WordPress powers a massive chunk of the web—around 43% of all websites as of early 2026, depending on whose stats

When you're working hard to optimize a website, you learn that image file size is an important detail for speed.

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Selective activation of plugins is a favorite strategy for speeding up WordPress websites. Now you can use plugin skills to

PagePipe saw a drop in 2022 sales. The reasons vary.



Everyone did a lot of speed repair and web construction during

Where is "above-the-fold" on a phone or desktop? Repairing render-blocking is wasteful ivory-tower foolishness. Not a real-world problem. But the

"A single YouTube embed can load up to 400KB of data before you even hit the play button."
Is a 2-second

Choosing a plugin would be easier if WordPress permitted a little more repository information. Author-generated advice is untrustworthy because it's

Some sites we evaluate for speed testing are using free Cloudflare CDN services. A CDN (content distribution network) is a

More than half the top 1 million websites use Google Fonts. This is not the best practice for mobile speed.
The

Do you pride yourself on not being a sheep or blindly following the herd?
Have you watched hours and hours of