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SiteGround – went downhill in 2020 with increased complaints about slower TTFBs, CPU limits, reduced support, price increases, high renewals, and Site Tools. Not nearly as fast as they used to be since migrating to Google Cloud. There is a large trend in Facebook Groups of people moving away from SiteGround since the value of their WordPress hosting is no longer worth it. 12 WAYS TO REDUCE TOTAL BLOCKING TIME IN WORDPRESSHOW DO I REDUCE TOTAL BLOCKING TIME IN WORDPRESS?THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY TO REDUCE TOTAL BLOCKING TIME IN WORDPRESS IS TO OPTIMIZE JAVASCRIPT FILES (INCLUDING THIRD-PARTY CODE). DEFER, DELAY, MINIF...HOW DO I REDUCE TOTAL BLOCKING TIME USING WP ROCKET?TO REDUCE BLOCKING TIME USING WP ROCKET, DELAY NON-CRITICAL JAVASCRIPT, LOAD JAVASCRIPT DEFERRED, AND MAKE SURE OPTIMIZED CSS DELIVERY IS WORKING P...HOW DO I REDUCE TOTAL BLOCKING TIME ON MOBILE?CHECK FILES WITH LONG MAIN-THREAD BLOCKING TIMES IN YOUR MOBILE SPEED REPORT AND OPTIMIZE THOSE SPECIFICALLY. AVOID HAMBURGER MENUS AND COMPLEX DES...HOW CAN I IMPROVE TOTAL BLOCKING TIME IN ELEMENTOR?ELEMENTOR ADDS A LOT OF CSS AND JAVASCRIPT WHICH CAN INCREASE TOTAL BLOCK TIMES. TRY DISABLING ELEMENTOR ASSETS USING AN ASSET UNLOADING PLUGIN. AV... 1. Find Elements Causing High Blocking Time. GTmetrix Waterfall – brown bars represent blocking time. Chrome Dev Tools – the Performance tab in Chrome Dev Tools shows total blocking time. Third-Party Code – blocking time of third-party code can be directly measured in PageSpeed Insights. Often, this is from Google Fonts, Analytics, Tag Manager, advertisements, and videos. HOW TO SPEED UP WORDPRESS ON MOBILE (99% PSI SCORES) 1. Test Your Mobile Speed. Think With Google is the best way to test mobile speed since it uses a 4G connection.. PageSpeed Insights gives you similar recommendations but it uses a 3G connection for the mobile test. This means your WordPress site will almost always load faster on HOW TO REMOVE UNUSED CSS IN WORDPRESS (PSI ITEM) 1. Remove Unused CSS In Asset CleanUp Or Perfmatters. Asset CleanUp and Perfmatters are popular plugins for removing CSS in WordPress.. Choose A Plugin To Remove Unused CSS. Asset CleanUp is free while Perfmatters is paid, but the UI/UX is better. 73 WORDPRESS PLUGINS THAT SLOW DOWN WEBSITES FROM HIGH CPU List of slow WordPress plugins *Most slow WordPress plugins include page builders (including Elementor), social sharing, statistic, slider, portfolio, calendar, chat, contact form, related post, sitemap, Jetpack, WPML, WooCommerce, and any plugin that runs ongoingscans or processes.
17 WAYS TO SPEED UP A SLOW WOOCOMMERCE SITE (2021 GUIDE) Not saying hosting is everything, but it’s the #1 speed factor.. This is a simple Pingdom test to measure TTFB + load times of 16 WordPress hosts. I installed the same Astra Starter Site on 16 hosting accounts while measuring their load times for 1 week at 30 minute check intervals, as well as TTFB in various tools.No caching or CDN (with same plugins) were used since I’m strictly HOW TO REDUCE CUMULATIVE LAYOUT SHIFT TO "0" IN WORDPRESS 1. Learn Which Elements Are Shifting. PageSpeed Insights – the “avoid large layout shift” report in your Diagnostics section shows you which individual elements have the highest CLS contribution, as well as a picture of them.. Cumulative Layout Shift Debugger – built by a Chrome engineer which uses the Layout Instability API in Chromium to detect & measure layout shifts. 14 WAYS TO FIX A SLOW WORDPRESS ADMIN PANEL (DASHBOARD) Not saying hosting is everything, but it’s the #1 speed factor.. This is a simple Pingdom test to measure TTFB + load times of 16 WordPress hosts. I installed the same Astra Starter Site on 16 hosting accounts while measuring their load times for 1 week at 30 minute check intervals, as well as TTFB in various tools.No caching or CDN (with same plugins) were used since I’m strictly SITEGROUND HAS A SLOW TTFB (IT'S NOT YOUR IMAGINATION) It’s not your imagination. SiteGround has slow TTFBs. On one hand, they migrated to Google Cloud servers, upgraded their SG Optimizer plugin, and released Ultrafast PHP on their GoGeek plan which they say can improve TTFBs by up to 50%.. On the other hand, Backlinko’s Page Speed study found SiteGround had some of the worst TTFBs.This alligned with my own test when comparing TTFBs of 16 HOW TO REMOVE UNUSED JAVASCRIPT IN WORDPRESS (EASY WAY) 3. Use A Lightweight Page Builder (Or None) If you have still have JavaScript errors in WordPress, it’s probably from page builders. Elementor and Divi (specifically) add lots of extra JavaScript to your site. Combine this with Ultimate Add-Ons and other page builders plugins, and your site can quickly become bloated. HOW TO SPEED UP SLOW DIVI WEBSITES (ADVANCED GUIDE)WHY IS DIVI SLOW?DIVI IS SLOW BECAUSE IT ADDS EXTRA CSS AND JAVASCRIPT TO YOUR SITE WHICH CAN FLAG MULTIPLE ISSUES IN LIGHTHOUSE AND OTHER TESTING TOOLS. DIVI'S REC...WHY IS THE DIVI BACKEND SLOW?DIVI'S BACKEND CAN BE SLOW WHEN RUNNING CHEAP, SHARED HOSTING WHICH HAS LIMITED RESOURCES AND CPU LIMITS. IT CAN ALSO BE FROM RESOURCE-HUNGRY PLUGI...WHY IS DIVI'S VISUAL EDITOR SLOW?DIVI'S VISUAL EDITOR LOADS MORE RESOURCES THAN THE CLASSIC EDITOR OR GUTENBERG AND THEREFORE, CAN BE SLOWER TO LOAD. THEY HAVE BEEN WORKING ON PERF...WHY IS DIVI SLOW ON MOBILE?TRY USING MOBILE CACHING, ADAPTIVE IMAGES, AND SIMPLISTIC, RESPONSIVE DESIGN FOR YOUR MOBILE SITE. PAGESPEED INSIGHTS ALSO USES A 3GCONNECTION TO...
SiteGround – went downhill in 2020 with increased complaints about slower TTFBs, CPU limits, reduced support, price increases, high renewals, and Site Tools. Not nearly as fast as they used to be since migrating to Google Cloud. There is a large trend in Facebook Groups of people moving away from SiteGround since the value of their WordPress hosting is no longer worth it. 12 WAYS TO REDUCE TOTAL BLOCKING TIME IN WORDPRESSHOW DO I REDUCE TOTAL BLOCKING TIME IN WORDPRESS?THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY TO REDUCE TOTAL BLOCKING TIME IN WORDPRESS IS TO OPTIMIZE JAVASCRIPT FILES (INCLUDING THIRD-PARTY CODE). DEFER, DELAY, MINIF...HOW DO I REDUCE TOTAL BLOCKING TIME USING WP ROCKET?TO REDUCE BLOCKING TIME USING WP ROCKET, DELAY NON-CRITICAL JAVASCRIPT, LOAD JAVASCRIPT DEFERRED, AND MAKE SURE OPTIMIZED CSS DELIVERY IS WORKING P...HOW DO I REDUCE TOTAL BLOCKING TIME ON MOBILE?CHECK FILES WITH LONG MAIN-THREAD BLOCKING TIMES IN YOUR MOBILE SPEED REPORT AND OPTIMIZE THOSE SPECIFICALLY. AVOID HAMBURGER MENUS AND COMPLEX DES...HOW CAN I IMPROVE TOTAL BLOCKING TIME IN ELEMENTOR?ELEMENTOR ADDS A LOT OF CSS AND JAVASCRIPT WHICH CAN INCREASE TOTAL BLOCK TIMES. TRY DISABLING ELEMENTOR ASSETS USING AN ASSET UNLOADING PLUGIN. AV... 1. Find Elements Causing High Blocking Time. GTmetrix Waterfall – brown bars represent blocking time. Chrome Dev Tools – the Performance tab in Chrome Dev Tools shows total blocking time. Third-Party Code – blocking time of third-party code can be directly measured in PageSpeed Insights. Often, this is from Google Fonts, Analytics, Tag Manager, advertisements, and videos. HOW TO SPEED UP WORDPRESS ON MOBILE (99% PSI SCORES) 1. Test Your Mobile Speed. Think With Google is the best way to test mobile speed since it uses a 4G connection.. PageSpeed Insights gives you similar recommendations but it uses a 3G connection for the mobile test. This means your WordPress site will almost always load faster on HOW TO REMOVE UNUSED CSS IN WORDPRESS (PSI ITEM) 1. Remove Unused CSS In Asset CleanUp Or Perfmatters. Asset CleanUp and Perfmatters are popular plugins for removing CSS in WordPress.. Choose A Plugin To Remove Unused CSS. Asset CleanUp is free while Perfmatters is paid, but the UI/UX is better. 73 WORDPRESS PLUGINS THAT SLOW DOWN WEBSITES FROM HIGH CPU List of slow WordPress plugins *Most slow WordPress plugins include page builders (including Elementor), social sharing, statistic, slider, portfolio, calendar, chat, contact form, related post, sitemap, Jetpack, WPML, WooCommerce, and any plugin that runs ongoingscans or processes.
17 WAYS TO SPEED UP A SLOW WOOCOMMERCE SITE (2021 GUIDE) Not saying hosting is everything, but it’s the #1 speed factor.. This is a simple Pingdom test to measure TTFB + load times of 16 WordPress hosts. I installed the same Astra Starter Site on 16 hosting accounts while measuring their load times for 1 week at 30 minute check intervals, as well as TTFB in various tools.No caching or CDN (with same plugins) were used since I’m strictly HOW TO REDUCE CUMULATIVE LAYOUT SHIFT TO "0" IN WORDPRESS 1. Learn Which Elements Are Shifting. PageSpeed Insights – the “avoid large layout shift” report in your Diagnostics section shows you which individual elements have the highest CLS contribution, as well as a picture of them.. Cumulative Layout Shift Debugger – built by a Chrome engineer which uses the Layout Instability API in Chromium to detect & measure layout shifts. 14 WAYS TO FIX A SLOW WORDPRESS ADMIN PANEL (DASHBOARD) Not saying hosting is everything, but it’s the #1 speed factor.. This is a simple Pingdom test to measure TTFB + load times of 16 WordPress hosts. I installed the same Astra Starter Site on 16 hosting accounts while measuring their load times for 1 week at 30 minute check intervals, as well as TTFB in various tools.No caching or CDN (with same plugins) were used since I’m strictly SITEGROUND HAS A SLOW TTFB (IT'S NOT YOUR IMAGINATION) It’s not your imagination. SiteGround has slow TTFBs. On one hand, they migrated to Google Cloud servers, upgraded their SG Optimizer plugin, and released Ultrafast PHP on their GoGeek plan which they say can improve TTFBs by up to 50%.. On the other hand, Backlinko’s Page Speed study found SiteGround had some of the worst TTFBs.This alligned with my own test when comparing TTFBs of 16 HOW TO REMOVE UNUSED JAVASCRIPT IN WORDPRESS (EASY WAY) 3. Use A Lightweight Page Builder (Or None) If you have still have JavaScript errors in WordPress, it’s probably from page builders. Elementor and Divi (specifically) add lots of extra JavaScript to your site. Combine this with Ultimate Add-Ons and other page builders plugins, and your site can quickly become bloated. 73 WORDPRESS PLUGINS THAT SLOW DOWN WEBSITES FROM HIGH CPU List of slow WordPress plugins *Most slow WordPress plugins include page builders (including Elementor), social sharing, statistic, slider, portfolio, calendar, chat, contact form, related post, sitemap, Jetpack, WPML, WooCommerce, and any plugin that runs ongoingscans or processes.
SERVE IMAGES IN NEXT-GEN FORMATS IN WORDPRESS (WEBP) When running your site through PageSpeed Insights, you may see a recommendation to serve images in next-gen formats.. Google recommends converting JPEG and PNG images to WebP. This is a next-gen image format that is supposed to be faster and higher quality. SITEGROUND HAS A SLOW TTFB (IT'S NOT YOUR IMAGINATION) It’s not your imagination. SiteGround has slow TTFBs. On one hand, they migrated to Google Cloud servers, upgraded their SG Optimizer plugin, and released Ultrafast PHP on their GoGeek plan which they say can improve TTFBs by up to 50%.. On the other hand, Backlinko’s Page Speed study found SiteGround had some of the worst TTFBs.This alligned with my own test when comparing TTFBs of 16 8 WAYS TO ELIMINATE RENDER-BLOCKING RESOURCES IN WORDPRESS In Autoptimize, optimize and aggregate CSS and JavaScript files: In Async JavaScript, click “apply defer” in the Quick Settings. If you’re using SG Optimizer or another cache plugin, they may also have an option to defer render-blocking JavaScript. 3. Inline Critical CSS. Many cache plugins have an option to optimize CSS delivery. 15 WAYS TO MINIMIZE MAIN-THREAD WORK IN WORDPRESS Take Advantage Of Lazy Load. Reduce Page Size. Reduce Memory Usage. Reconsider Animations. Consider Using Web Workers. Take Advantage Of Different Caching Types. 1. Find Long Main-Thread Tasks. To find out the source of long main-thread tasks, there are a few reports you should be looking at in PageSpeed Insights. HOW TO SPEED UP A SLOW ELEMENTOR WEBSITE (ADVANCED GUIDE) Optimize DOM Output. This improves avoid excessive DOM size in PSI. Enable it under Elementor → Settings → Experiments → Optimized DOM Output. This removes unnecessary div wrappers (elementor-inner, elementor-row, and elementor-column-wrap) in your code. Check your Elementor website for visible errors after enabling this. 3. 14 WAYS TO FIX A SLOW WORDPRESS ADMIN PANEL (DASHBOARD) Not saying hosting is everything, but it’s the #1 speed factor.. This is a simple Pingdom test to measure TTFB + load times of 16 WordPress hosts. I installed the same Astra Starter Site on 16 hosting accounts while measuring their load times for 1 week at 30 minute check intervals, as well as TTFB in various tools.No caching or CDN (with same plugins) were used since I’m strictly HOW TO REMOVE UNUSED JAVASCRIPT IN WORDPRESS (EASY WAY) 3. Use A Lightweight Page Builder (Or None) If you have still have JavaScript errors in WordPress, it’s probably from page builders. Elementor and Divi (specifically) add lots of extra JavaScript to your site. Combine this with Ultimate Add-Ons and other page builders plugins, and your site can quickly become bloated. WHY YOU SHOULD NOT REMOVE STOP WORDS FROM URLS (SLUGS) Stop Words are words like the, a, is, with and other short words which some people omit because they think it makes their URLs shorter and cleaner. But that’s not always the case. Removing stop words can actually hurt your SEO because it can make your URLs read differently. For example, /growing-up-with-hearing-loss/ is NOT the same HOW TO BLOCK BAD BOTS IN WORDPRESS (WITH OR WITHOUT PLUGINS) Bad bots are a waste of server resources and can skew Google Analytics data. To block bad bots in WordPress, use Wordfence’s live traffic report to view spam bots hitting your server, then block them using Wordfence Blocking, the Blackhole For Bad Bots plugin, or CloudflareFirewall Rules.
HOW TO SPEED UP SLOW DIVI WEBSITES (ADVANCED GUIDE)WHY IS DIVI SLOW?DIVI IS SLOW BECAUSE IT ADDS EXTRA CSS AND JAVASCRIPT TO YOUR SITE WHICH CAN FLAG MULTIPLE ISSUES IN LIGHTHOUSE AND OTHER TESTING TOOLS. DIVI'S REC...WHY IS THE DIVI BACKEND SLOW?DIVI'S BACKEND CAN BE SLOW WHEN RUNNING CHEAP, SHARED HOSTING WHICH HAS LIMITED RESOURCES AND CPU LIMITS. IT CAN ALSO BE FROM RESOURCE-HUNGRY PLUGI...WHY IS DIVI'S VISUAL EDITOR SLOW?DIVI'S VISUAL EDITOR LOADS MORE RESOURCES THAN THE CLASSIC EDITOR OR GUTENBERG AND THEREFORE, CAN BE SLOWER TO LOAD. THEY HAVE BEEN WORKING ON PERF...WHY IS DIVI SLOW ON MOBILE?TRY USING MOBILE CACHING, ADAPTIVE IMAGES, AND SIMPLISTIC, RESPONSIVE DESIGN FOR YOUR MOBILE SITE. PAGESPEED INSIGHTS ALSO USES A 3GCONNECTION TO...
SiteGround – went downhill in 2020 with increased complaints about slower TTFBs, CPU limits, reduced support, price increases, high renewals, and Site Tools. Not nearly as fast as they used to be since migrating to Google Cloud. There is a large trend in Facebook Groups of people moving away from SiteGround since the value of their WordPress hosting is no longer worth it. 12 WAYS TO REDUCE TOTAL BLOCKING TIME IN WORDPRESSHOW DO I REDUCE TOTAL BLOCKING TIME IN WORDPRESS?THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY TO REDUCE TOTAL BLOCKING TIME IN WORDPRESS IS TO OPTIMIZE JAVASCRIPT FILES (INCLUDING THIRD-PARTY CODE). DEFER, DELAY, MINIF...HOW DO I REDUCE TOTAL BLOCKING TIME USING WP ROCKET?TO REDUCE BLOCKING TIME USING WP ROCKET, DELAY NON-CRITICAL JAVASCRIPT, LOAD JAVASCRIPT DEFERRED, AND MAKE SURE OPTIMIZED CSS DELIVERY IS WORKING P...HOW DO I REDUCE TOTAL BLOCKING TIME ON MOBILE?CHECK FILES WITH LONG MAIN-THREAD BLOCKING TIMES IN YOUR MOBILE SPEED REPORT AND OPTIMIZE THOSE SPECIFICALLY. AVOID HAMBURGER MENUS AND COMPLEX DES...HOW CAN I IMPROVE TOTAL BLOCKING TIME IN ELEMENTOR?ELEMENTOR ADDS A LOT OF CSS AND JAVASCRIPT WHICH CAN INCREASE TOTAL BLOCK TIMES. TRY DISABLING ELEMENTOR ASSETS USING AN ASSET UNLOADING PLUGIN. AV... 1. Find Elements Causing High Blocking Time. GTmetrix Waterfall – brown bars represent blocking time. Chrome Dev Tools – the Performance tab in Chrome Dev Tools shows total blocking time. Third-Party Code – blocking time of third-party code can be directly measured in PageSpeed Insights. Often, this is from Google Fonts, Analytics, Tag Manager, advertisements, and videos. HOW TO SPEED UP WORDPRESS ON MOBILE (99% PSI SCORES) 1. Test Your Mobile Speed. Think With Google is the best way to test mobile speed since it uses a 4G connection.. PageSpeed Insights gives you similar recommendations but it uses a 3G connection for the mobile test. This means your WordPress site will almost always load faster on HOW TO REMOVE UNUSED CSS IN WORDPRESS (PSI ITEM) 1. Remove Unused CSS In Asset CleanUp Or Perfmatters. Asset CleanUp and Perfmatters are popular plugins for removing CSS in WordPress.. Choose A Plugin To Remove Unused CSS. Asset CleanUp is free while Perfmatters is paid, but the UI/UX is better. 73 WORDPRESS PLUGINS THAT SLOW DOWN WEBSITES FROM HIGH CPU List of slow WordPress plugins *Most slow WordPress plugins include page builders (including Elementor), social sharing, statistic, slider, portfolio, calendar, chat, contact form, related post, sitemap, Jetpack, WPML, WooCommerce, and any plugin that runs ongoingscans or processes.
17 WAYS TO SPEED UP A SLOW WOOCOMMERCE SITE (2021 GUIDE) Not saying hosting is everything, but it’s the #1 speed factor.. This is a simple Pingdom test to measure TTFB + load times of 16 WordPress hosts. I installed the same Astra Starter Site on 16 hosting accounts while measuring their load times for 1 week at 30 minute check intervals, as well as TTFB in various tools.No caching or CDN (with same plugins) were used since I’m strictly HOW TO REDUCE CUMULATIVE LAYOUT SHIFT TO "0" IN WORDPRESS 1. Learn Which Elements Are Shifting. PageSpeed Insights – the “avoid large layout shift” report in your Diagnostics section shows you which individual elements have the highest CLS contribution, as well as a picture of them.. Cumulative Layout Shift Debugger – built by a Chrome engineer which uses the Layout Instability API in Chromium to detect & measure layout shifts. 14 WAYS TO FIX A SLOW WORDPRESS ADMIN PANEL (DASHBOARD) Not saying hosting is everything, but it’s the #1 speed factor.. This is a simple Pingdom test to measure TTFB + load times of 16 WordPress hosts. I installed the same Astra Starter Site on 16 hosting accounts while measuring their load times for 1 week at 30 minute check intervals, as well as TTFB in various tools.No caching or CDN (with same plugins) were used since I’m strictly SITEGROUND HAS A SLOW TTFB (IT'S NOT YOUR IMAGINATION) It’s not your imagination. SiteGround has slow TTFBs. On one hand, they migrated to Google Cloud servers, upgraded their SG Optimizer plugin, and released Ultrafast PHP on their GoGeek plan which they say can improve TTFBs by up to 50%.. On the other hand, Backlinko’s Page Speed study found SiteGround had some of the worst TTFBs.This alligned with my own test when comparing TTFBs of 16 HOW TO REMOVE UNUSED JAVASCRIPT IN WORDPRESS (EASY WAY) 3. Use A Lightweight Page Builder (Or None) If you have still have JavaScript errors in WordPress, it’s probably from page builders. Elementor and Divi (specifically) add lots of extra JavaScript to your site. Combine this with Ultimate Add-Ons and other page builders plugins, and your site can quickly become bloated. HOW TO SPEED UP SLOW DIVI WEBSITES (ADVANCED GUIDE)WHY IS DIVI SLOW?DIVI IS SLOW BECAUSE IT ADDS EXTRA CSS AND JAVASCRIPT TO YOUR SITE WHICH CAN FLAG MULTIPLE ISSUES IN LIGHTHOUSE AND OTHER TESTING TOOLS. DIVI'S REC...WHY IS THE DIVI BACKEND SLOW?DIVI'S BACKEND CAN BE SLOW WHEN RUNNING CHEAP, SHARED HOSTING WHICH HAS LIMITED RESOURCES AND CPU LIMITS. IT CAN ALSO BE FROM RESOURCE-HUNGRY PLUGI...WHY IS DIVI'S VISUAL EDITOR SLOW?DIVI'S VISUAL EDITOR LOADS MORE RESOURCES THAN THE CLASSIC EDITOR OR GUTENBERG AND THEREFORE, CAN BE SLOWER TO LOAD. THEY HAVE BEEN WORKING ON PERF...WHY IS DIVI SLOW ON MOBILE?TRY USING MOBILE CACHING, ADAPTIVE IMAGES, AND SIMPLISTIC, RESPONSIVE DESIGN FOR YOUR MOBILE SITE. PAGESPEED INSIGHTS ALSO USES A 3GCONNECTION TO...
SiteGround – went downhill in 2020 with increased complaints about slower TTFBs, CPU limits, reduced support, price increases, high renewals, and Site Tools. Not nearly as fast as they used to be since migrating to Google Cloud. There is a large trend in Facebook Groups of people moving away from SiteGround since the value of their WordPress hosting is no longer worth it. 12 WAYS TO REDUCE TOTAL BLOCKING TIME IN WORDPRESSHOW DO I REDUCE TOTAL BLOCKING TIME IN WORDPRESS?THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY TO REDUCE TOTAL BLOCKING TIME IN WORDPRESS IS TO OPTIMIZE JAVASCRIPT FILES (INCLUDING THIRD-PARTY CODE). DEFER, DELAY, MINIF...HOW DO I REDUCE TOTAL BLOCKING TIME USING WP ROCKET?TO REDUCE BLOCKING TIME USING WP ROCKET, DELAY NON-CRITICAL JAVASCRIPT, LOAD JAVASCRIPT DEFERRED, AND MAKE SURE OPTIMIZED CSS DELIVERY IS WORKING P...HOW DO I REDUCE TOTAL BLOCKING TIME ON MOBILE?CHECK FILES WITH LONG MAIN-THREAD BLOCKING TIMES IN YOUR MOBILE SPEED REPORT AND OPTIMIZE THOSE SPECIFICALLY. AVOID HAMBURGER MENUS AND COMPLEX DES...HOW CAN I IMPROVE TOTAL BLOCKING TIME IN ELEMENTOR?ELEMENTOR ADDS A LOT OF CSS AND JAVASCRIPT WHICH CAN INCREASE TOTAL BLOCK TIMES. TRY DISABLING ELEMENTOR ASSETS USING AN ASSET UNLOADING PLUGIN. AV... 1. Find Elements Causing High Blocking Time. GTmetrix Waterfall – brown bars represent blocking time. Chrome Dev Tools – the Performance tab in Chrome Dev Tools shows total blocking time. Third-Party Code – blocking time of third-party code can be directly measured in PageSpeed Insights. Often, this is from Google Fonts, Analytics, Tag Manager, advertisements, and videos. HOW TO SPEED UP WORDPRESS ON MOBILE (99% PSI SCORES) 1. Test Your Mobile Speed. Think With Google is the best way to test mobile speed since it uses a 4G connection.. PageSpeed Insights gives you similar recommendations but it uses a 3G connection for the mobile test. This means your WordPress site will almost always load faster on HOW TO REMOVE UNUSED CSS IN WORDPRESS (PSI ITEM) 1. Remove Unused CSS In Asset CleanUp Or Perfmatters. Asset CleanUp and Perfmatters are popular plugins for removing CSS in WordPress.. Choose A Plugin To Remove Unused CSS. Asset CleanUp is free while Perfmatters is paid, but the UI/UX is better. 73 WORDPRESS PLUGINS THAT SLOW DOWN WEBSITES FROM HIGH CPU List of slow WordPress plugins *Most slow WordPress plugins include page builders (including Elementor), social sharing, statistic, slider, portfolio, calendar, chat, contact form, related post, sitemap, Jetpack, WPML, WooCommerce, and any plugin that runs ongoingscans or processes.
17 WAYS TO SPEED UP A SLOW WOOCOMMERCE SITE (2021 GUIDE) Not saying hosting is everything, but it’s the #1 speed factor.. This is a simple Pingdom test to measure TTFB + load times of 16 WordPress hosts. I installed the same Astra Starter Site on 16 hosting accounts while measuring their load times for 1 week at 30 minute check intervals, as well as TTFB in various tools.No caching or CDN (with same plugins) were used since I’m strictly HOW TO REDUCE CUMULATIVE LAYOUT SHIFT TO "0" IN WORDPRESS 1. Learn Which Elements Are Shifting. PageSpeed Insights – the “avoid large layout shift” report in your Diagnostics section shows you which individual elements have the highest CLS contribution, as well as a picture of them.. Cumulative Layout Shift Debugger – built by a Chrome engineer which uses the Layout Instability API in Chromium to detect & measure layout shifts. 14 WAYS TO FIX A SLOW WORDPRESS ADMIN PANEL (DASHBOARD) Not saying hosting is everything, but it’s the #1 speed factor.. This is a simple Pingdom test to measure TTFB + load times of 16 WordPress hosts. I installed the same Astra Starter Site on 16 hosting accounts while measuring their load times for 1 week at 30 minute check intervals, as well as TTFB in various tools.No caching or CDN (with same plugins) were used since I’m strictly SITEGROUND HAS A SLOW TTFB (IT'S NOT YOUR IMAGINATION) It’s not your imagination. SiteGround has slow TTFBs. On one hand, they migrated to Google Cloud servers, upgraded their SG Optimizer plugin, and released Ultrafast PHP on their GoGeek plan which they say can improve TTFBs by up to 50%.. On the other hand, Backlinko’s Page Speed study found SiteGround had some of the worst TTFBs.This alligned with my own test when comparing TTFBs of 16 HOW TO REMOVE UNUSED JAVASCRIPT IN WORDPRESS (EASY WAY) 3. Use A Lightweight Page Builder (Or None) If you have still have JavaScript errors in WordPress, it’s probably from page builders. Elementor and Divi (specifically) add lots of extra JavaScript to your site. Combine this with Ultimate Add-Ons and other page builders plugins, and your site can quickly become bloated. 73 WORDPRESS PLUGINS THAT SLOW DOWN WEBSITES FROM HIGH CPU List of slow WordPress plugins *Most slow WordPress plugins include page builders (including Elementor), social sharing, statistic, slider, portfolio, calendar, chat, contact form, related post, sitemap, Jetpack, WPML, WooCommerce, and any plugin that runs ongoingscans or processes.
SERVE IMAGES IN NEXT-GEN FORMATS IN WORDPRESS (WEBP) When running your site through PageSpeed Insights, you may see a recommendation to serve images in next-gen formats.. Google recommends converting JPEG and PNG images to WebP. This is a next-gen image format that is supposed to be faster and higher quality. SITEGROUND HAS A SLOW TTFB (IT'S NOT YOUR IMAGINATION) It’s not your imagination. SiteGround has slow TTFBs. On one hand, they migrated to Google Cloud servers, upgraded their SG Optimizer plugin, and released Ultrafast PHP on their GoGeek plan which they say can improve TTFBs by up to 50%.. On the other hand, Backlinko’s Page Speed study found SiteGround had some of the worst TTFBs.This alligned with my own test when comparing TTFBs of 16 8 WAYS TO ELIMINATE RENDER-BLOCKING RESOURCES IN WORDPRESS In Autoptimize, optimize and aggregate CSS and JavaScript files: In Async JavaScript, click “apply defer” in the Quick Settings. If you’re using SG Optimizer or another cache plugin, they may also have an option to defer render-blocking JavaScript. 3. Inline Critical CSS. Many cache plugins have an option to optimize CSS delivery. 15 WAYS TO MINIMIZE MAIN-THREAD WORK IN WORDPRESS Take Advantage Of Lazy Load. Reduce Page Size. Reduce Memory Usage. Reconsider Animations. Consider Using Web Workers. Take Advantage Of Different Caching Types. 1. Find Long Main-Thread Tasks. To find out the source of long main-thread tasks, there are a few reports you should be looking at in PageSpeed Insights. HOW TO SPEED UP A SLOW ELEMENTOR WEBSITE (ADVANCED GUIDE) Optimize DOM Output. This improves avoid excessive DOM size in PSI. Enable it under Elementor → Settings → Experiments → Optimized DOM Output. This removes unnecessary div wrappers (elementor-inner, elementor-row, and elementor-column-wrap) in your code. Check your Elementor website for visible errors after enabling this. 3. 14 WAYS TO FIX A SLOW WORDPRESS ADMIN PANEL (DASHBOARD) Not saying hosting is everything, but it’s the #1 speed factor.. This is a simple Pingdom test to measure TTFB + load times of 16 WordPress hosts. I installed the same Astra Starter Site on 16 hosting accounts while measuring their load times for 1 week at 30 minute check intervals, as well as TTFB in various tools.No caching or CDN (with same plugins) were used since I’m strictly HOW TO REMOVE UNUSED JAVASCRIPT IN WORDPRESS (EASY WAY) 3. Use A Lightweight Page Builder (Or None) If you have still have JavaScript errors in WordPress, it’s probably from page builders. Elementor and Divi (specifically) add lots of extra JavaScript to your site. Combine this with Ultimate Add-Ons and other page builders plugins, and your site can quickly become bloated. WHY YOU SHOULD NOT REMOVE STOP WORDS FROM URLS (SLUGS) Stop Words are words like the, a, is, with and other short words which some people omit because they think it makes their URLs shorter and cleaner. But that’s not always the case. Removing stop words can actually hurt your SEO because it can make your URLs read differently. For example, /growing-up-with-hearing-loss/ is NOT the same HOW TO BLOCK BAD BOTS IN WORDPRESS (WITH OR WITHOUT PLUGINS) Bad bots are a waste of server resources and can skew Google Analytics data. To block bad bots in WordPress, use Wordfence’s live traffic report to view spam bots hitting your server, then block them using Wordfence Blocking, the Blackhole For Bad Bots plugin, or CloudflareFirewall Rules.
HOW TO SPEED UP SLOW DIVI WEBSITES (ADVANCED GUIDE) SiteGround – went downhill in 2020 with increased complaints about slower TTFBs, CPU limits, reduced support, price increases, high renewals, and Site Tools. Not nearly as fast as they used to be since migrating to Google Cloud. There is a large trend in Facebook Groups of people moving away from SiteGround since the value of their WordPress hosting is no longer worth it. 15 IMPORTANT WORDPRESS PLUGINS FOR 2021 (NO LOSERS!) Obsessed with WordPress plugins like me?. Here’s a list of plugins for SEO, speed optimization, design, security, backups, and other plugins for optimizing your site.I use all these on my own WordPress site and they all have a 4+ star rating. I wrote tutorials on many of them including how to configure the Yoast settings, optimizing content with Yoast, and configuring W3 Total Cache to HOW TO REMOVE UNUSED CSS IN WORDPRESS (PSI ITEM)HOW DO I REMOVE UNUSED CSS IN WORDPRESS?REMOVING CSS CAN BE DONE USING AN ASSET LOADING PLUGIN, CSS REMOVAL WEBSITES, MINIFICATION, AND COMBINATION. AVOID WORDPRESS PLUGINS AND PAGE BUILD...HOW DO I REMOVE UNUSED CSS USING WP ROCKET?WP ROCKET MINIFIES AND COMBINES CSS FILES. IT ALSO OPTIMIZES CSS DELIVERY WHICH GENERATES CRITICAL PATH CSS AND LOADS OTHER CSS FILES ASYNCHRONOUSL...HOW DO I REMOVE UNUSED CSS USING AUTOPTIMIZE?AUTOPTIMIZE CAN MINIFY, AGGREGATE, INLINE, AND DEFER CSS FILES. THEIR RAPIDLOAD EXTENSION IS SPECIFICALLY FOR REMOVING UNUSED CSS.HOW DO I REMOVE UNUSED CSS WITHOUT A WORDPRESS PLUGIN?IF YOU DON'T WANT TO USE A WORDPRESS PLUGIN TO REMOVE CSS, USE A CSS REMOVAL WEBSITE LIKE PURIFYCSS OR UNUSED-CSS. 1. Remove Unused CSS In Asset CleanUp Or Perfmatters. Asset CleanUp and Perfmatters are popular plugins for removing CSS in WordPress.. Choose A Plugin To Remove Unused CSS. Asset CleanUp is free while Perfmatters is paid, but the UI/UX is better. HOW TO SPEED UP WORDPRESS ON MOBILE (99% PSI SCORES) 1. Test Your Mobile Speed. Think With Google is the best way to test mobile speed since it uses a 4G connection.. PageSpeed Insights gives you similar recommendations but it uses a 3G connection for the mobile test. This means your WordPress site will almost always load faster on 17 WAYS TO SPEED UP A SLOW WOOCOMMERCE SITE (2021 GUIDE)WHY IS MY WOOCOMMERCE SITE SLOW?WOOCOMMERCE ARE NATURALLY SLOWER BECAUSE THEY ADD EXTRA WOOCOMMERCE SCRIPTS, STYLES, AND CART FRAGMENTS. THEY ALSO USUALLY REQUIRES MORE PLUGINS. T...SHOULD I DISABLE WOOCOMMERCE SCRIPTS AND STYLES?YOU CAN SAFELY DISABLE WOOCOMMERCE SCRIPTS AND STYLES IF YOUR NOT USING THEM ON NON-ECOMMERCE PAGES.SHOULD I DISABLE CART FRAGMENTS?IT'S NOT RECOMMENDED YOU DISABLE CART FRAGMENTS UNLESS YOU HAVE DONE ALL OTHER SPEED OPTIMIZATIONS. STILL, CART FRAGMENTS CAN BE HELPFUL FOR YOUR V...WHY ARE MY PRODUCT PAGES SLOW?OPTIMIZING IMAGES IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF MAKING INDIVIDUAL PRODUCT PAGES LOAD FASTER. THIS INCLUDES AVOIDING HUGE IMAGES AND COMPRESSING, LA...HOW MANY PLUGINS IS TOO MUCH FOR WOOCOMMERCE?IT'S NOT THE NUMBER OF PLUGINS THAT SLOW DOWN YOUR SITE, IT'S THE QUALITY. YOU CAN EASILY RUN OVER 30 LIGHTWEIGHT PLUGINS WITHOUT THEM HAVING HARDL... Not saying hosting is everything, but it’s the #1 speed factor.. This is a simple Pingdom test to measure TTFB + load times of 16 WordPress hosts. I installed the same Astra Starter Site on 16 hosting accounts while measuring their load times for 1 week at 30 minute check intervals, as well as TTFB in various tools.No caching or CDN (with same plugins) were used since I’m strictly 73 WORDPRESS PLUGINS THAT SLOW DOWN WEBSITES FROM HIGH CPU List of slow WordPress plugins *Most slow WordPress plugins include page builders (including Elementor), social sharing, statistic, slider, portfolio, calendar, chat, contact form, related post, sitemap, Jetpack, WPML, WooCommerce, and any plugin that runs ongoingscans or processes.
WHY YOU SHOULD NOT REMOVE STOP WORDS FROM URLS (SLUGS) Stop Words are words like the, a, is, with and other short words which some people omit because they think it makes their URLs shorter and cleaner. But that’s not always the case. Removing stop words can actually hurt your SEO because it can make your URLs read differently. For example, /growing-up-with-hearing-loss/ is NOT the same THE IDEAL SITEGROUND SG OPTIMIZER SETTINGS (2021 REVAMPED) Want to configure the ideal settings for SG Optimizer?. SG Optimizer’s settings now have nearly every feature as WP Rocket. Since SG Optimizer 5.6, they added heartbeat control, database cleanup, and prefetching external domains.Combined with the 5.0 update, SG Optimizer officially makes WP Rocket obsolete when using SiteGround.. A main benefit of SG Optimizer is that it usesserver-side
HOW TO BLOCK BAD BOTS IN WORDPRESS (WITH OR WITHOUT PLUGINS) Bad bots are a waste of server resources and can skew Google Analytics data. To block bad bots in WordPress, use Wordfence’s live traffic report to view spam bots hitting your server, then block them using Wordfence Blocking, the Blackhole For Bad Bots plugin, or CloudflareFirewall Rules.
HOW TO REMOVE UNUSED JAVASCRIPT IN WORDPRESS (EASY WAY) 3. Use A Lightweight Page Builder (Or None) If you have still have JavaScript errors in WordPress, it’s probably from page builders. Elementor and Divi (specifically) add lots of extra JavaScript to your site. Combine this with Ultimate Add-Ons and other page builders plugins, and your site can quickly become bloated. HOW TO SPEED UP SLOW DIVI WEBSITES (ADVANCED GUIDE) SiteGround – went downhill in 2020 with increased complaints about slower TTFBs, CPU limits, reduced support, price increases, high renewals, and Site Tools. Not nearly as fast as they used to be since migrating to Google Cloud. There is a large trend in Facebook Groups of people moving away from SiteGround since the value of their WordPress hosting is no longer worth it. 15 IMPORTANT WORDPRESS PLUGINS FOR 2021 (NO LOSERS!) Obsessed with WordPress plugins like me?. Here’s a list of plugins for SEO, speed optimization, design, security, backups, and other plugins for optimizing your site.I use all these on my own WordPress site and they all have a 4+ star rating. I wrote tutorials on many of them including how to configure the Yoast settings, optimizing content with Yoast, and configuring W3 Total Cache to HOW TO REMOVE UNUSED CSS IN WORDPRESS (PSI ITEM)HOW DO I REMOVE UNUSED CSS IN WORDPRESS?REMOVING CSS CAN BE DONE USING AN ASSET LOADING PLUGIN, CSS REMOVAL WEBSITES, MINIFICATION, AND COMBINATION. AVOID WORDPRESS PLUGINS AND PAGE BUILD...HOW DO I REMOVE UNUSED CSS USING WP ROCKET?WP ROCKET MINIFIES AND COMBINES CSS FILES. IT ALSO OPTIMIZES CSS DELIVERY WHICH GENERATES CRITICAL PATH CSS AND LOADS OTHER CSS FILES ASYNCHRONOUSL...HOW DO I REMOVE UNUSED CSS USING AUTOPTIMIZE?AUTOPTIMIZE CAN MINIFY, AGGREGATE, INLINE, AND DEFER CSS FILES. THEIR RAPIDLOAD EXTENSION IS SPECIFICALLY FOR REMOVING UNUSED CSS.HOW DO I REMOVE UNUSED CSS WITHOUT A WORDPRESS PLUGIN?IF YOU DON'T WANT TO USE A WORDPRESS PLUGIN TO REMOVE CSS, USE A CSS REMOVAL WEBSITE LIKE PURIFYCSS OR UNUSED-CSS. 1. Remove Unused CSS In Asset CleanUp Or Perfmatters. Asset CleanUp and Perfmatters are popular plugins for removing CSS in WordPress.. Choose A Plugin To Remove Unused CSS. Asset CleanUp is free while Perfmatters is paid, but the UI/UX is better. HOW TO SPEED UP WORDPRESS ON MOBILE (99% PSI SCORES) 1. Test Your Mobile Speed. Think With Google is the best way to test mobile speed since it uses a 4G connection.. PageSpeed Insights gives you similar recommendations but it uses a 3G connection for the mobile test. This means your WordPress site will almost always load faster on 17 WAYS TO SPEED UP A SLOW WOOCOMMERCE SITE (2021 GUIDE)WHY IS MY WOOCOMMERCE SITE SLOW?WOOCOMMERCE ARE NATURALLY SLOWER BECAUSE THEY ADD EXTRA WOOCOMMERCE SCRIPTS, STYLES, AND CART FRAGMENTS. THEY ALSO USUALLY REQUIRES MORE PLUGINS. T...SHOULD I DISABLE WOOCOMMERCE SCRIPTS AND STYLES?YOU CAN SAFELY DISABLE WOOCOMMERCE SCRIPTS AND STYLES IF YOUR NOT USING THEM ON NON-ECOMMERCE PAGES.SHOULD I DISABLE CART FRAGMENTS?IT'S NOT RECOMMENDED YOU DISABLE CART FRAGMENTS UNLESS YOU HAVE DONE ALL OTHER SPEED OPTIMIZATIONS. STILL, CART FRAGMENTS CAN BE HELPFUL FOR YOUR V...WHY ARE MY PRODUCT PAGES SLOW?OPTIMIZING IMAGES IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF MAKING INDIVIDUAL PRODUCT PAGES LOAD FASTER. THIS INCLUDES AVOIDING HUGE IMAGES AND COMPRESSING, LA...HOW MANY PLUGINS IS TOO MUCH FOR WOOCOMMERCE?IT'S NOT THE NUMBER OF PLUGINS THAT SLOW DOWN YOUR SITE, IT'S THE QUALITY. YOU CAN EASILY RUN OVER 30 LIGHTWEIGHT PLUGINS WITHOUT THEM HAVING HARDL... Not saying hosting is everything, but it’s the #1 speed factor.. This is a simple Pingdom test to measure TTFB + load times of 16 WordPress hosts. I installed the same Astra Starter Site on 16 hosting accounts while measuring their load times for 1 week at 30 minute check intervals, as well as TTFB in various tools.No caching or CDN (with same plugins) were used since I’m strictly 73 WORDPRESS PLUGINS THAT SLOW DOWN WEBSITES FROM HIGH CPU List of slow WordPress plugins *Most slow WordPress plugins include page builders (including Elementor), social sharing, statistic, slider, portfolio, calendar, chat, contact form, related post, sitemap, Jetpack, WPML, WooCommerce, and any plugin that runs ongoingscans or processes.
WHY YOU SHOULD NOT REMOVE STOP WORDS FROM URLS (SLUGS) Stop Words are words like the, a, is, with and other short words which some people omit because they think it makes their URLs shorter and cleaner. But that’s not always the case. Removing stop words can actually hurt your SEO because it can make your URLs read differently. For example, /growing-up-with-hearing-loss/ is NOT the same THE IDEAL SITEGROUND SG OPTIMIZER SETTINGS (2021 REVAMPED) Want to configure the ideal settings for SG Optimizer?. SG Optimizer’s settings now have nearly every feature as WP Rocket. Since SG Optimizer 5.6, they added heartbeat control, database cleanup, and prefetching external domains.Combined with the 5.0 update, SG Optimizer officially makes WP Rocket obsolete when using SiteGround.. A main benefit of SG Optimizer is that it usesserver-side
HOW TO BLOCK BAD BOTS IN WORDPRESS (WITH OR WITHOUT PLUGINS) Bad bots are a waste of server resources and can skew Google Analytics data. To block bad bots in WordPress, use Wordfence’s live traffic report to view spam bots hitting your server, then block them using Wordfence Blocking, the Blackhole For Bad Bots plugin, or CloudflareFirewall Rules.
HOW TO REMOVE UNUSED JAVASCRIPT IN WORDPRESS (EASY WAY) 3. Use A Lightweight Page Builder (Or None) If you have still have JavaScript errors in WordPress, it’s probably from page builders. Elementor and Divi (specifically) add lots of extra JavaScript to your site. Combine this with Ultimate Add-Ons and other page builders plugins, and your site can quickly become bloated. WORDPRESS SEO / SPEED OPTIMIZATION TUTORIALS • TOM DUPUIS WORDPRESS SEO. SEO is pretty simple. Choose a long-tail (low competition) keyword in Google Autocomplete and create in-depth content that’s better than the top results. I generally recommend Rank Math for an on-page SEO checklist, schema markup, and FAQs. YouTube and local SEO have different ranking factors such as engagement signals, GMB HOW TO FIND WORDPRESS PLUGINS SLOWING DOWN YOUR SITE WP Hive is Chrome extension that tells you which plugins in the WordPress repository are slow. Simply install the extension, go to the WordPress plugins page, and do a search for any plugin. WP Hive shows you whether the plugin affects memory usage or PageSpeed Insights. 5. Use New Relic And GTmetrix Waterfall To Find Slow Plugins. 73 WORDPRESS PLUGINS THAT SLOW DOWN WEBSITES FROM HIGH CPU List of slow WordPress plugins *Most slow WordPress plugins include page builders (including Elementor), social sharing, statistic, slider, portfolio, calendar, chat, contact form, related post, sitemap, Jetpack, WPML, WooCommerce, and any plugin that runs ongoingscans or processes.
HOW TO BLOCK BAD BOTS IN WORDPRESS (WITH OR WITHOUT PLUGINS) Bad bots are a waste of server resources and can skew Google Analytics data. To block bad bots in WordPress, use Wordfence’s live traffic report to view spam bots hitting your server, then block them using Wordfence Blocking, the Blackhole For Bad Bots plugin, or CloudflareFirewall Rules.
8 WAYS TO ELIMINATE RENDER-BLOCKING RESOURCES IN WORDPRESS In Autoptimize, optimize and aggregate CSS and JavaScript files: In Async JavaScript, click “apply defer” in the Quick Settings. If you’re using SG Optimizer or another cache plugin, they may also have an option to defer render-blocking JavaScript. 3. Inline Critical CSS. Many cache plugins have an option to optimize CSS delivery. WHY YOU SHOULD NOT REMOVE STOP WORDS FROM URLS (SLUGS) Stop Words are words like the, a, is, with and other short words which some people omit because they think it makes their URLs shorter and cleaner. But that’s not always the case. Removing stop words can actually hurt your SEO because it can make your URLs read differently. For example, /growing-up-with-hearing-loss/ is NOT the same THE IDEAL SITEGROUND SG OPTIMIZER SETTINGS (2021 REVAMPED) Want to configure the ideal settings for SG Optimizer?. SG Optimizer’s settings now have nearly every feature as WP Rocket. Since SG Optimizer 5.6, they added heartbeat control, database cleanup, and prefetching external domains.Combined with the 5.0 update, SG Optimizer officially makes WP Rocket obsolete when using SiteGround.. A main benefit of SG Optimizer is that it usesserver-side
HOW TO SPEED UP A SLOW ELEMENTOR WEBSITE (ADVANCED GUIDE) Optimize DOM Output. This improves avoid excessive DOM size in PSI. Enable it under Elementor → Settings → Experiments → Optimized DOM Output. This removes unnecessary div wrappers (elementor-inner, elementor-row, and elementor-column-wrap) in your code. Check your Elementor website for visible errors after enabling this. 3. 14 WAYS TO FIX A SLOW WORDPRESS ADMIN PANEL (DASHBOARD) Not saying hosting is everything, but it’s the #1 speed factor.. This is a simple Pingdom test to measure TTFB + load times of 16 WordPress hosts. I installed the same Astra Starter Site on 16 hosting accounts while measuring their load times for 1 week at 30 minute check intervals, as well as TTFB in various tools.No caching or CDN (with same plugins) were used since I’m strictly AN HONEST REVIEW OF YOAST SEO PREMIUM (NOT WORTH $89/YEAR) 1. Keyword Optimization. Yoast SEO Premium allows you to set multiple focus keywords (up to 5) but there is a SPECIFIC STRATEGY for doing this. When you Google both keywords, the search results should be nearly identical (same search intent).To optimize for both, your primary keyword should usually be used as an exact match while your secondary keyword should be a partial match. HOW TO SPEED UP SLOW DIVI WEBSITES (ADVANCED GUIDE) SiteGround – went downhill in 2020 with increased complaints about slower TTFBs, CPU limits, reduced support, price increases, high renewals, and Site Tools. Not nearly as fast as they used to be since migrating to Google Cloud. There is a large trend in Facebook Groups of people moving away from SiteGround since the value of their WordPress hosting is no longer worth it. HOW TO SPEED UP WORDPRESS ON MOBILE (99% PSI SCORES) 1. Test Your Mobile Speed. Think With Google is the best way to test mobile speed since it uses a 4G connection.. PageSpeed Insights gives you similar recommendations but it uses a 3G connection for the mobile test. This means your WordPress site will almost always load faster on HOW TO REMOVE UNUSED CSS IN WORDPRESS (PSI ITEM)HOW DO I REMOVE UNUSED CSS IN WORDPRESS?REMOVING CSS CAN BE DONE USING AN ASSET LOADING PLUGIN, CSS REMOVAL WEBSITES, MINIFICATION, AND COMBINATION. AVOID WORDPRESS PLUGINS AND PAGE BUILD...HOW DO I REMOVE UNUSED CSS USING WP ROCKET?WP ROCKET MINIFIES AND COMBINES CSS FILES. IT ALSO OPTIMIZES CSS DELIVERY WHICH GENERATES CRITICAL PATH CSS AND LOADS OTHER CSS FILES ASYNCHRONOUSL...HOW DO I REMOVE UNUSED CSS USING AUTOPTIMIZE?AUTOPTIMIZE CAN MINIFY, AGGREGATE, INLINE, AND DEFER CSS FILES. THEIR RAPIDLOAD EXTENSION IS SPECIFICALLY FOR REMOVING UNUSED CSS.HOW DO I REMOVE UNUSED CSS WITHOUT A WORDPRESS PLUGIN?IF YOU DON'T WANT TO USE A WORDPRESS PLUGIN TO REMOVE CSS, USE A CSS REMOVAL WEBSITE LIKE PURIFYCSS OR UNUSED-CSS. 1. Remove Unused CSS In Asset CleanUp Or Perfmatters. Asset CleanUp and Perfmatters are popular plugins for removing CSS in WordPress.. Choose A Plugin To Remove Unused CSS. Asset CleanUp is free while Perfmatters is paid, but the UI/UX is better. 17 WAYS TO SPEED UP A SLOW WOOCOMMERCE SITE (2021 GUIDE)WHY IS MY WOOCOMMERCE SITE SLOW?WOOCOMMERCE ARE NATURALLY SLOWER BECAUSE THEY ADD EXTRA WOOCOMMERCE SCRIPTS, STYLES, AND CART FRAGMENTS. THEY ALSO USUALLY REQUIRES MORE PLUGINS. T...SHOULD I DISABLE WOOCOMMERCE SCRIPTS AND STYLES?YOU CAN SAFELY DISABLE WOOCOMMERCE SCRIPTS AND STYLES IF YOUR NOT USING THEM ON NON-ECOMMERCE PAGES.SHOULD I DISABLE CART FRAGMENTS?IT'S NOT RECOMMENDED YOU DISABLE CART FRAGMENTS UNLESS YOU HAVE DONE ALL OTHER SPEED OPTIMIZATIONS. STILL, CART FRAGMENTS CAN BE HELPFUL FOR YOUR V...WHY ARE MY PRODUCT PAGES SLOW?OPTIMIZING IMAGES IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF MAKING INDIVIDUAL PRODUCT PAGES LOAD FASTER. THIS INCLUDES AVOIDING HUGE IMAGES AND COMPRESSING, LA...HOW MANY PLUGINS IS TOO MUCH FOR WOOCOMMERCE?IT'S NOT THE NUMBER OF PLUGINS THAT SLOW DOWN YOUR SITE, IT'S THE QUALITY. YOU CAN EASILY RUN OVER 30 LIGHTWEIGHT PLUGINS WITHOUT THEM HAVING HARDL... Not saying hosting is everything, but it’s the #1 speed factor.. This is a simple Pingdom test to measure TTFB + load times of 16 WordPress hosts. I installed the same Astra Starter Site on 16 hosting accounts while measuring their load times for 1 week at 30 minute check intervals, as well as TTFB in various tools.No caching or CDN (with same plugins) were used since I’m strictly 73 WORDPRESS PLUGINS THAT SLOW DOWN WEBSITES FROM HIGH CPU List of slow WordPress plugins *Most slow WordPress plugins include page builders (including Elementor), social sharing, statistic, slider, portfolio, calendar, chat, contact form, related post, sitemap, Jetpack, WPML, WooCommerce, and any plugin that runs ongoingscans or processes.
WHY YOU SHOULD NOT REMOVE STOP WORDS FROM URLS (SLUGS) Stop Words are words like the, a, is, with and other short words which some people omit because they think it makes their URLs shorter and cleaner. But that’s not always the case. Removing stop words can actually hurt your SEO because it can make your URLs read differently. For example, /growing-up-with-hearing-loss/ is NOT the same THE IDEAL SITEGROUND SG OPTIMIZER SETTINGS (2021 REVAMPED) Want to configure the ideal settings for SG Optimizer?. SG Optimizer’s settings now have nearly every feature as WP Rocket. Since SG Optimizer 5.6, they added heartbeat control, database cleanup, and prefetching external domains.Combined with the 5.0 update, SG Optimizer officially makes WP Rocket obsolete when using SiteGround.. A main benefit of SG Optimizer is that it usesserver-side
HOW TO REMOVE UNUSED JAVASCRIPT IN WORDPRESS (EASY WAY) 3. Use A Lightweight Page Builder (Or None) If you have still have JavaScript errors in WordPress, it’s probably from page builders. Elementor and Divi (specifically) add lots of extra JavaScript to your site. Combine this with Ultimate Add-Ons and other page builders plugins, and your site can quickly become bloated. HOW TO BLOCK BAD BOTS IN WORDPRESS (WITH OR WITHOUT PLUGINS) Bad bots are a waste of server resources and can skew Google Analytics data. To block bad bots in WordPress, use Wordfence’s live traffic report to view spam bots hitting your server, then block them using Wordfence Blocking, the Blackhole For Bad Bots plugin, or CloudflareFirewall Rules.
HOW TO SETUP THE NEWEST AUTOPTIMIZE SETTINGS + CDN (2021) How to setup the newest Autoptimize plugin settings with StackPath's CDN, Cloudflare, and Google Fonts (latest version 2.6.1). HOW TO SPEED UP SLOW DIVI WEBSITES (ADVANCED GUIDE) SiteGround – went downhill in 2020 with increased complaints about slower TTFBs, CPU limits, reduced support, price increases, high renewals, and Site Tools. Not nearly as fast as they used to be since migrating to Google Cloud. There is a large trend in Facebook Groups of people moving away from SiteGround since the value of their WordPress hosting is no longer worth it. HOW TO REMOVE UNUSED CSS IN WORDPRESS (PSI ITEM)HOW DO I REMOVE UNUSED CSS IN WORDPRESS?REMOVING CSS CAN BE DONE USING AN ASSET LOADING PLUGIN, CSS REMOVAL WEBSITES, MINIFICATION, AND COMBINATION. AVOID WORDPRESS PLUGINS AND PAGE BUILD...HOW DO I REMOVE UNUSED CSS USING WP ROCKET?WP ROCKET MINIFIES AND COMBINES CSS FILES. IT ALSO OPTIMIZES CSS DELIVERY WHICH GENERATES CRITICAL PATH CSS AND LOADS OTHER CSS FILES ASYNCHRONOUSL...HOW DO I REMOVE UNUSED CSS USING AUTOPTIMIZE?AUTOPTIMIZE CAN MINIFY, AGGREGATE, INLINE, AND DEFER CSS FILES. THEIR RAPIDLOAD EXTENSION IS SPECIFICALLY FOR REMOVING UNUSED CSS.HOW DO I REMOVE UNUSED CSS WITHOUT A WORDPRESS PLUGIN?IF YOU DON'T WANT TO USE A WORDPRESS PLUGIN TO REMOVE CSS, USE A CSS REMOVAL WEBSITE LIKE PURIFYCSS OR UNUSED-CSS. 1. Remove Unused CSS In Asset CleanUp Or Perfmatters. Asset CleanUp and Perfmatters are popular plugins for removing CSS in WordPress.. Choose A Plugin To Remove Unused CSS. Asset CleanUp is free while Perfmatters is paid, but the UI/UX is better. HOW TO SPEED UP WORDPRESS ON MOBILE (99% PSI SCORES) 1. Test Your Mobile Speed. Think With Google is the best way to test mobile speed since it uses a 4G connection.. PageSpeed Insights gives you similar recommendations but it uses a 3G connection for the mobile test. This means your WordPress site will almost always load faster on 17 WAYS TO SPEED UP A SLOW WOOCOMMERCE SITE (2021 GUIDE)WHY IS MY WOOCOMMERCE SITE SLOW?WOOCOMMERCE ARE NATURALLY SLOWER BECAUSE THEY ADD EXTRA WOOCOMMERCE SCRIPTS, STYLES, AND CART FRAGMENTS. THEY ALSO USUALLY REQUIRES MORE PLUGINS. T...SHOULD I DISABLE WOOCOMMERCE SCRIPTS AND STYLES?YOU CAN SAFELY DISABLE WOOCOMMERCE SCRIPTS AND STYLES IF YOUR NOT USING THEM ON NON-ECOMMERCE PAGES.SHOULD I DISABLE CART FRAGMENTS?IT'S NOT RECOMMENDED YOU DISABLE CART FRAGMENTS UNLESS YOU HAVE DONE ALL OTHER SPEED OPTIMIZATIONS. STILL, CART FRAGMENTS CAN BE HELPFUL FOR YOUR V...WHY ARE MY PRODUCT PAGES SLOW?OPTIMIZING IMAGES IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF MAKING INDIVIDUAL PRODUCT PAGES LOAD FASTER. THIS INCLUDES AVOIDING HUGE IMAGES AND COMPRESSING, LA...HOW MANY PLUGINS IS TOO MUCH FOR WOOCOMMERCE?IT'S NOT THE NUMBER OF PLUGINS THAT SLOW DOWN YOUR SITE, IT'S THE QUALITY. YOU CAN EASILY RUN OVER 30 LIGHTWEIGHT PLUGINS WITHOUT THEM HAVING HARDL... Not saying hosting is everything, but it’s the #1 speed factor.. This is a simple Pingdom test to measure TTFB + load times of 16 WordPress hosts. I installed the same Astra Starter Site on 16 hosting accounts while measuring their load times for 1 week at 30 minute check intervals, as well as TTFB in various tools.No caching or CDN (with same plugins) were used since I’m strictly 73 WORDPRESS PLUGINS THAT SLOW DOWN WEBSITES FROM HIGH CPU List of slow WordPress plugins *Most slow WordPress plugins include page builders (including Elementor), social sharing, statistic, slider, portfolio, calendar, chat, contact form, related post, sitemap, Jetpack, WPML, WooCommerce, and any plugin that runs ongoingscans or processes.
WHY YOU SHOULD NOT REMOVE STOP WORDS FROM URLS (SLUGS) Stop Words are words like the, a, is, with and other short words which some people omit because they think it makes their URLs shorter and cleaner. But that’s not always the case. Removing stop words can actually hurt your SEO because it can make your URLs read differently. For example, /growing-up-with-hearing-loss/ is NOT the same THE IDEAL SITEGROUND SG OPTIMIZER SETTINGS (2021 REVAMPED) Want to configure the ideal settings for SG Optimizer?. SG Optimizer’s settings now have nearly every feature as WP Rocket. Since SG Optimizer 5.6, they added heartbeat control, database cleanup, and prefetching external domains.Combined with the 5.0 update, SG Optimizer officially makes WP Rocket obsolete when using SiteGround.. A main benefit of SG Optimizer is that it usesserver-side
HOW TO REMOVE UNUSED JAVASCRIPT IN WORDPRESS (EASY WAY) 3. Use A Lightweight Page Builder (Or None) If you have still have JavaScript errors in WordPress, it’s probably from page builders. Elementor and Divi (specifically) add lots of extra JavaScript to your site. Combine this with Ultimate Add-Ons and other page builders plugins, and your site can quickly become bloated. HOW TO BLOCK BAD BOTS IN WORDPRESS (WITH OR WITHOUT PLUGINS) Bad bots are a waste of server resources and can skew Google Analytics data. To block bad bots in WordPress, use Wordfence’s live traffic report to view spam bots hitting your server, then block them using Wordfence Blocking, the Blackhole For Bad Bots plugin, or CloudflareFirewall Rules.
HOW TO SETUP THE NEWEST AUTOPTIMIZE SETTINGS + CDN (2021) How to setup the newest Autoptimize plugin settings with StackPath's CDN, Cloudflare, and Google Fonts (latest version 2.6.1). WORDPRESS SEO / SPEED OPTIMIZATION TUTORIALS • TOM DUPUIS WORDPRESS SEO. SEO is pretty simple. Choose a long-tail (low competition) keyword in Google Autocomplete and create in-depth content that’s better than the top results. I generally recommend Rank Math for an on-page SEO checklist, schema markup, and FAQs. YouTube and local SEO have different ranking factors such as engagement signals, GMB HOW TO FIND WORDPRESS PLUGINS SLOWING DOWN YOUR SITE WP Hive is Chrome extension that tells you which plugins in the WordPress repository are slow. Simply install the extension, go to the WordPress plugins page, and do a search for any plugin. WP Hive shows you whether the plugin affects memory usage or PageSpeed Insights. 5. Use New Relic And GTmetrix Waterfall To Find Slow Plugins. 73 WORDPRESS PLUGINS THAT SLOW DOWN WEBSITES FROM HIGH CPU List of slow WordPress plugins *Most slow WordPress plugins include page builders (including Elementor), social sharing, statistic, slider, portfolio, calendar, chat, contact form, related post, sitemap, Jetpack, WPML, WooCommerce, and any plugin that runs ongoingscans or processes.
22 REASONS YOUR WORDPRESS SITE ISN'T RANKING IN GOOGLE 7. Core Web Vitals Punched You In The Face. You need to optimize your site for core web vitals (more specifically, LCP, TBT, and CLS). I wrote an extensive guide on core web vitals (as well as a WordPress speed guide).The core web vitals guide shows you how to fix over 25 items in PageSpeed Insights – it’s worth reading. HOW TO SPEED UP A SLOW ELEMENTOR WEBSITE (ADVANCED GUIDE) Not saying hosting is everything, but it’s the #1 speed factor.. This is a simple Pingdom test to measure TTFB + load times of 16 WordPress hosts. I installed the same Astra Starter Site on 16 hosting accounts while measuring their load times for 1 week at 30 minute check intervals, as well as TTFB in various tools.No caching or CDN (with same plugins) were used since I’m strictly HOW TO BLOCK BAD BOTS IN WORDPRESS (WITH OR WITHOUT PLUGINS) Bad bots are a waste of server resources and can skew Google Analytics data. To block bad bots in WordPress, use Wordfence’s live traffic report to view spam bots hitting your server, then block them using Wordfence Blocking, the Blackhole For Bad Bots plugin, or CloudflareFirewall Rules.
SITEGROUND HAS A SLOW TTFB (IT'S NOT YOUR IMAGINATION) It’s not your imagination. SiteGround has slow TTFBs. On one hand, they migrated to Google Cloud servers, upgraded their SG Optimizer plugin, and released Ultrafast PHP on their GoGeek plan which they say can improve TTFBs by up to 50%.. On the other hand, Backlinko’s Page Speed study found SiteGround had some of the worst TTFBs.This alligned with my own test when comparing TTFBs of 16 14 WAYS TO FIX A SLOW WORDPRESS ADMIN PANEL (DASHBOARD) Not saying hosting is everything, but it’s the #1 speed factor.. This is a simple Pingdom test to measure TTFB + load times of 16 WordPress hosts. I installed the same Astra Starter Site on 16 hosting accounts while measuring their load times for 1 week at 30 minute check intervals, as well as TTFB in various tools.No caching or CDN (with same plugins) were used since I’m strictly WHY YOU SHOULD NOT REMOVE STOP WORDS FROM URLS (SLUGS) Stop Words are words like the, a, is, with and other short words which some people omit because they think it makes their URLs shorter and cleaner. But that’s not always the case. Removing stop words can actually hurt your SEO because it can make your URLs read differently. For example, /growing-up-with-hearing-loss/ is NOT the same AN HONEST REVIEW OF YOAST SEO PREMIUM (NOT WORTH $89/YEAR) 1. Keyword Optimization. Yoast SEO Premium allows you to set multiple focus keywords (up to 5) but there is a SPECIFIC STRATEGY for doing this. When you Google both keywords, the search results should be nearly identical (same search intent).To optimize for both, your primary keyword should usually be used as an exact match while your secondary keyword should be a partial match. HOW TO SPEED UP SLOW DIVI WEBSITES (ADVANCED GUIDE) SiteGround – went downhill in 2020 with increased complaints about slower TTFBs, CPU limits, reduced support, price increases, high renewals, and Site Tools. Not nearly as fast as they used to be since migrating to Google Cloud. There is a large trend in Facebook Groups of people moving away from SiteGround since the value of their WordPress hosting is no longer worth it. HOW TO SPEED UP WORDPRESS ON MOBILE (99% PSI SCORES) 1. Test Your Mobile Speed. Think With Google is the best way to test mobile speed since it uses a 4G connection.. PageSpeed Insights gives you similar recommendations but it uses a 3G connection for the mobile test. This means your WordPress site will almost always load faster on HOW TO REMOVE UNUSED CSS IN WORDPRESS (PSI ITEM)HOW DO I REMOVE UNUSED CSS IN WORDPRESS?REMOVING CSS CAN BE DONE USING AN ASSET LOADING PLUGIN, CSS REMOVAL WEBSITES, MINIFICATION, AND COMBINATION. AVOID WORDPRESS PLUGINS AND PAGE BUILD...HOW DO I REMOVE UNUSED CSS USING WP ROCKET?WP ROCKET MINIFIES AND COMBINES CSS FILES. IT ALSO OPTIMIZES CSS DELIVERY WHICH GENERATES CRITICAL PATH CSS AND LOADS OTHER CSS FILES ASYNCHRONOUSL...HOW DO I REMOVE UNUSED CSS USING AUTOPTIMIZE?AUTOPTIMIZE CAN MINIFY, AGGREGATE, INLINE, AND DEFER CSS FILES. THEIR RAPIDLOAD EXTENSION IS SPECIFICALLY FOR REMOVING UNUSED CSS.HOW DO I REMOVE UNUSED CSS WITHOUT A WORDPRESS PLUGIN?IF YOU DON'T WANT TO USE A WORDPRESS PLUGIN TO REMOVE CSS, USE A CSS REMOVAL WEBSITE LIKE PURIFYCSS OR UNUSED-CSS. 1. Remove Unused CSS In Asset CleanUp Or Perfmatters. Asset CleanUp and Perfmatters are popular plugins for removing CSS in WordPress.. Choose A Plugin To Remove Unused CSS. Asset CleanUp is free while Perfmatters is paid, but the UI/UX is better. 17 WAYS TO SPEED UP A SLOW WOOCOMMERCE SITE (2021 GUIDE)WHY IS MY WOOCOMMERCE SITE SLOW?WOOCOMMERCE ARE NATURALLY SLOWER BECAUSE THEY ADD EXTRA WOOCOMMERCE SCRIPTS, STYLES, AND CART FRAGMENTS. THEY ALSO USUALLY REQUIRES MORE PLUGINS. T...SHOULD I DISABLE WOOCOMMERCE SCRIPTS AND STYLES?YOU CAN SAFELY DISABLE WOOCOMMERCE SCRIPTS AND STYLES IF YOUR NOT USING THEM ON NON-ECOMMERCE PAGES.SHOULD I DISABLE CART FRAGMENTS?IT'S NOT RECOMMENDED YOU DISABLE CART FRAGMENTS UNLESS YOU HAVE DONE ALL OTHER SPEED OPTIMIZATIONS. STILL, CART FRAGMENTS CAN BE HELPFUL FOR YOUR V...WHY ARE MY PRODUCT PAGES SLOW?OPTIMIZING IMAGES IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF MAKING INDIVIDUAL PRODUCT PAGES LOAD FASTER. THIS INCLUDES AVOIDING HUGE IMAGES AND COMPRESSING, LA...HOW MANY PLUGINS IS TOO MUCH FOR WOOCOMMERCE?IT'S NOT THE NUMBER OF PLUGINS THAT SLOW DOWN YOUR SITE, IT'S THE QUALITY. YOU CAN EASILY RUN OVER 30 LIGHTWEIGHT PLUGINS WITHOUT THEM HAVING HARDL... Not saying hosting is everything, but it’s the #1 speed factor.. This is a simple Pingdom test to measure TTFB + load times of 16 WordPress hosts. I installed the same Astra Starter Site on 16 hosting accounts while measuring their load times for 1 week at 30 minute check intervals, as well as TTFB in various tools.No caching or CDN (with same plugins) were used since I’m strictly 73 WORDPRESS PLUGINS THAT SLOW DOWN WEBSITES FROM HIGH CPU List of slow WordPress plugins *Most slow WordPress plugins include page builders (including Elementor), social sharing, statistic, slider, portfolio, calendar, chat, contact form, related post, sitemap, Jetpack, WPML, WooCommerce, and any plugin that runs ongoingscans or processes.
WHY YOU SHOULD NOT REMOVE STOP WORDS FROM URLS (SLUGS) Stop Words are words like the, a, is, with and other short words which some people omit because they think it makes their URLs shorter and cleaner. But that’s not always the case. Removing stop words can actually hurt your SEO because it can make your URLs read differently. For example, /growing-up-with-hearing-loss/ is NOT the same THE IDEAL SITEGROUND SG OPTIMIZER SETTINGS (2021 REVAMPED) Want to configure the ideal settings for SG Optimizer?. SG Optimizer’s settings now have nearly every feature as WP Rocket. Since SG Optimizer 5.6, they added heartbeat control, database cleanup, and prefetching external domains.Combined with the 5.0 update, SG Optimizer officially makes WP Rocket obsolete when using SiteGround.. A main benefit of SG Optimizer is that it usesserver-side
HOW TO REMOVE UNUSED JAVASCRIPT IN WORDPRESS (EASY WAY) 3. Use A Lightweight Page Builder (Or None) If you have still have JavaScript errors in WordPress, it’s probably from page builders. Elementor and Divi (specifically) add lots of extra JavaScript to your site. Combine this with Ultimate Add-Ons and other page builders plugins, and your site can quickly become bloated. HOW TO BLOCK BAD BOTS IN WORDPRESS (WITH OR WITHOUT PLUGINS) Bad bots are a waste of server resources and can skew Google Analytics data. To block bad bots in WordPress, use Wordfence’s live traffic report to view spam bots hitting your server, then block them using Wordfence Blocking, the Blackhole For Bad Bots plugin, or CloudflareFirewall Rules.
HOW TO SETUP THE NEWEST AUTOPTIMIZE SETTINGS + CDN (2021) How to setup the newest Autoptimize plugin settings with StackPath's CDN, Cloudflare, and Google Fonts (latest version 2.6.1). HOW TO SPEED UP SLOW DIVI WEBSITES (ADVANCED GUIDE) SiteGround – went downhill in 2020 with increased complaints about slower TTFBs, CPU limits, reduced support, price increases, high renewals, and Site Tools. Not nearly as fast as they used to be since migrating to Google Cloud. There is a large trend in Facebook Groups of people moving away from SiteGround since the value of their WordPress hosting is no longer worth it. HOW TO SPEED UP WORDPRESS ON MOBILE (99% PSI SCORES) 1. Test Your Mobile Speed. Think With Google is the best way to test mobile speed since it uses a 4G connection.. PageSpeed Insights gives you similar recommendations but it uses a 3G connection for the mobile test. This means your WordPress site will almost always load faster on HOW TO REMOVE UNUSED CSS IN WORDPRESS (PSI ITEM)HOW DO I REMOVE UNUSED CSS IN WORDPRESS?REMOVING CSS CAN BE DONE USING AN ASSET LOADING PLUGIN, CSS REMOVAL WEBSITES, MINIFICATION, AND COMBINATION. AVOID WORDPRESS PLUGINS AND PAGE BUILD...HOW DO I REMOVE UNUSED CSS USING WP ROCKET?WP ROCKET MINIFIES AND COMBINES CSS FILES. IT ALSO OPTIMIZES CSS DELIVERY WHICH GENERATES CRITICAL PATH CSS AND LOADS OTHER CSS FILES ASYNCHRONOUSL...HOW DO I REMOVE UNUSED CSS USING AUTOPTIMIZE?AUTOPTIMIZE CAN MINIFY, AGGREGATE, INLINE, AND DEFER CSS FILES. THEIR RAPIDLOAD EXTENSION IS SPECIFICALLY FOR REMOVING UNUSED CSS.HOW DO I REMOVE UNUSED CSS WITHOUT A WORDPRESS PLUGIN?IF YOU DON'T WANT TO USE A WORDPRESS PLUGIN TO REMOVE CSS, USE A CSS REMOVAL WEBSITE LIKE PURIFYCSS OR UNUSED-CSS. 1. Remove Unused CSS In Asset CleanUp Or Perfmatters. Asset CleanUp and Perfmatters are popular plugins for removing CSS in WordPress.. Choose A Plugin To Remove Unused CSS. Asset CleanUp is free while Perfmatters is paid, but the UI/UX is better. 17 WAYS TO SPEED UP A SLOW WOOCOMMERCE SITE (2021 GUIDE)WHY IS MY WOOCOMMERCE SITE SLOW?WOOCOMMERCE ARE NATURALLY SLOWER BECAUSE THEY ADD EXTRA WOOCOMMERCE SCRIPTS, STYLES, AND CART FRAGMENTS. THEY ALSO USUALLY REQUIRES MORE PLUGINS. T...SHOULD I DISABLE WOOCOMMERCE SCRIPTS AND STYLES?YOU CAN SAFELY DISABLE WOOCOMMERCE SCRIPTS AND STYLES IF YOUR NOT USING THEM ON NON-ECOMMERCE PAGES.SHOULD I DISABLE CART FRAGMENTS?IT'S NOT RECOMMENDED YOU DISABLE CART FRAGMENTS UNLESS YOU HAVE DONE ALL OTHER SPEED OPTIMIZATIONS. STILL, CART FRAGMENTS CAN BE HELPFUL FOR YOUR V...WHY ARE MY PRODUCT PAGES SLOW?OPTIMIZING IMAGES IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF MAKING INDIVIDUAL PRODUCT PAGES LOAD FASTER. THIS INCLUDES AVOIDING HUGE IMAGES AND COMPRESSING, LA...HOW MANY PLUGINS IS TOO MUCH FOR WOOCOMMERCE?IT'S NOT THE NUMBER OF PLUGINS THAT SLOW DOWN YOUR SITE, IT'S THE QUALITY. YOU CAN EASILY RUN OVER 30 LIGHTWEIGHT PLUGINS WITHOUT THEM HAVING HARDL... Not saying hosting is everything, but it’s the #1 speed factor.. This is a simple Pingdom test to measure TTFB + load times of 16 WordPress hosts. I installed the same Astra Starter Site on 16 hosting accounts while measuring their load times for 1 week at 30 minute check intervals, as well as TTFB in various tools.No caching or CDN (with same plugins) were used since I’m strictly 73 WORDPRESS PLUGINS THAT SLOW DOWN WEBSITES FROM HIGH CPU List of slow WordPress plugins *Most slow WordPress plugins include page builders (including Elementor), social sharing, statistic, slider, portfolio, calendar, chat, contact form, related post, sitemap, Jetpack, WPML, WooCommerce, and any plugin that runs ongoingscans or processes.
WHY YOU SHOULD NOT REMOVE STOP WORDS FROM URLS (SLUGS) Stop Words are words like the, a, is, with and other short words which some people omit because they think it makes their URLs shorter and cleaner. But that’s not always the case. Removing stop words can actually hurt your SEO because it can make your URLs read differently. For example, /growing-up-with-hearing-loss/ is NOT the same THE IDEAL SITEGROUND SG OPTIMIZER SETTINGS (2021 REVAMPED) Want to configure the ideal settings for SG Optimizer?. SG Optimizer’s settings now have nearly every feature as WP Rocket. Since SG Optimizer 5.6, they added heartbeat control, database cleanup, and prefetching external domains.Combined with the 5.0 update, SG Optimizer officially makes WP Rocket obsolete when using SiteGround.. A main benefit of SG Optimizer is that it usesserver-side
HOW TO REMOVE UNUSED JAVASCRIPT IN WORDPRESS (EASY WAY) 3. Use A Lightweight Page Builder (Or None) If you have still have JavaScript errors in WordPress, it’s probably from page builders. Elementor and Divi (specifically) add lots of extra JavaScript to your site. Combine this with Ultimate Add-Ons and other page builders plugins, and your site can quickly become bloated. HOW TO BLOCK BAD BOTS IN WORDPRESS (WITH OR WITHOUT PLUGINS) Bad bots are a waste of server resources and can skew Google Analytics data. To block bad bots in WordPress, use Wordfence’s live traffic report to view spam bots hitting your server, then block them using Wordfence Blocking, the Blackhole For Bad Bots plugin, or CloudflareFirewall Rules.
HOW TO SETUP THE NEWEST AUTOPTIMIZE SETTINGS + CDN (2021) How to setup the newest Autoptimize plugin settings with StackPath's CDN, Cloudflare, and Google Fonts (latest version 2.6.1). WORDPRESS SEO / SPEED OPTIMIZATION TUTORIALS • TOM DUPUIS WORDPRESS SEO. SEO is pretty simple. Choose a long-tail (low competition) keyword in Google Autocomplete and create in-depth content that’s better than the top results. I generally recommend Rank Math for an on-page SEO checklist, schema markup, and FAQs. YouTube and local SEO have different ranking factors such as engagement signals, GMB HOW TO FIND WORDPRESS PLUGINS SLOWING DOWN YOUR SITE WP Hive is Chrome extension that tells you which plugins in the WordPress repository are slow. Simply install the extension, go to the WordPress plugins page, and do a search for any plugin. WP Hive shows you whether the plugin affects memory usage or PageSpeed Insights. 5. Use New Relic And GTmetrix Waterfall To Find Slow Plugins. 73 WORDPRESS PLUGINS THAT SLOW DOWN WEBSITES FROM HIGH CPU List of slow WordPress plugins *Most slow WordPress plugins include page builders (including Elementor), social sharing, statistic, slider, portfolio, calendar, chat, contact form, related post, sitemap, Jetpack, WPML, WooCommerce, and any plugin that runs ongoingscans or processes.
22 REASONS YOUR WORDPRESS SITE ISN'T RANKING IN GOOGLE 7. Core Web Vitals Punched You In The Face. You need to optimize your site for core web vitals (more specifically, LCP, TBT, and CLS). I wrote an extensive guide on core web vitals (as well as a WordPress speed guide).The core web vitals guide shows you how to fix over 25 items in PageSpeed Insights – it’s worth reading. HOW TO SPEED UP A SLOW ELEMENTOR WEBSITE (ADVANCED GUIDE) Not saying hosting is everything, but it’s the #1 speed factor.. This is a simple Pingdom test to measure TTFB + load times of 16 WordPress hosts. I installed the same Astra Starter Site on 16 hosting accounts while measuring their load times for 1 week at 30 minute check intervals, as well as TTFB in various tools.No caching or CDN (with same plugins) were used since I’m strictly HOW TO BLOCK BAD BOTS IN WORDPRESS (WITH OR WITHOUT PLUGINS) Bad bots are a waste of server resources and can skew Google Analytics data. To block bad bots in WordPress, use Wordfence’s live traffic report to view spam bots hitting your server, then block them using Wordfence Blocking, the Blackhole For Bad Bots plugin, or CloudflareFirewall Rules.
SITEGROUND HAS A SLOW TTFB (IT'S NOT YOUR IMAGINATION) It’s not your imagination. SiteGround has slow TTFBs. On one hand, they migrated to Google Cloud servers, upgraded their SG Optimizer plugin, and released Ultrafast PHP on their GoGeek plan which they say can improve TTFBs by up to 50%.. On the other hand, Backlinko’s Page Speed study found SiteGround had some of the worst TTFBs.This alligned with my own test when comparing TTFBs of 16 14 WAYS TO FIX A SLOW WORDPRESS ADMIN PANEL (DASHBOARD) Not saying hosting is everything, but it’s the #1 speed factor.. This is a simple Pingdom test to measure TTFB + load times of 16 WordPress hosts. I installed the same Astra Starter Site on 16 hosting accounts while measuring their load times for 1 week at 30 minute check intervals, as well as TTFB in various tools.No caching or CDN (with same plugins) were used since I’m strictly WHY YOU SHOULD NOT REMOVE STOP WORDS FROM URLS (SLUGS) Stop Words are words like the, a, is, with and other short words which some people omit because they think it makes their URLs shorter and cleaner. But that’s not always the case. Removing stop words can actually hurt your SEO because it can make your URLs read differently. For example, /growing-up-with-hearing-loss/ is NOT the same AN HONEST REVIEW OF YOAST SEO PREMIUM (NOT WORTH $89/YEAR) 1. Keyword Optimization. Yoast SEO Premium allows you to set multiple focus keywords (up to 5) but there is a SPECIFIC STRATEGY for doing this. When you Google both keywords, the search results should be nearly identical (same search intent).To optimize for both, your primary keyword should usually be used as an exact match while your secondary keyword should be a partial match. HOW TO SPEED UP SLOW DIVI WEBSITES (ADVANCED GUIDE) SiteGround – went downhill in 2020 with increased complaints about slower TTFBs, CPU limits, reduced support, price increases, high renewals, and Site Tools. Not nearly as fast as they used to be since migrating to Google Cloud. There is a large trend in Facebook Groups of people moving away from SiteGround since the value of their WordPress hosting is no longer worth it. HOW TO SPEED UP A SLOW ELEMENTOR WEBSITE (ADVANCED GUIDE) Not saying hosting is everything, but it’s the #1 speed factor.. This is a simple Pingdom test to measure TTFB + load times of 16 WordPress hosts. I installed the same Astra Starter Site on 16 hosting accounts while measuring their load times for 1 week at 30 minute check intervals, as well as TTFB in various tools.No caching or CDN (with same plugins) were used since I’m strictly 12 WAYS TO REDUCE TOTAL BLOCKING TIME IN WORDPRESSHOW DO I REDUCE TOTAL BLOCKING TIME IN WORDPRESS?THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY TO REDUCE TOTAL BLOCKING TIME IN WORDPRESS IS TO OPTIMIZE JAVASCRIPT FILES (INCLUDING THIRD-PARTY CODE). DEFER, DELAY, MINIF...HOW DO I REDUCE TOTAL BLOCKING TIME USING WP ROCKET?TO REDUCE BLOCKING TIME USING WP ROCKET, DELAY NON-CRITICAL JAVASCRIPT, LOAD JAVASCRIPT DEFERRED, AND MAKE SURE OPTIMIZED CSS DELIVERY IS WORKING P...HOW DO I REDUCE TOTAL BLOCKING TIME ON MOBILE?CHECK FILES WITH LONG MAIN-THREAD BLOCKING TIMES IN YOUR MOBILE SPEED REPORT AND OPTIMIZE THOSE SPECIFICALLY. AVOID HAMBURGER MENUS AND COMPLEX DES...HOW CAN I IMPROVE TOTAL BLOCKING TIME IN ELEMENTOR?ELEMENTOR ADDS A LOT OF CSS AND JAVASCRIPT WHICH CAN INCREASE TOTAL BLOCK TIMES. TRY DISABLING ELEMENTOR ASSETS USING AN ASSET UNLOADING PLUGIN. AV... 1. Find Elements Causing High Blocking Time. GTmetrix Waterfall – brown bars represent blocking time. Chrome Dev Tools – the Performance tab in Chrome Dev Tools shows total blocking time. Third-Party Code – blocking time of third-party code can be directly measured in PageSpeed Insights. Often, this is from Google Fonts, Analytics, Tag Manager, advertisements, and videos. 17 WAYS TO SPEED UP A SLOW WOOCOMMERCE SITE (2021 GUIDE)WHY IS MY WOOCOMMERCE SITE SLOW?WOOCOMMERCE ARE NATURALLY SLOWER BECAUSE THEY ADD EXTRA WOOCOMMERCE SCRIPTS, STYLES, AND CART FRAGMENTS. THEY ALSO USUALLY REQUIRES MORE PLUGINS. T...SHOULD I DISABLE WOOCOMMERCE SCRIPTS AND STYLES?YOU CAN SAFELY DISABLE WOOCOMMERCE SCRIPTS AND STYLES IF YOUR NOT USING THEM ON NON-ECOMMERCE PAGES.SHOULD I DISABLE CART FRAGMENTS?IT'S NOT RECOMMENDED YOU DISABLE CART FRAGMENTS UNLESS YOU HAVE DONE ALL OTHER SPEED OPTIMIZATIONS. STILL, CART FRAGMENTS CAN BE HELPFUL FOR YOUR V...WHY ARE MY PRODUCT PAGES SLOW?OPTIMIZING IMAGES IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF MAKING INDIVIDUAL PRODUCT PAGES LOAD FASTER. THIS INCLUDES AVOIDING HUGE IMAGES AND COMPRESSING, LA...HOW MANY PLUGINS IS TOO MUCH FOR WOOCOMMERCE?IT'S NOT THE NUMBER OF PLUGINS THAT SLOW DOWN YOUR SITE, IT'S THE QUALITY. YOU CAN EASILY RUN OVER 30 LIGHTWEIGHT PLUGINS WITHOUT THEM HAVING HARDL... Not saying hosting is everything, but it’s the #1 speed factor.. This is a simple Pingdom test to measure TTFB + load times of 16 WordPress hosts. I installed the same Astra Starter Site on 16 hosting accounts while measuring their load times for 1 week at 30 minute check intervals, as well as TTFB in various tools.No caching or CDN (with same plugins) were used since I’m strictly HOW TO SPEED UP WORDPRESS ON MOBILE (99% PSI SCORES) Optimize Plugins. Use A Better Cache Plugin. 1. Test Your Mobile Speed. Think With Google is the best way to test mobile speed since it uses a 4G connection. PageSpeed Insights gives you similar recommendations but it uses a 3G connection for the mobile test. This means your WordPress site will almost always load faster on thedesktop test.
HOW TO SPECIFY IMAGE DIMENSIONS IN WORDPRESS (GTMETRIX) 2. Copy The Image’s Width + Height From GTmetrix. Next, copy the image’s width and height (provided by GTmetrix). 3. Locate The Image On Your Website. Now we need to locate the image on your WordPress site. The WordPress visual editor automatically specifies image dimensions for you, so there’s usually no errors for images here. 73 WORDPRESS PLUGINS THAT SLOW DOWN WEBSITES FROM HIGH CPU List of slow WordPress plugins *Most slow WordPress plugins include page builders (including Elementor), social sharing, statistic, slider, portfolio, calendar, chat, contact form, related post, sitemap, Jetpack, WPML, WooCommerce, and any plugin that runs ongoingscans or processes.
WHY YOU SHOULD NOT REMOVE STOP WORDS FROM URLS (SLUGS) Stop Words are words like the, a, is, with and other short words which some people omit because they think it makes their URLs shorter and cleaner. But that’s not always the case. Removing stop words can actually hurt your SEO because it can make your URLs read differently. For example, /growing-up-with-hearing-loss/ is NOT the same THE IDEAL SITEGROUND SG OPTIMIZER SETTINGS (2021 REVAMPED) Want to configure the ideal settings for SG Optimizer?. SG Optimizer’s settings now have nearly every feature as WP Rocket. Since SG Optimizer 5.6, they added heartbeat control, database cleanup, and prefetching external domains.Combined with the 5.0 update, SG Optimizer officially makes WP Rocket obsolete when using SiteGround.. A main benefit of SG Optimizer is that it usesserver-side
HOW TO BLOCK BAD BOTS IN WORDPRESS (WITH OR WITHOUT PLUGINS) Bad bots are a waste of server resources and can skew Google Analytics data. To block bad bots in WordPress, use Wordfence’s live traffic report to view spam bots hitting your server, then block them using Wordfence Blocking, the Blackhole For Bad Bots plugin, or CloudflareFirewall Rules.
HOW TO SPEED UP SLOW DIVI WEBSITES (ADVANCED GUIDE) SiteGround – went downhill in 2020 with increased complaints about slower TTFBs, CPU limits, reduced support, price increases, high renewals, and Site Tools. Not nearly as fast as they used to be since migrating to Google Cloud. There is a large trend in Facebook Groups of people moving away from SiteGround since the value of their WordPress hosting is no longer worth it. HOW TO SPEED UP A SLOW ELEMENTOR WEBSITE (ADVANCED GUIDE) Not saying hosting is everything, but it’s the #1 speed factor.. This is a simple Pingdom test to measure TTFB + load times of 16 WordPress hosts. I installed the same Astra Starter Site on 16 hosting accounts while measuring their load times for 1 week at 30 minute check intervals, as well as TTFB in various tools.No caching or CDN (with same plugins) were used since I’m strictly 12 WAYS TO REDUCE TOTAL BLOCKING TIME IN WORDPRESSHOW DO I REDUCE TOTAL BLOCKING TIME IN WORDPRESS?THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY TO REDUCE TOTAL BLOCKING TIME IN WORDPRESS IS TO OPTIMIZE JAVASCRIPT FILES (INCLUDING THIRD-PARTY CODE). DEFER, DELAY, MINIF...HOW DO I REDUCE TOTAL BLOCKING TIME USING WP ROCKET?TO REDUCE BLOCKING TIME USING WP ROCKET, DELAY NON-CRITICAL JAVASCRIPT, LOAD JAVASCRIPT DEFERRED, AND MAKE SURE OPTIMIZED CSS DELIVERY IS WORKING P...HOW DO I REDUCE TOTAL BLOCKING TIME ON MOBILE?CHECK FILES WITH LONG MAIN-THREAD BLOCKING TIMES IN YOUR MOBILE SPEED REPORT AND OPTIMIZE THOSE SPECIFICALLY. AVOID HAMBURGER MENUS AND COMPLEX DES...HOW CAN I IMPROVE TOTAL BLOCKING TIME IN ELEMENTOR?ELEMENTOR ADDS A LOT OF CSS AND JAVASCRIPT WHICH CAN INCREASE TOTAL BLOCK TIMES. TRY DISABLING ELEMENTOR ASSETS USING AN ASSET UNLOADING PLUGIN. AV... 1. Find Elements Causing High Blocking Time. GTmetrix Waterfall – brown bars represent blocking time. Chrome Dev Tools – the Performance tab in Chrome Dev Tools shows total blocking time. Third-Party Code – blocking time of third-party code can be directly measured in PageSpeed Insights. Often, this is from Google Fonts, Analytics, Tag Manager, advertisements, and videos. 17 WAYS TO SPEED UP A SLOW WOOCOMMERCE SITE (2021 GUIDE)WHY IS MY WOOCOMMERCE SITE SLOW?WOOCOMMERCE ARE NATURALLY SLOWER BECAUSE THEY ADD EXTRA WOOCOMMERCE SCRIPTS, STYLES, AND CART FRAGMENTS. THEY ALSO USUALLY REQUIRES MORE PLUGINS. T...SHOULD I DISABLE WOOCOMMERCE SCRIPTS AND STYLES?YOU CAN SAFELY DISABLE WOOCOMMERCE SCRIPTS AND STYLES IF YOUR NOT USING THEM ON NON-ECOMMERCE PAGES.SHOULD I DISABLE CART FRAGMENTS?IT'S NOT RECOMMENDED YOU DISABLE CART FRAGMENTS UNLESS YOU HAVE DONE ALL OTHER SPEED OPTIMIZATIONS. STILL, CART FRAGMENTS CAN BE HELPFUL FOR YOUR V...WHY ARE MY PRODUCT PAGES SLOW?OPTIMIZING IMAGES IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF MAKING INDIVIDUAL PRODUCT PAGES LOAD FASTER. THIS INCLUDES AVOIDING HUGE IMAGES AND COMPRESSING, LA...HOW MANY PLUGINS IS TOO MUCH FOR WOOCOMMERCE?IT'S NOT THE NUMBER OF PLUGINS THAT SLOW DOWN YOUR SITE, IT'S THE QUALITY. YOU CAN EASILY RUN OVER 30 LIGHTWEIGHT PLUGINS WITHOUT THEM HAVING HARDL... Not saying hosting is everything, but it’s the #1 speed factor.. This is a simple Pingdom test to measure TTFB + load times of 16 WordPress hosts. I installed the same Astra Starter Site on 16 hosting accounts while measuring their load times for 1 week at 30 minute check intervals, as well as TTFB in various tools.No caching or CDN (with same plugins) were used since I’m strictly HOW TO SPEED UP WORDPRESS ON MOBILE (99% PSI SCORES) Optimize Plugins. Use A Better Cache Plugin. 1. Test Your Mobile Speed. Think With Google is the best way to test mobile speed since it uses a 4G connection. PageSpeed Insights gives you similar recommendations but it uses a 3G connection for the mobile test. This means your WordPress site will almost always load faster on thedesktop test.
HOW TO SPECIFY IMAGE DIMENSIONS IN WORDPRESS (GTMETRIX) 2. Copy The Image’s Width + Height From GTmetrix. Next, copy the image’s width and height (provided by GTmetrix). 3. Locate The Image On Your Website. Now we need to locate the image on your WordPress site. The WordPress visual editor automatically specifies image dimensions for you, so there’s usually no errors for images here. 73 WORDPRESS PLUGINS THAT SLOW DOWN WEBSITES FROM HIGH CPU List of slow WordPress plugins *Most slow WordPress plugins include page builders (including Elementor), social sharing, statistic, slider, portfolio, calendar, chat, contact form, related post, sitemap, Jetpack, WPML, WooCommerce, and any plugin that runs ongoingscans or processes.
WHY YOU SHOULD NOT REMOVE STOP WORDS FROM URLS (SLUGS) Stop Words are words like the, a, is, with and other short words which some people omit because they think it makes their URLs shorter and cleaner. But that’s not always the case. Removing stop words can actually hurt your SEO because it can make your URLs read differently. For example, /growing-up-with-hearing-loss/ is NOT the same THE IDEAL SITEGROUND SG OPTIMIZER SETTINGS (2021 REVAMPED) Want to configure the ideal settings for SG Optimizer?. SG Optimizer’s settings now have nearly every feature as WP Rocket. Since SG Optimizer 5.6, they added heartbeat control, database cleanup, and prefetching external domains.Combined with the 5.0 update, SG Optimizer officially makes WP Rocket obsolete when using SiteGround.. A main benefit of SG Optimizer is that it usesserver-side
HOW TO BLOCK BAD BOTS IN WORDPRESS (WITH OR WITHOUT PLUGINS) Bad bots are a waste of server resources and can skew Google Analytics data. To block bad bots in WordPress, use Wordfence’s live traffic report to view spam bots hitting your server, then block them using Wordfence Blocking, the Blackhole For Bad Bots plugin, or CloudflareFirewall Rules.
WORDPRESS SEO / SPEED OPTIMIZATION TUTORIALS • TOM DUPUIS WORDPRESS SEO. SEO is pretty simple. Choose a long-tail (low competition) keyword in Google Autocomplete and create in-depth content that’s better than the top results. I generally recommend Rank Math for an on-page SEO checklist, schema markup, and FAQs. YouTube and local SEO have different ranking factors such as engagement signals, GMB HOW TO SPEED UP A SLOW ELEMENTOR WEBSITE (ADVANCED GUIDE) Not saying hosting is everything, but it’s the #1 speed factor.. This is a simple Pingdom test to measure TTFB + load times of 16 WordPress hosts. I installed the same Astra Starter Site on 16 hosting accounts while measuring their load times for 1 week at 30 minute check intervals, as well as TTFB in various tools.No caching or CDN (with same plugins) were used since I’m strictly HOW TO SPEED UP WORDPRESS ON MOBILE (99% PSI SCORES) 1. Test Your Mobile Speed. Think With Google is the best way to test mobile speed since it uses a 4G connection.. PageSpeed Insights gives you similar recommendations but it uses a 3G connection for the mobile test. This means your WordPress site will almost always load faster on 22 REASONS YOUR WORDPRESS SITE ISN'T RANKING IN GOOGLE 7. Core Web Vitals Punched You In The Face. You need to optimize your site for core web vitals (more specifically, LCP, TBT, and CLS). I wrote an extensive guide on core web vitals (as well as a WordPress speed guide).The core web vitals guide shows you how to fix over 25 items in PageSpeed Insights – it’s worth reading. HOW TO MAKE MONEY WITH WORDPRESS 5. Create YouTube Tutorials. The most popular way to monetize YouTube videos are ads, sponsorship, and dropping affiliate links in video descriptions. This is probably the most simple, fastest way to start making money with affiliate marketing, since if you make great videos, you will get viewerss. THE IDEAL SITEGROUND SG OPTIMIZER SETTINGS (2021 REVAMPED) Want to configure the ideal settings for SG Optimizer?. SG Optimizer’s settings now have nearly every feature as WP Rocket. Since SG Optimizer 5.6, they added heartbeat control, database cleanup, and prefetching external domains.Combined with the 5.0 update, SG Optimizer officially makes WP Rocket obsolete when using SiteGround.. A main benefit of SG Optimizer is that it usesserver-side
HOW TO BLOCK BAD BOTS IN WORDPRESS (WITH OR WITHOUT PLUGINS) Bad bots are a waste of server resources and can skew Google Analytics data. To block bad bots in WordPress, use Wordfence’s live traffic report to view spam bots hitting your server, then block them using Wordfence Blocking, the Blackhole For Bad Bots plugin, or CloudflareFirewall Rules.
HOW TO FIX A SLOW WEBSITE ON GODADDY'S WORDPRESS HOSTING Not saying hosting is everything, but it’s the #1 speed factor.. This is a simple Pingdom test to measure TTFB + load times of 16 WordPress hosts. I installed the same Astra Starter Site on 16 hosting accounts while measuring their load times for 1 week at 30 minute check intervals, as well as TTFB in various tools.No caching or CDN (with same plugins) were used since I’m strictly HOW TO REDUCE SERVER RESPONSE TIMES ON GODADDY (2021) How to improve GoDaddy's slow server response times. 1. Test Server Response Times. Run your site through Google PageSpeed Insights and check your server response times: As long as you’re hosted with GoDaddy, you’re not alone. Any $6.99/month AN HONEST REVIEW OF YOAST SEO PREMIUM (NOT WORTH $89/YEAR) 1. Keyword Optimization. Yoast SEO Premium allows you to set multiple focus keywords (up to 5) but there is a SPECIFIC STRATEGY for doing this. When you Google both keywords, the search results should be nearly identical (same search intent).To optimize for both, your primary keyword should usually be used as an exact match while your secondary keyword should be a partial match.Skip to content
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