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Is Google Fonts Slowing Your Site? Make Google Fonts Faster

July 2, 2020

Using Google Fonts is often one of the first steps people take to give their website a unique look. After all, they’ve been viewed more than 40 trillion times as of this writing. But if you’ve ever brought over that amazing font and ran a speed test, you might be asking – “Does Google Fonts …

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Does SSL Slow Down My Site?

June 17, 2020

For too long, many bloggers and site owners who weren’t handling credit card transactions on their sites resisted adding an SSL certificate to their sites. Among the reasons for this was the common myth that using SSL may slow down your website. Many were hesitant to sacrifice site speed for the added layer of security …

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Mobile Page Speed Testing

June 2, 2020

Do you know how fast your site loads on a mobile device? Mobile use surpassed desktop use years ago, but all too often websites are still being built desktop first and mobile second. In fact, failing to run a mobile page speed test is the number 1 speed testing mistake we see our users make! …

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Page Weight Test – Measure The Size Of Your Website

May 15, 2020

When we gave a complete overview of the state of the web in 2020 we challenged our readers to compare their own website metrics to the multiple metric averages. How did you end up doing on your page weight (the download size of your entire webpage)? Check out that challenge again below, and read on …

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How To Speed Test Your Site From All Over The World

May 4, 2020

Our most recent article identified (and remedied) the 4 most common page speed testing mistakes we see website owners making, and it inspired us to do even more to help those who make mistake #2: Only testing from 1 location. In addition to recently adding 2 new server locations, we wanted to remind you of …

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4 Most Common Page Speed Testing Mistakes

April 21, 2020

Using a page speed optimization audit tool like GTmetrix or WebPageTest is a great first step towards assessing how your website loads for visitors. However, you may be making one of the common page speed testing mistakes that often cost website owners engagement, and ultimately, revenue. In fact, we often get emails from frustrated website …

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