How to & When to Inline Images using Base64/SVG in WordPress
One of my primary goals in optimizing a website is to improve first contentful paint and first meaningful…
How to Setup External Cron Jobs in WordPress for Performance
What are Cron Jobs? Cron is software in Linux OS to schedule time-based jobs. For example, check for…
How to Serve Images as WebP in WordPress (3 Methods)
If you’ve analyzed your site via Google PageSpeed Insights, you must have probably seen the error “serve images…
5 Reasons on Why I Prefer OpenLiteSpeed over Nginx in WordPress
Few months I started to migrate all my sites to OpenLiteSpeed. Also migrated a few clients to OpenLiteSpeed…
Quicklink vs Instant.page vs Flying Pages – Why I built Flying Pages
Whenever people ask me what’s the secret behind my blog posts loading instantly, I reply to them “Quicklink”.…
How I Benchmark WordPress Hosting Providers
I usually change hosting every 2 months, just to see how everyone performs. Every time I switch to…
14 Tools I Use to Audit Performance of a WordPress site
Performance is not just about “my site loads under x seconds”. There are several other factors you need…
Improving TTFB with TLS 1.3 in WordPress
TTFB (Time to First Byte) is one of the hardest one to optimize in WordPress. Recently I was…
I made a 1 KB alternative to Cookie Notice WordPress Plugin
Recently one of the members in our Facebook Group asked this: So which one is the fastest cookie…
How to Speed Up YouTube/Vimeo Embeds in WordPress
Recently I was working on a site (compare.parts) with a heavy video (hosted on Vimeo) in the above…