Although it is easy to download and install free or “premium” themes, WordPress does come with a default theme that is updated yearly. Last year I did performance tests of Twenty Twelve and there were some performance-issues, which led me to create a cleary faster child theme (2012.FFWD). But how does Twenty Thirteen fare, you … Read more
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Autoptimize is a WordPress plugin that aggregates and minimizes all CSS and JavaScript. It was originally developed by user turl, but was pretty much unmaintained before I took over from him in January 2013. You can find all blogposts about Autoptimize here.
This is why I’m a big fan of good mobile websites; the normal BBC Sport Formula 1 page loads in 6 seconds, where the mobile version loads in a mere 2 seconds (when over cable, DSL and 3G are off course slower). Same content, less clutter and based on progressive enhancement for ultimate responsiveness (from … Read more
Not sure if April Fools or the Easter Bunny are to blame, but Autoptimize 1.6.0 just got pushed out the gates. The main new features: You can now specify which JavaScript should not be Autoptimized. Just add the names (or part of the path) of the scripts in a comma-separated list and that JavaScript-file will … Read more
The latest WP YouTube Lyte version came with support for responsive themes and added microdata for better search-engine discovery of your embedded video’s. But there were also some important improvements from a performance point of view; The title of the video (and the description, length, …) is now requested and cached server-side (the data is … Read more
Yesterday I pushed a beta version of the long overdue 1.2.0 to the SVN trunk at wordpress.org. This is the version at least some of you have been waiting for, as it includes the following new features: LYTE embeds are now fully responsive automatic inclusion of microdata less in JavaScript, more in CSS better performance: … Read more
As I did a year ago for 2011, here I am looking in the mirror at my 2012 numbers and 2013 goals: This blog: 130 blogposts (78 “real” posts and 52 aggregated lifestream-events) 109285 pageviews, the most popular individual article being 5 tips to tackle the problem with iframes (8622 views). Off all new 2012 blogposts, Fix … Read more
Twenty Twelve is beautiful but slow, so I created 2012.FFWD. This Twenty Twelve child theme looks pretty much the same as the original, but comes with the following performance-boosting changes under the hood: no webfont downloaded: loading fonts slow sites down, always. Fallback-fonts as defined in Twenty Twelve (Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif) are used instead. minimized … Read more
Based on last week’s performance analysis of popular sharing-services (AddThis, ShareThis and Lockerz/AddToAny) I decided to continue working on my high-performance & privacy-respecting but rather ad-hoc lyteShare alternative. The result is a 1.6Kb JavaScript file (or the non-minimized version here) that, upon being included in a HTML-file, looks for a div like this one: <div … Read more