#site speed

Inspired by Gijo’s Varghese post I devoted last weekend to replace jQuery with vanilla JavaScript in my own plugin, SpeedGuard. And I’m very happy I did. Share this post to inspire other developers to do so too!

SSL negotiation was slow, I tried Cloudflare SSL

It’s been a long time coming. I don’t need any specific level of security here on this blog, but I want it to be fast. I tried quite a few SSL certificates over the years, here and for clients’ sites, including ZeroSSL, RapidSSL, Comodo, Symantec, Let’s Encrypt of course, and some others which names I…

How to speed up WordPress site: 5 popular recommendations that don’t work [WordFest 2021]

If you ever googled anything related to “how to speed up a website” you probably noticed that there are few recommendations that are repeated almost in every article over and over again.

̶G̶o̶o̶g̶l̶e̶ ̶P̶a̶g̶e̶S̶p̶e̶e̶d̶ ̶I̶n̶s̶i̶g̶h̶t̶s̶ За сколько грузится ваш сайт на самом деле? [WPKYIV, Полтава 2020]

После этого доклада вы сможете измерить, как быстро загружается ваш сайт. И это может оказаться совсем не так, как вы думали.

5 Steps To A Faster Website [WordCamp Long Beach 2019]

Why should you forget about the scores if you want to speed up your website? Why would using CDN might not help you improve your site speed? How do you get to know your hosting is fast enough?

How to measure, improve and maintain your WordPress website performance [WordCamp Brighton 2019]

You’ve already heard that slow website keeps you from good conversation numbers and high Google ranking. But how do you know if your website is that slow? By attending to this talk, you’ll learn: How to measure performance of your site properly Why fast DNS service is important What you should be aware of when…

5 steps to a faster website [WordPress Kharkiv Meetup 2019]

Why you should forget about the scores if you want to speed up your website? What is TTFB and why you should care about it? Why using CDN might not help you improve the site speed?

5 steps to a faster website [WordCamp London 2019]

Why you should forget about the scores if you want to speed up your website? What is TTFB and why you should care about it? Why using CDN might not help you improve the site speed?

Force CSS and JS refresh in WordPress during development

CSS, JavaScript, site speed

So, you are developing theme or customizing plugin and have made some changes to your custom stylesheet. You refresh your page and… nothing happens. You clear browser cache but stylesheet still not updating.

Bulk resize images in WordPress automatically and fast

site speed, spring-cleaning

You may need to bulk resize images because you decided to serve scaled images and speed up your site at last. Or your theme layout has been changed and you need images resized accordingly.

Serve scaled images in WordPress to speed up your site

This post will help you to fix this issue for: existing imagesfor images that will be uploaded later onboth for mobile and for desktop for different pages on your website, not only for that one that you’ve tested in GTmetrix First, what does it mean?

Delete unused images in WordPress: attachments, media, unattached images, 404, orphaned

!! Before anything: make sure you made a backup! Remove unused images attachments (orphaned images that are not attached to any WordPress post, page or custom post) When you delete your posts, attachments from them don’t get deleted automatically.

How to add Adsense to WordPress website without slowing it down?

Just one Adsense block can significantly slow down your website if added incorrectly. When you’ve got a few blocks on the page the impact multiplies. From today you will have no excuses to let Adsense harm your website performance anymore.

How to lazy load YouTube video embeds in WordPress when nothing works

JavaScript, site speed

What happens when you embed a Youtube video on your site? An empty page with NO video: I created a new post on this website without any content (so header, footer, sidebar, all scripts, comment form etc are loaded, but post content in empty).

How fast should a website load in 2021 [you might be overthinking it]

You have definitely noticed that today every webmaster, every site owner, and every SEO specialist is worried about website speed. Just go open any major publication such as Search Engine Land or Mashable and you will easily find a post about site speed, how important it is, how to make your website load faster, and…

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I have been building networks of websites with WordPress Multisite since 2011, and improving WordPress performance since 2018. But believe me or not I had almost no experience of using WordPress as a visual editor, actually.

WordPress missed schedule fix in case WordPress CRON not working

cron, site speed

How to check if wp-cron is working?First, let’s make sure that wp cron is actually working on your website and if not repair it. We’ll create a new post and set it publish date in future (few minutes from now)If WP CRON works as expected the post you’ve scheduled will be published in a few…

WordPress the_content filter for thinking developers

WordPress filters are so damn convenient and make devs’ life so much easier that rather often you can see developers forgetting to turn the thinking mode on before use it. I would lie if I tell personally I had never done this mistake before and that’s another reason for this post.

Remove image links from WordPress content: 3 ways

By default when you add an image to your post content it’s got framed with <a> tags and linked to the original image. In most* cases you would like to remove image links as they might harm you SEO by: influence the bounce rate as user behavior gets worse.

Bulk delete anything in WordPress: posts, comments, tags, revisions, and many more

site speed, spring-cleaning

Before you start: Be careful and make a database backup before you start.All these functions can be fired by any hook, obviously. If you leave wp_head that I used in examples it’s fine.

Delete all comments in WordPress (as well as posts, custom posts and revisions)

site speed, spring-cleaning

These snippets will bulk delete all posts/custom posts/comments/revisions from WordPress blog totally, removing them from database. Proceed with caution. Delete all posts: https://gist.github.com/sabrina-zeidan/449c10b84b2fde7a0d0d08cd5592d297 Delete all custom posts: https://gist.github.com/sabrina-zeidan/e7cae401a1cd88d902f28d28431fbd92 *mind to change “book” to the custom post type name you want to bulk delete Delete all post revisions: https://gist.

Internal linking best practices for SEO: 8 tips and live example

No need to explain why internal linking is one the essential part of website SEO, so let’s go straight to the matter. Internal linking best practices: clear website structure and navigation don’t put that block of links to the footer.

SEO results make you cry? Read this immediately!

Caution: Strategic thinking needed. You’ve been warned. You are doing this and that, adding content to your website, filling alt and titles for images, working on proper inner link building and even improving server response time on your server.

Best website structure for SEO: tips, tools, and examples

When you just plan your future website you start with structuring data and it’s obvious. But if you try to improve the existing project it’s a common mistake to go through checklists and 10 rules and so on instead of starting from the very beginning.

12 free keyword research tools tested. Should you pay for keywords at all?

There are plenty services ready to collect keywords for you for 40$-200$. None of them ideal, though personally I prefer moz.com the best. Let’s see if we can do the same without any paid services and they really get money for nothing and chicks for free 😉 Step 1.

How to target long tail keywords and why you would like do that?