After years of writing quality content your wordpress website might eventually reach the point where it begins to rank in search engines for popular keywords and phrases. No matter how well optimized your website is, substantial traffic increases will cause you to max out the limited resources on your shared hosting plan. This was exactly…
Breadcrumb trails are digital footprints showing a users location within website hierarchy. A series of crumbs serve as a secondary navigational tool to help users understand your site architecture. They show users how to get from the current page back to home. The term breadcrumb or breadcrumb trail originated from a fairy tale called Hansel…
PHP memory limits prevent poorly written scripts from using all of the memory resources on the server. To avoid PHP memory limit errors all WordPress sites should set memory limit values to 256MB via the wp-config.php, .htaccess or php.ini files. Adjusting this value will satisfy the memory requirements of popular plugins like WooCommerce, WPML, Multisite…
WP Rocket is a premium WordPress caching plugin. It improves site speed through CSS, JS, HTML, image and font file optimizations with CDN integration. WP Rocket is the most user friendly caching plugin available on WordPress. It’s ready to go out of the box with easy configuration and guaranteed to improve scores and load times…
A content delivery network (CDN) is a system of connected servers strategically located across the world serving cached content to users based on geographic proximity. Instead of your website content being delivered by one server provided by your hosting company, it is copied on servers across the world and delivered based on physical distance to…
The length of time a browser has to wait before receiving its first byte of data from your server is known as Time to First Byte (TTFB). If you are starting the process of website speed optimization you will surely come across this performance metric although it can also referred to as “Server Response Time”…
Creating a Table of Contents (TOC) using HTML/CSS instead of plugins will help improve site speed, enrich user experience and possibly help you earn search snippets. All posts and pages with long form content and several headings should be organized with a (TOC) Table of Contents. Creating a list of headings, sections and topics allows…
Hosting Google Fonts locally on your own server will reduce total site size, DNS requests and improve load times. Nothing slows down a WordPress website like too many external HTTP requests. Chances are your WordPress theme has built in Google Font requests that come pre-loaded by the developer. Under the right conditions hosting Google Fonts…