How to use Lazy Loading to Slash Page Load Time
There are lots of ways to improve your site’s performance. Serving your static assets from a CDN, using GZip or Brotli compression, and concatenating your …
Highlights from the PerfMatters 2018 Web Performance Conference
Just a few weeks ago I was lucky enough to attend the PerfMatters conference, up in San Francisco, CA. It was a site speed enthusiast’s …
Page Size and SEO – Are they related?
It has long been accepted that page speed and SEO go hand in hand, but I ran an experiment last month that shows strong evidence that …
Ultimate Guide to Browser Hints: Preload, Prefetch, and Preconnect
Did you know there’s a simple way to speed up your website without a ton of effort? Today we will explore resource hints and directives, …
Average Page Load Times for 2018 – How does yours compare?
UPDATE – We made a newer version of this for 2020: Average Page Load Times for 2020 With 2018 just around the corner it’s time …
Intro to CDNs (Content Delivery Networks) & How They Speed Up Your Site
A website is only as good as its speed. Unfortunately, determining the exact cause of your website’s speed deficiency can be an arduously meticulous task …
Speeding up a Shopify site – Step by step optimizations
Here’s a step-by-step case study on how we optimized a Shopify ecommerce site with a 24% improvement in page speed, through the use of MachMetrics …
Marketing Website Speeds Up 2x With Caching
Last month we noticed another site that was worthy of our Speedup Hall of Fame. Check out this marketing website that took its average load …
How to Improve Speed & Performance for Your Website: The 10 Low-Hanging Fruits
Many people are overwhelmed with the advice that automated speed checkers such as Google Pagespeed Insights provides, and they give up. But the good news …
Fitness Website Cuts Load Time in Half
This week we’d like to showcase an impressive example of a fitness website running WordPress that optimized its load time from 12 seconds down to …