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In February of 2025 I did a post about why you should use WebP for your website images. I think AVIF has its place, but WebP still has the widest feature set for the filesize. One of the problems with that is that most cameras provide images in JPG, or a lossless format that isn’t […]

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Something that can significantly slow down your site speed is an overloaded server. If your site is overloaded because it is doing legitimate work (serving pages to real users) then you need to increase your system resources. That said, if it’s being overwhelmed by attack attempts, your site performance can drop significantly, even if there […]

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The definition of the noun “cache” is “a secure place of storage”. In web development, keeping copies of data in secure places for future use can make the web a much faster place. While this post is written in the context of WordPress, but it really applies to nearly every web stack. Within WordPress it’s […]

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The word “transient” is defined as “lasting only for a short time”. WordPress uses the term to describe bits of data that are stored in cache for a short time. Before I show you how this happens let’s talk about why you would want to do this. Why micro cache? When writing code, there are […]

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As a seasoned developer, I can’t tell you how many times a new client has come to me and said, “My site is really slow—I think I have too many WordPress plugins,” or “I had a developer look at my site, and they said I have too many plugins. Can you delete some and see […]

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Most of the image types you’re probably familiar with on the web are JPG, PNG, GIF, and WebP. These image types are called “bitmapped” images, because every single pixel is assigned a color. This means when you zoom in, or make an image larger, those pixels simply get larger. 

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Content encoding makes every file on your entire site load faster. Does your server have it turned on?

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WebP images look better, load faster, have more features, and can save you in hosting costs.

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