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What a WordPress CDN really costs

My WordPress Website gets just under 30,000 visits per month (according to Google Analytics). It doesn’t have much media with very little video and few images (all images have been reduced in filesize with lossless compression). So why use a content delivery network (CDN)? Well, I have an absolute obsession with good quality SEO including Website [...]

5 Ways to load WordPress images FASTER

Google advertising revenue and traffic reduced by 20% with a 0.5 second slower Page load time. Amazon.com found that every 100ms increase in load time of amazon.com decreased sales by 1% (King, Andrew B.). If time is money then it’s time to improve your Website Page load speed. There are numerous means of speeding up [...]

5 Tools and Ways to Improve Page Load Speed

Webpage load speed is becoming more important for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) purposes. Google (and other Search Engines?) use the time it takes for a Website page to load as part of its ranking algorithm; faster is better! Fortunately there are some great free tools and methods that help to make your Website faster. Here [...]

SEO – The Need for Speed

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is an art and science combined. SEO basics are well publicised such as the importance of linking, the use of relevant keywords in text and publishing of fresh content. Unfortunately what we know about SEO best practice is a small proportion of what the search engines use to determine the important [...]