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in a Few ClicksUnderstanding how to correctly identify the size of your images and how to resize them is fundamental to boost the performance of your website.
A fast and optimized web page always contains images which have been previously resized and compressed.
What you need to know about Lazy loading, the technique that differentiates the loading of images, boosts your website’s loading time.
Last update on June 16, 2021Tips and tricks on compressing your images with free online tools. Here is a selection of 5 tools to obtain the best optimization without giving up on image quality.
Last update on February 12, 2020When it comes to caching, there are a lot of different types. There’s browser caching and page caching, not to mention mobile and user caching. If you’re using WP Rocket, you are no doubt already benefiting from these types of caching. But another one you’ll want to add to the mix is object caching. Object […]
Last update on September 12, 2019This is a guest post. Opinions and recommendations are the author’s own and not necessarily those of WP Rocket. What if I said you could double your WordPress site’s page speed in just 10 minutes? Sounds amazing, right? Well, you can—all you need to do is upgrade to the latest version of PHP. And soon, […]
Last update on August 19, 2019A question the folks at WP Rocket are often asked is: “Should I use Cloudflare?” It’s not at all surprising—WP Rocket offers Cloudflare integration to help the CDN’s users quickly connect their WordPress sites. If you’ve never used Cloudflare before, you might be wondering if it’s something special due to this add-on and if it’s […]
Last update on March 20, 2020Last Update: August 2019 I recently got an email from Google informing me that mobile-first indexing had been enabled for my website. After initially panicking (“Gah! My traffic is going to drop!”), it prompted me to do three things: Open my site on my iPhone to double-check everything was loading fine (it was); Check Google […]
Last update on June 24, 2021Optimized the website front-end and it’s still loading slowly? It’s time to look at your time to first byte (TTFB). Learn what is it and how to optimize it.
Last update on May 19, 2021Maybe you’re choosing a new web host or simply curious about what’s “normal.” Whatever the reason, understanding disk space and how much you need for your WordPress website is an important consideration when choosing a hosting package or anticipating how much space you might need in future. In this post, we’ll explore how much space […]
Last update on September 11, 2019Learn all about how GZIP compression works, how to check if it’s enabled on your WordPress site, and how to switch it on if it’s not in this in-depth guide.
Last update on April 14, 2021How do you measure website performance? There’s a lot of information online about how to optimize websites, but how do you really know when you’ve done enough? To help developers measure their optimization efforts—and to remind them to put users in the middle of the performance story—a couple of Googlers have developed the RAIL model. […]
Last update on June 24, 2021Animated GIFs, more than any other digital file format, have captured the hearts and minds of online users. But man, they’re so damn hard to optimize!I once spent an hour trying to tweak the quality, frame rate, and length of a GIF, ultimately giving up because I couldn’t get the file below 2 MB without […]
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