Here’s another little tidbit I picked up from WordCamp. This is comes to you from Matt Cutts. (For credentials, Matt has a Ph.D., has been with Google since 2009 and is currently head of Google’s Webspam team. So, I trust this tip.) Granted, this is not a huge thing, but still every little bit helps. [...]
With the Firebug add-on YSlow, one of the components that gets rated is something called Compress components with gzip. When you run YSlow to optimize your website or blog, you may be getting dinged on that component. Here is how to improve your site’s speed a bit – with two huge caveats:
You web server [...]
With the Firebug add-on YSlow, one of the components that gets rated is something called Entity Tags or ETags. When you run YSlow to optimize your website or blog, you may be getting dinged on that component. Then you click on the “read more” link to learn how to fix the issue. But when you [...]
Brandon and I just got back from WordCamp in San Francisco. Boy howdy did we learn a lot of great tips and tricks for WordPress (and met a lot of great new people!). One of the speakers I saw was Steve Souders, an originator of something called YSlow. So, here’s the first tip I’ll clue [...]
This might seem a bit odd, but I’m going to write a plug here for an amazing WordPress related eBook. I happened to be doing some research around the net for some of our upcomping screencasts and tutorials when I happened upon this very reasonably priced eBook. Given that it is co-authored by the [...]
