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Using Cloudflare to Improve WebSite Speed to less than 90 secs

In the website load test of my site, I found that it loaded in 1.3secs. This was without using any cache plugin or CDN (content delivery network). I also used very less plugins to reduce the performance delay caused by them. I was able to achieve good desktop and mobile page speed field data according to PageSpeed Insights (PSI) tool. According to this document, Lighthouse provides a performance score. If you are able to get …

Case Study – Influence of WordPress Plugins on Website Speed

WordPress plugins are small snippets of code which can be installed for better functionality and productive purposes. There are more than 50,000 plugins to provide the necessary aesthetic, SEO and other features. To install them you can directly use the WordPress dashboard or download from the main WordPress.org website. There are pro and cons of using WordPress plugins. If they are not properly coded, it can cause security breach to your website. Also SQL injection …

PageSpeed Ninja vs SG Optimizer – Which is the Best WordPress Cache Plugin

Google had made it clear that page loading time is a key factor in ranking web pages. Organic traffic is dependent on SERP positions. So the higher you rank, the better will be your blog traffic. There are different ways to optimize wordpress website speed for better ranking to getting conversions, sales and sign-ups. The average page load times depend on various factors like number of JS, CSS, HTMl resources included in it. Read Related …

11 Best WordPress plugins for better Ranking of Blogs – Free Only (2019 Exclusive)

AMP for WP - Best Wordpress Plugin for AMP pages

With 172 million active website using Internet and other resources, the number of self-hosted WordPress users are also increasing day-by-day. According to a survey by NetCraft, 75 million blogs are using WordPress. This tells the potential of using a branded blogging platform. Google also respects the best practices of WordPress themes and plugins and ranks blogs highly on their search engine pages. Blogger platform, Joomla, Drupal, Radiant, Cushy kind of Content Management System (CMS) are …

Railgun and Auto-Minify in Cloudflare – Their Role in Web Page Load Speed (Case-Study)

The importance of web page loading speed can be seen in Google rankings. The holy grail of every web site and blog is to reduce the page load speed to below 3 secs. As you have seen in my other case-study, a 1 second delay in loading speed can take away millions of dollars or even billions. Bloggers who are using WordPress know the importance of web page optimization. If they can reduce the number …

How to Improve Web Page Speed – Test Conducted to See the Results (Case-Study)

Google has made it clear in 2010 itself, that page load time and website speed are important factors to rank high in SERPs. CSS Sprites, Caching, Image optimization, Web hosting play a major role in website load speed optimization. In June 2009, Amit Singhal and Matt Cutts, head of Google’s web spam team spoke about the results of an experiment conducted by Google. In this analysis, Google purposefully delayed the search results by half-a-second. This …

7 Best Practices to Make your WordPress Site Secure

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WordPress security breach is a cause of concern for many website owners. Security issues in 2016 could doom your business. Attacks by anonymous users and SQL Injection techniques can break up your site. E-business sites can have a dramatic loss of revenue and brand image, if proper best practices are not followed. For the past 8 years, WordPress security vulnerabilities did not cross my mind. Initially, my blogs had very less traffic and so not …

Top 10 Chrome Extensions to Block Ads in Browser – Different Types

Annoying ads are all over the place in this internet arena. Some may be useful and some not. Think of ads as just one place to promote the advertiser’s products. But the real content gets hidden in this sea of ad-blind web pages. What you should do? Whether its Internet Explorer, Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox (the three major browsers), you need to adopt a strategy to remove unwanted ads. Ad-blocker for Gmail™ Number of Reviews …

Google Adsense Chrome Extension – Easy View of CTR, CPC, RPM !!

Online money making using Google Adsense is not that easy. Quick Adsense is an easy configurable Chrome Extension used to check Google Adsense Earnings. Though CPC rates by advertisers have increased time to time, publishers are less benefited. More income goes to Google’s pockets. Still Adsense is a popular network among bloggers of thinking big. Chrome is just another browser which looks simple, but has plethora of options in the form of extensions and bookmarks. …

[Solution] WordPress Admin Panel very slow after Updates (Case-study)

Recently I updated many of my sites to WordPress 3.9.1. To my astonishment, the edits, saves, deletes in WordPress Admin Panel were very slow. Initially I thought that my Internet connection must be slow. So I checked some other sites like yahoo.co.in which I visit frequently. They were fast. Since I was using shared hosting on HostGator, I thought there was some server problem. So I contacted my HostGator support. I used both email and …