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Monday, June 24, 2024

An Extreme Approach to Speeding Up WordPress

This tutorial applies to a specific use case: WordPress as a minimal CMS, highly optimized for SEO.

Friday, July 14, 2023

How to Generate Quality Leads From Facebook

This is a guest post from 4Property, a leading provider of technology and market intelligence services for estate agents and…

Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Google Pagespeed Insights vs GTmetrix vs SpeedFactor: Which One Is Better?

Google Pagespeed Insights, GTmetrix and SpeedFactor are all great tools to help identify speed related issues and fix them. All…

Tuesday, October 20, 2020

SpeedFactor Development Update

It’s been a while since I have written the last development update for SpeedFactor and detailed my ongoing journey. It’s…

Friday, June 24, 2022

How to Optimize WordPress’ Native Settings for Performance

WordPress comes with default settings and options, suitable for blogging. Part of the “Decisions, not options” philosophy, they might not…

Thursday, July 7, 2022

How To Update Your WordPress Plugin From GitHub in 2020

I have coded three of these before, but I have finally coded and optimized the perfect one. A GitHub plugin…

Thursday, July 7, 2022

How to Upgrade Your GitHub API Authentication

If you’ve been getting lots of email notices when using GitHub API calls related to: Deprecation notice for authentication via…

Tuesday, November 7, 2023

Work-From-Home Office Setup Inspiration for Coders & Developers

Minimalistic or grandiose? Or cluttered? What’s your preference when working from home? As most of us have been forced to…

Thursday, June 23, 2022

How to Work Remotely: Practical Tips

😎 These tips are obviously biased and focused on developers. Home Office Designate a room as your office. This helps…

Friday, May 3, 2024

How Not to Get Affected by Google Algorithm Updates

It’s common sense. I’ve heard a lot of complaining from SEOs who have sites that have plummeted over the past…

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

The Journey Continues

Note: SpeedFactor has been merged into WordPress Lighthouse. I’m proud to say that in the past year I’ve merged lots…

Tuesday, October 20, 2020

How Many Assets Should a Website Have?

How Many JavaScript Files Should a Website Have? A maximum of four. And I would still argue that is too…