Site Speed archives

When users visit your pages, their browsers download all of the resources needed to display the page – the images, CSS, JavaScript and fonts, and so on. They all use bandwidth, and take time to transfer. But with the right configuration, you can tell those browsers that they can save and re-use those files. Then, …

Two words you often hear together are mobile and site speed. And that’s not without reason because these two go hand in hand. Mobile-friendliness and site speed are some of the most pressing matters we have to deal with. Measuring page speed has always been something of a dark art. The site speed tools we …

We all want to increase our sales, lift engagement, and get the best possible result out of our website. Wouldn’t it be great to have a quick and easy list of things you can do right now to improve your SEO? This five-step rocket of SEO quick wins will help you kick-start your website! Here …

Site speed is one of the factors which determines whether you get a good ranking in Google. Site speed is a ranking factor, and its importance keeps growing. In this blog post, I’ll discuss how to improve your site speed and which tools can help you measure your site’s speed. But first, I’ll answer the …

Everything is happening online, now that the situation with COVID-19 has everyone staying at home as much as possible. You’re not going to events, you’re not sitting down with customers. So, your online presence is more important than ever. Your website is your business card. And you want it to be found! But many people …

A question that often pops up for sites that are chasing “hot topics” is: how to get Google to crawl our site faster? This could be either because you have a big site and want to see changes faster or because you’re optimizing a news site. There are a few things you can do to …

WordPress is huge. According to the latest stats, WordPress powers almost 35% of the web — and keeps on growing. With many sites staying true to the CMS and many new sites bursting onto the scene, there are a lot of new users taking their first steps into the wonderful world of WordPress. People from …

A content delivery network (CDN) is a network of servers in different geographic locations working together to get content to load faster by serving it from a location near the visitor. Here, I’ll explain what this all means and what a CDN can do for you and your SEO. What does a CDN do? A …

HTTP/2 is a newish protocol for transporting data that will drastically speed up the web and can help your SEO. The ‘old’ HTTP1.1 protocol only allows web servers to send files down a single line one at a time, and that line has to open and close after each file has been sent – a …

This is the third and final part in our series on how to do an SEO audit on your website. Regularly auditing your site – or your clients’ sites – is a great way to get a feel for what you can do to improve its SEO. In part 1, I talked about user experience and …