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Thursday, November 10, 2022
As of 2021, web page size is the most important factor to measure, as the bigger a page is, the…
Thursday, November 16, 2023
“There’s a plugin for that” is a long-time notion in the global WordPress community. It’s a very positive example of…
Thursday, March 3, 2022
Get current time, formatted This is a super basic function, takes no parameters and returns the current date. Format a…
Friday, January 10, 2020
This update is related more to the account admin than to actual SpeedFactor features. I have implemented PayPal and tweaked…
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
There are two major issues when it comes to DNS lookup times: 1. Number of external requests A complex website…
Thursday, November 16, 2023
It’s been over 2 months since I launched SpeedFactor. And over these months, I have made a lot of progress.…
Thursday, November 16, 2023
What started as a random experiment and an attempt to replicate the Google Lighthouse audit has turned into a complex…
Thursday, November 7, 2019
Here’s the latest updates, changes and additions to SpeedFactor: Security Added server exposure checks for HTTP headers (Powered By and…
Monday, November 4, 2019
I’ll lay out some of the plans for the final version, which is going live on December 1st. SpeedFactor Development…
Thursday, November 16, 2023
SpeedFactor is finally public! While still in Beta, the service works as expected. It has a free forever plan, and…
Sunday, November 3, 2019
Three days after the planned launch and countless bugs fixed and new features added, I give you the official SpeedFactor…
Wednesday, February 3, 2021
Users don’t read (more than 18%) About 11 years ago, Jakob Nielsen wrote an “Alertbox” titled How little do users read?.…