According to Google, a website can lose as many as half its visitors while loading. This means you want to keep load times short and sweet to maximize user experience. However, your MachMetrics reports are showing that your page load times are much too slow. That’s valuable information, but what’s the next step? Now that …
If you run a private WebPageTest instance on Amazon EC2, one of the choices you’ll have to make is whether to use Linux or Windows test agents. I had always been an advocate for the Windows AMIs – as most of the world runs Windows instead of Linux, I wanted the performance to represent what …
Can you imagine if you doubled your weight from 180 lbs to 360lbs in 3 years? You’d be a little embarrassed, right? Yet this is what has happened to web pages, and no one seems to be taking much action. Web pages have become massive since their minuscule proportions in the early 2000s. But what’s shocking …
WordPress website speed depends on many factors. Everything from your posts and numbers of files to your overall theme choice can affect your site speed. Overall, speed is about efficiency and focus. When your website is running slow – even by seconds – it potentially loses visitors and cuts into your bottom line. However, you …
There are lots of ways to improve your site’s performance. Serving your static assets from a CDN, using GZip or Brotli compression, and concatenating your CSS/JS files should be on the top of your list. One thing that may not be on your radar is lazy loading your images. UPDATE – We’ve posted a follow-up …
If you’re a user of any synthetic speed testing service, you’ll likely have many browsers visiting your site every day – testing your site speed from various locations, devices, etc. That’s not a big deal if it’s just a few daily tests, but if you’re a power user then your visitor analytics, such as in …