It’s all about speed! I mean, you want your visitors to stick around, enjoying your content instead of waiting for stuff to download, no? And I bet you would love Google to consider your site quick, now that speed has been confirmed to have an impact on search ranking? “High Performance web sites”-guru Steve Souders […]
So in the ever-continuing saga of learning, testing and fine-tuning your site’s settings to get the ultimate in performance you might have enjoyed the new Autoptimize filter/ setting not to lazyload the first N images to keep the impact of lazyloading on Largest Contentfull Paint down? Well, now you can take things a step further […]
If you tested your blog’s performance on Google PageSpeed Insights yesterday and do so again today, you might be in for a surprise with a lower score even if not one byte (letter) got changed on your site. The reason: Google updated PageSpeed Insights to Lighthouse 6, which changes the KPI’s (the lab data metrics) […]
Fun fact; As per wordpress.org “popular plugins” ranking , Autoptimize is slowly but surely closing in on what used to be the go-to solution for Web Performance Optimization W3 Total Cache based on the “active installs” metric. Who would have thought? What a crazy ride …
Over the past couple of months, since the release of WordPress 5.0 which includes Gutenberg, the new JavaScript-based block editor, I have seen many sites loading a significant amount of extra JavaScript from wp-includes/js/dist on the frontend due to plugins doing it wrong. So dear plugin-developer-friends; when adding Gutenberg blocks please differentiate between editor access […]
WP YouTube Lyte users might have received the following mail from Google/ YouTube: This is to inform you that we noticed your project(s) has not accessed or used the YouTube Data API Service in the past 60 days. Please note, if your project(s) remains inactive for another 30 days from the date of this email […]
So you (vaguely) know about the GDPR I’m sure. German netizens seem ahead of the curve, as I’ve been mainly getting questions about Autoptimize and WP YouTube Lyte from that part of Europe. It even looks like the German implementation of the GDPR is pretty strict, with people removing externally hosted resources (like Google Fonts […]