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Google’s AMP and what it means for WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

October 8, 2015

AMP stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages. It's an open source spec created by Google and collaborated on by a number of other mega companies, in response to Facebook's "Instant Articles" feature. The tl;dr on AMP is that it's a not…

Responsive images look likely for WordPress 4.4

Brian Krogsgard

October 2, 2015

An official merge proposal was created for the responsive images plugin, and during the weekly Core dev chat a lively discussion took place discussing its merits and the variety of issues with enabling responsive images in WordPress. The candidate plugin…

whitelist_html is Ryan McCue and Human…

Brian Krogsgard

September 30, 2015

whitelist_html is Ryan McCue and Human Made's way to allow some HTML when sanitizing strings, but not all, while also preventing the performance hit of WordPress's kses functions.

Review Signal has released the performance…

Brian Krogsgard

September 23, 2015

Review Signal has released the performance benchmark tool they use for testing hosts. It's a great way to measure your own setup.

Speed as a feature

Brian Krogsgard

August 19, 2015

Performance optimization can be a hard sell inside an organization that has a lot of needs and not a lot of resources. GQ recently has page loads upwards of 7 seconds and bounce rates 10-20% higher on mobile than desktop,…

Two performance boosts for font loading with Typekit

Brian Krogsgard

August 7, 2015

Two Typekit performance boosts are worth noting. I know a lot of theme shops include Typekit in their themes, and it's also one of the most popular ways to use custom fonts on custom client work. If you use Typekit…

WordPress hosting performance benchmarks, 2015

Brian Krogsgard

July 29, 2015

Hosting

Kevin Ohashi has this year's WordPress hosting performance benchmarks review up on Review Signal, and it's another great analysis. He reviewed 19 hosts and for some of them testing multiple configurations. He covers the biggest players and some I had…

Web pages are now 2MB on average, and it’s largely because of images

Brian Krogsgard

June 11, 2015

Business

The steady climb in average website sizes isn't stopping. And according to Tammy Everts, more than 60% of page weight today is due to images. As internet users, we crave images — the bigger, the better. Site owners play to…

Sucuri want to compete with CloudFlare

Brian Krogsgard

May 28, 2015

Security

Sucuri is seeking to build a full CloudFlare alternative, according to WP Tavern: “The fundamental difference is that it’s security first, performance second,” Perez said. “So yes, in the coming months you’ll see more as our solution blossoms into a…

Critical rendering path and front end performance notes

Brian Krogsgard

May 21, 2015

There is no fold, unless you're talking about the critical rendering path, of course. For a primer on critical rendering paths, Patrick Sexton has a good introduction: Let's look at the path that this page takes before it gets displayed....…

How to create better, more accessible WordPress themes

Sami Keijonen

May 7, 2015

DesignDevelopment

Accessibility is an important part of modern web development. It is our responsibility as creators of WordPress themes to make them accessible to all users, on any device. In this article, I'll offer some simple tips to create better, more accessible WordPress themes.

Weekend reads

Brian Krogsgard

April 10, 2015

Here are some articles I liked this week, but didn't do a complete Note for: Improving font performance with subsetting and local storage: font tips I haven't seen before on Sitepoint. BenchPress: count me in, Brad! The fundamentals of clean…

Chrome 41 making a big step for faster page speeds

Brian Krogsgard

March 18, 2015

From the Chromium blog, one of the more impressive performance improvements I've seen yet: Ideally every part of a user's interaction with a browser is fast, starting with loading web pages. Chrome is introducing two techniques called script streaming and…

Performance management and tooling

Brian Krogsgard

March 16, 2015

I ran across two good resources for performance today, thanks to Chris Coyier, who has been on a performance tear of late. Perf-tooling.today is a website with all sorts of performance resources linked. Seriously, there are a ton of them.…

How the new Wired is wired

Brian Krogsgard

March 2, 2015

Wired has been around a long, long time. They just launched a major redesign and build of the website. Wired was already on WordPress, but they made major structural changes over the last couple of years and today's launch is…

A(nother) new era of WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

February 27, 2015

Jeff Waugh is a prominent advocate worldwide of the open source ecosystem. In his latest article, he talks about the continued evolution of WordPress in a "new era", which is mostly stuff my audience should know about. But it's good…

Google’s AMP and what it means for WordPress

Responsive images look likely for WordPress 4.4

whitelist_html is Ryan McCue and Human…

Review Signal has released the performance…

Speed as a feature

Two performance boosts for font loading with Typekit

WordPress hosting performance benchmarks, 2015

Web pages are now 2MB on average, and it’s largely because of images

Sucuri want to compete with CloudFlare

Critical rendering path and front end performance notes

How to create better, more accessible WordPress themes

Weekend reads

Chrome 41 making a big step for faster page speeds

Performance management and tooling

How the new Wired is wired

A(nother) new era of WordPress

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