website performance
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Stop Using Google Fonts – Here’s Why
Google Fonts. The go-to option for anyone who’s ever built a website and thought, “I want it to look nice, but I can’t be arsed to pay for fonts.” And fair enough—it’s free, easy to use, and makes you feel like a proper web designer when slapping some fancy typography onto your site. But here’s…
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Do You Really Need a CDN for Your Website?
Left to get away with every sales pitch, every website would have every trick in the book thrown at it to squeeze out an extra tenth of a second of performance by every website developer but do all websites need to use a CDN (Content Delivery Network)? The honest answer is “not necessarily” and very…
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Reality Check – The Perfect Website Doesn’t Exist
Ok, first off, I need to say; “there is no such thing as a perfect website”. No matter how hard you try and no matter how skilled your website developer is, you cannot build the perfect website. You may get close. Sort of. But not for long. You see, the web is constantly changing. The…
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The Catch 22 of Website Load Speed
It’s a never-ending challenge trying to get your website to load as fast as possible – ideally in under two seconds. That’s what Google expects now with its ‘mobile first’ approach, and it’s not so much a suggestion as a demand. And to be fair, it makes sense. Look at your analytics – most visitors…
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Time for a Quick Website Optimisation Recap
This is one subject that keeps making noise and that means I can’t shut up about it either because there’s an ongoing dialogue, it seems, practically everywhere in the land of development and website speed freaks. To start this recap, let’s have a reminder of why optimising your website matters so much: As well as…
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What’s the Deal With Jpeg 2000
I’m all for speed and things getting better, as long as getting better means easy for everyone to achieve the same objective without calling in a rocket scientist! Oh, Quick Update – Ignore this lot and just use WebP But what on earth is the deal with website speed freaks suggesting we should adopt a…
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Which WordPress Cache – Or None at all
If there’s one thing the Internet is good for it’s reviews – some of them are actually honest. A million writeups for every subject under the sun but, when you want to know what the best (in your chosen subject) is, a popularity contest or a ‘made for ads’ summary page (without any actual opinion)…