Over 2 months ago I wrote about big changes coming to GTmetrix off the back of their own announcement that it was coming later that month, which was back in September. But it’s finally here! Yesterday GTmetrix announced on their own blog all the changes that they’d previously announced, so not too much of a surprise, other…
Tag: performance
Big changes coming to GTmetrix
If you’ve ever done any performance optimisation on your website, you’ll almost certainly have come across GTmetrix, how could you not? The site was originally created as a tool for their own hosted customers to check the speed of their websites and improve them, but over the years it has become a go-to resource for so many…
Time To First Byte – part 2
I often do performance optimisation on WordPress sites for clients, and have recently completed such a project. One really critical metric I explored is Time To First Byte (TTFB). But it can be hard to really drill down into it. In my last post I spoke specifically about how to use the Server-Timing response header…
Time To First Byte
I’ve been doing some performance optimisation on a WordPress site recently (something I often do for clients) and was once again asked why I was suggesting a move to a different webhost – am I just trying to earn commission? Well, in short, no. Your webhost is actually a really big factor in the overall…
Cloudflare full page caching – part 3
In part one I discussed the benefits of using Cloudflare to cache our generated HTML and in part two we set the Cloudflare Worker and got it working. However, I’ve found that there’s one particular tweak to the example Worker which helps things run a little smoother for some setups. I’ve talked before about WordPress cron jobs,…
Cloudflare full page caching – part 2
In part one I discussed the benefits of using Cloudflare to cache our generated HTML in it’s network of 194+ edge nodes, in order to get maximum speed and reduce load on our origin server. So let’s go ahead and do it now. I’m assuming that you’ve already got a Cloudflare account and it’s in use…