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Your Guide to Image Speed Optimization On Mobile
Have you been told you need to optimize your images for
Why would anyone want to use a plugin to add a signature to the bottom of a post? It's marketing
"Hero image" is a term used in web design for a specific type of web banner. A hero image is
That's right. Wordpress undoes your manual image optimization efforts. We use an offline image processor like Gimp or Photoshop for
Can studying Google Analytics web statistics influence design color choices? More ways than you might think. But first you have
Live support is a web service for communicating with text in real time with web visitors. Third-party live-support applications are
Facebook discussions go on and on about various “automatic” ways to optimize graphics. They assume oversized graphics are the only
Website owners often think they're the clone of their audience. Of course, they aren't. We're all different and have different
Online speed tests like WebPagetest.org or Pingdom.com may recommend optimizing images.This can be a lot of work and often make
PagePipe ComboPack includes:
issue #1 - Contact.Me - Contact Form 7 plugin alternatives. CONTACT.ME details
issue #2 - Fly.Me - Hummingbird plugin
Few people care about speed as much as we do.
Susty is the lightest stripped-down WordPress theme we've ever seen. It's
We hated it when Yahoo sold Smush to these marketing guys: WPMU DEV (Owned by Incsub of Australia).
They added a
Genericons are vector icons embedded in a webfont designed for aesthetics and signage. But what if you don't use them.
Thumbnails are a scaled-down or cropped representation of larger pictures. They help in recognizing and organizing images. Thumbnails are used
Astra is a popular WordPress theme. Usually, we'd tell you to run from anything claiming popularity - and never follow
Many speed test recommend using webP format for images instead of JPEG or GIF or PNG formats. Why? Where did
Sometimes when we're tuning speed on client websites, we strike gold. There's a horrible problem with an easy fix. The
When you optimize images on a website, how do you check how good is good enough? Is it speed performance
More than half the top 1 million websites use Google Fonts. This is not the best practice for mobile speed.
The
We always want what we can’t have. Turns out, scarcity makes people perceive limited quantities as more precious and valuable.
By default, WordPress always compressed images upon upload. In version 4.5, WordPress changed JPEG compression from 90Q to 82Q. This
Use tandem plugins for some image speed trickery. The plugins are Hide Featured Image (7.6k download) and Default Featured Image
WordPress themes often come with two icon fonts employed. Genericons is an open-source icon font to replace image icons. Genericons
“Elegance is refusal”.
~ Coco Chanel
Coco Chanel (1883 - 1971) was a prolific and successful fashion creator. Chanel extended her influence
We've done library sections on websites before. They are popular (meaning they are visited from search engines). But success is
Do you have a recommended dimension pixel size and actual file size for blog post images?
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Since WordPress core version 5.4 release date: March 31st, 2020, there's a odd image file lurking on your site.
wp-includes/images/w-logo-blue-white-bg.png
[caption id="attachment_63496"
Twenty-seventeen is an unusual default WordPress theme. It allows background video in the header section. Here we share ideas to
To be read in modern browsers, HTML/CSS files must be UTF-8 – an encoding scheme developed in 1992. WordPress uses
Favicons (or site icons) are a recognizable element used by web browsers. It's good for memorability and branding. Favicons are
There are times when date stamping your website or it's content can be good - or bad. Say, you wrote
Is website font decoration more important than speed performance? Is the typography on your site the easiest way for users
Image rotation is our plugin invention for improved speed and reduction of workload. This scheme is helpful - not only
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When you're working hard to optimize a website, you learn that image file size is an important detail for speed.
Astra team integrated Schema.org code into their theme.
Schema’s not a good thing - or a bad thing. Unless you curate
Without scarcity, no one would ever pay for anything. There would be an infinite supply of everything, no one could
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