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Using Resource Hints to Optimize WordPress Performance
Resource hints provide a way to optimize the performance of your web page on the client side. As the name suggests, they provide the [...]
SpeedFactor Update: Less is More
The past few weeks have brought some long awaited updates to SpeedFactor. As I am focusing on tracking speed, some of the tools provided [...]
17 Best Website Speed And Performance Testing Tools
50% of people expect a site to load in less than 2 seconds! Your site’s load time could be the difference between keeping visitors on [...]
Big changes are coming to SpeedFactor: Less Lighthouse, more Performance API, new PRO plans, better free audits
It’s been pretty quiet on the update front for SpeedFactor in the past months. Mostly bug fixes and performance updates. That’s [...]
We’re Retiring the Site Uptime Check
Retiring this tool allows us to take on new product discovery work to understand how we can reveal even more powerful insights about your [...]
Drift Chat: Speed Up Your Page Loading Speed by 3-4 Seconds
Here’s a neat trick to speed up your initial page loading time when you are using Drift. If you use SpeedFactor or GTMetrix to [...]
Keep your sites flying with SpeedFactor performance insights
Your hosting platform makes your site fly! But even with an amazing host, front-end details, images, scripts, can often slow your site [...]
SpeedFactor Roadmap
During the initial development of SpeedFactor, there were lots of features to consider and there was no proper roadmap as everything was [...]
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 many already. Considering the need [...]
Why Is Web Page Size Important?
As of 2021, web page size is the most important factor to measure as the bigger a page is, the longer it takes to display and the faster it [...]
Plugins Slow Down Your WordPress Site
“There’s a plugin for that” is a long-time notion in the global WordPress community. It’s a very positive example of the [...]
SpeedFactor Summary: January 10, 2020
This update is related more to the account admin than to actual SpeedFactor features. I have implemented PayPal and tweaked the [...]