John Blackbourn released Query Monitor 3.7…
Dan Knauss
John Blackbourn released Query Monitor 3.7 which includes features related to viewing information about debugging and the performance of REST API requests. ✨
Post Status Excerpt (No. 9) — Recommended Reading for WordPress Professionals and How We Update
David Bisset
Cory and David discuss three books WordPress professionals should read as well as the way they make updates to WordPress.
Addy Osmani, an engineering manager working…
Dan Knauss
Addy Osmani, an engineering manager working on Google Chrome, discusses how you can use HTML image tags to improve Core Web Vitals. There is a ton of information and reading here — perfect if performance is your passion. 💨 Addy…
On the morning of April 19th…
Dan Knauss
On the morning of April 19th (Monday) Automattic released a new plugin called Jetpack Boost on the WordPress.org repo. The plugin is focused on performance and SEO issues users might have with their sites. 🚀 Boost has three "performance modules:"…
Matt Danner announced this week that…
Dan Knauss
Matt Danner announced this week that iThemes has acquired Kadence WP and the team behind Kadence Blocks, a page-builder style block package. The acquisition also includes Kadence Theme, a WordPress theme "built for performance and easy development." 💨 Matt admits…
📱Google’s AMP — Accelerate Mobile Pages…
Dan Knauss
📱Google's AMP — Accelerate Mobile Pages — has preoccupied web developers and their discussions for years. This controversial technology might be fading away now, ever so slightly. Search Engine Land noted that AMP won’t be required for articles to show…
Milica Mihajlija takes on CSS performance…
Dan Knauss
Milica Mihajlija takes on CSS performance and says the most straightforward approach is to keep it small. Compressing files can significantly improve speed, but removing unused code can too. Other methods include using efficient CSS animations and avoiding invisible text…
Anne McCarty, a member of the…
Dan Knauss
Anne McCarty, a member of the Developer Relations team at Automattic, explains how performance is measured and prioritized in each Gutenberg plugin release: “With each release… a performance benchmark is run against the last few releases that compares different response…
🔌 A few plugins appeared on…
Dan Knauss
🔌 A few plugins appeared on my radar this week, and if you weren't aware of their existence either, they're worth a look: Content embedded from external sites such as YouTube or Twitter is loaded immediately when visitors access your…
The Gutenberg 10.1 release is out…
Dan Knauss
The Gutenberg 10.1 release is out with visual enhancements for reusable blocks, improvements to Full Site Editing, widget and navigation screens, and global styles. ✨ Anne McCarthy has an overview of the current core editor improvements that impact front-end performance…
Ashley Rich explains the differences between…
Dan Knauss
Ashley Rich explains the differences between Varnish and Nginx FastCGI cache: "When it comes to comparing Varnish vs Nginx FastCGI Cache, Nginx is the clear winner in outright high performance but performance isn't the only consideration." Brad Touesnard notes on…
💨 If you are looking for…
Dan Knauss
💨 If you are looking for a positive Gutenberg experience, then check out this blog post. In it, Valentina Orlandi explains why WP Rocket chose Gutenberg and how the performance of their site improved. "We asked the agency in charge…
Jamie Indigo has written a technical…
Dan Knauss
Jamie Indigo has written a technical SEO guide to Lighthouse performance metrics. Jamie offers some instructions for testing your performance and understanding the metrics behind Lighthouse's Performance score.
Executive Code When President Joe Biden…
Dan Knauss
Executive Code When President Joe Biden took office this week, the official White House website was completely replaced — and it's still using WordPress. Of course, this sparked a public conversation (and also some private ones) about the theme and…
Kyle Van Deusen measures how much…
Dan Knauss
Kyle Van Deusen measures how much faster Gutenberg and the WordPress editor (and also Oxygen) are than the Elementor page builder. However, performance might not matter as much as you might expect: "While I do have the ability to preview…
Hashim Warren, Senior Product Marketing Manager…
Dan Knauss
Hashim Warren, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Gatsby, thinks SEO will drive serverless website adoption in 2021: "Marketers will discover that you have two options: pay a lot monthly and spend a lot of time speeding up your WordPress or…
