You don’t have to live with a wp-admin dashboard (“backoffice” in some countries) taking 30+ seconds to load. Learn how we fixed the excruciatingly slow … Learn more…
WooCommerce slow store case study time for B2B (business to business sales)! This WordPress site sells beautiful light fixtures aimed for other businesses. Nosa manages this multisite WooCommerce store running 68 plugins! They wanted to add some cool new feature that allows visitors to generate detailed technical specifications in PDF form for a group of … Learn more…
This Google PageSpeed performance optimization case study is for a lifestyle news site that gets over 2 million visitors every month. There is a reason major news sites opted to run WordPress like Forbes, The New York Times , Reuters and CNN. WordPress is so popular for news sites because it can scale very well … Learn more…
Time for a WooCommerce slow store case study! This WordPress site under the microscope helps parents homeschool their children with useful educational materials like worksheets. As you can imagine, during the 2020 pandemic homeschooling became pretty popular and still is. Deb has run her homeschooling help site for years. Now it was getting more attention … Learn more…
Do you have questions about our Google PageSpeed Optimization process especially for WordPress and WooCommerce since the Google announcement about Core Web Vitals? We made this post to explain how our process works if you choose to collaborate with us to improve your Google PageSpeed scores and hopefully get your SEO rankings up, conversions improved … Learn more…
Is it possible to have 90+ Google PageSpeed Insights scores if you use ads? Can you do anything to improve your scores with ads? Luckily yes but there are some caveats. Monetizing your site with Google AdSense and other ad networks does have a performance cost. When we optimize ad loading we use an approach … Learn more…
These no longer exist for WordPress – at least not in Google PageSpeed scores for the majority of sites. Especially not for mobile scores. Before the 2020 PageSpeed core web vitals update, there were some low-hanging fruit optimizations we could do to improve the scores. This is no longer possible for most sites because of … Learn more…