A little over a year ago I wrote a post about testing your website with sonarwhal, a new tool I’d heard about for testing you website for security, performance and accessibility issues. I then followed that up with a post about sonarwhal via the command line. I did promise to go through and fix all the issues…
Tag: performance
Better Speed – a new WordPress plugin
Just 3 days ago I announced a new WordPress plugin; Better Detection. And now here I am, announcing a second one; Better Speed. Better Speed Improve the loading speed of your website by removing bloat and unused features. This plugin will allow you to easily remove bloat and turn off unused features, in order to streamline your…
WordPress Cron jobs solved
WordPress has an interesting mechanism referred to as “cron”, but it’s not cron as you may know it, if you’re of a more technical leaning. There are a number of background tasks that need to run in order to keep a WordPress site ticking along nicely. For example, scheduled posts. Ever wondered how these actually…
Server push with Cloudflare
A few days ago I posted about server push and SRI and the fact that they’re currently not compatible. In this post, I gave a brief synopsis of server push, which I’ll repeat… HTTP/2 is pretty clever, for example allowing one TCP connection to be utilised by multiple concurrent downloads, which means there’s less delay waiting…
Pre-fetching links to improve performance
I was stumbling around the web the other day when I came across Addy Osmani’s website (he’s an Engineering Manager at Google working on Chrome) and I was looking at the open source projects he’s worked on. One in particular stood out for me; Quicklink. The idea is pretty simple, but also very elegant. This library waits…
Sonarwhal via the command line
I recently posted about Testing your website with sonarwhal, a great dynamic analysis tool that you can simply enter your website address into, and they’ll scan and return a report. What I failed to mention (shame on me) is that you can also run this tool via the command line. That’s right, they’re on npm as sonarwhal too. Install It’s…