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Jetpack Boost Review: How does it compare to others
Jetpack Boost is Automattic’s plugin to improve Wordpress performance. It optimizes the performance by addressing one of the main speed issues of Wordpress sites, which is loading unused CSS. Jetpack can be a complement to websites that use the hosting proprietary speed optimization plugins or compatible performance plugins with no overlapping features. It’s currently the…
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Fastest Shopify themes & best user-experience
Core Web Vitals is here, and it not only gives a website better results in SEO but has also been proven to help increase conversation rates. Choosing a theme with the best Core Web Vitals metrics could give you a large advantage, whether your store sells clothes, books, or anything else. Check the fastest Shopify themes…
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Does Elementor slow down your site & How to improve speed
Elementor is currently one of the preferred choices for building websites without writing code. But what is the real cost of building upon Elementor when weighing speed, and performance? Elementor recently added features to improve speed, but as the Core Web Vitals update takes place, a new challenge appears. Can a website have green metrics…
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Shopify Speed Optimization App & services: Do they work?
Shopify Speed Optimization apps/services label themselves as speed boosters, but are they improving your website speed? The Shopify app store has many apps that claim to improve your page speed, even with just one click away. Can your website be improved with just one click, or simply a few buttons? Shopify Speed Optimization App Tests…
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Lighthouse Performance Audits: Is score important?
The Lighthouse Performance Audits score evolves constantly as developers adjust the metrics. In the last version 10 update it had a major change, which removed TTI and gave CLS(cumulative layout shift) a larger score, now representing 25% of the total. The audits also used only to be able to measure the cold page-load, making it…
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What is Core Web Vitals Assessment Failed on Pagespeed
Pagespeed marks your site with “Core web vitals assessment failed” when you fail to hit the “Good” threshold for any current metrics, LCP, CLS, or FID(INP in the future). The metrics data come from Chrome browser users and are based on a 28-day collection period window. There’s confusion around this information, as many websites have…
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What’s INP and 3 ways to improve it on Wordpress
INP is set to become a Core Web Vitals metric in March 2024. The metric factors the user experience throughout the page lifecycle, as Google says. It replaces FID. INP measures the time of each click, tap, or keypress on the page until the next update to the screen. Most of the work on INP…
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Why should you use Cloudflare APO
For $5/month, Cloudflare APO can improve your TTFB and FCP by caching the HTML. TTFB and FCP are the foundation of Core Web Vitals LCP. Cloudflare APO also offers other benefits such as Automatic Signed Exchanges (SXGs) on the Optimization tab, which further improves loading metrics before the user even loads the page. Why should…
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How to do a full Wordpress website audit
Are you familiar with Lighthouse? It’s the package that runs on Google Pagespeed. Google recently also added all remaining categories other than PWA audit to the site. What if you could run multiple Lighthouse tests like Pagespeed and do a full audit on your Wordpress website? This is what Unlighthouse does. It is fully configurable…
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Wp Rocket vs Autoptimize: Who does have better features
Wp Rocket might be worth the price for you if you’re improving Core Web Vitals, especially LCP, as Autoptimize charges for the Critical CSS feature($5/mo). WP Rocket has quite a lot more features than Autoptimize Pro, including Remove Unused CSS and New Delay Unused Javascript. The new Delay JS feature makes it easier for non-developers…