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Will A Static Website Generator Make My Site Faster?

October 14, 2020

We love hearing from customers who successfully increase their website’s performance. Recently, we noticed one website see such a dramatic improvement that we had to ask for more details. The secret? He switched his site from a PHP site to a static site built with static website generator Jekyll. Jekyll is certainly not the only …

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How Target.com Could Make Their Site 3.1s Faster

September 23, 2020

Target is one of the most well-known retailers around, and they’ve recently increased their focus on the e-commerce portion of their business – Target.com. In fact, they just cracked into the top 10 list of US e-commerce retailers. Unfortunately, Target.com is not a fast website. And this is shocking since we all know that page …

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How to prevent hidden images from loading on responsive designs

September 2, 2020

Responsive design is an absolute necessity in today’s web. More users are visiting websites from their mobile devices than ever before, and if your website doesn’t look good on when viewed from that device, they’ll bounce. Unfortunately, many themes and frameworks achieve responsive design by using hidden images on mobile devices or tablets. Ok, so …

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How to Monitor Your Website Resource Breakdown

August 18, 2020

Monitoring your website resource breakdown is one of the most important things you can do when you own or run a website. Some of our most recent articles detailed how to keep track of the impact that Google Fonts, Page Weight, and CSS files have on your website performance. That’s a lot to keep track …

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Gzip vs Brotli – Best Browser Compression

August 5, 2020

The web today is bigger than ever before, with average desktop page weight up more than 6% in the last year alone. Thankfully, there are simple measures that web developers can take to ensure that the files being served to their visitors are as small as possible. One such measure is HTTP compression. You might …

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How to Optimize CSS for Speed

July 16, 2020

Thanks to CSS, our webpages no longer need to look like they did in the 1990s. It’s an incredibly powerful tool that allows us immense customization, and even the ability to create complex drawings. However, if utilized carelessly, CSS can greatly affect our page speed. When a user requests a website, the browser must process …

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