by Matt Dorman | Performance
Google has rolled out the June/ July 2021 algorithm updates, and you can expect changes in the way the giant search engine sorts and displays search results. Every time the world’s largest search engine company announces algorithm updates, shockwaves run through...
by Matt Dorman | Development, Performance
Your ecommerce website’s loading and rendering speed affects everything from your store’s rankings in search engines to the user’s final checkout conversion. And with the COVID-19 pandemic forcing more shoppers online, analysts predict that this...
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...