by Meeky Hwang | Development, Performance, Plugin
A good content management system (CMS) does many things out of the box, but harnessing its full power requires add-on software. WordPress calls these additional units plugins. Magento calls them extensions. In Drupal they’re modules. In each case, they work with...
by Matt Dorman | Development, Performance
Getting your website to load as quickly as possible is a priority for any webmaster. Studies have shown that if your website fails to load within a couple of seconds, people are likely to leave. You don’t want to miss out on visitors simply because your website...
by Matt Dorman | Development, Performance, Technology
HTTP is the protocol on which the Web is built. It’s the way that browsers send requests to a server and get back content. CERN and Tim Berners-Lee created it in 1989, when the Internet carried pages that were very different from today’s Web. A page was...
by ndevr | Development, Performance
WordPress’s flexibility comes at some cost in efficiency. Every page of a WordPress site is a PHP page, which means it’s generated on the fly. As a result, the browser can’t cache it, since it might be different each time. In reality, most pages...
by ndevr | Development, Performance, WordCamp
We’re looking forward to Saturday’s WordCamp Salt Lake City (September 10), and speaking on Tools to Monitor and Improve Your Website. This is our first time at WordCamp SLC, but Matt has stories of his Spring Break there wayyyy back in college. If...
by ndevr | Development, Performance
We’re looking forward to next week’s Develop Denver (August 4 & 5), and speaking on Performance Tools. This is our first time at Develop Denver, but the line up of sessions looks pretty amazing this year. If you’re not familiar with Develop...
