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You are probably familiar with the following story: you spend a lot of time reading about how to speed up your WordPress blog, and install tools and free plugins to do so. Then you (or your client) make a seemingly small change to one of your pages, and your page speed suddenly falls off a cliff. If you are serious about improving your website speed , you should be checking your speed regularly, in which case you can spot this problem pretty quickly. However, it would still be nice if there was an automated way of checking your WordPress site speed every time you make a change. Thankfully, there is a solution. That solution is to configure Google Lighthouse to perform speed audits on demand for your WordPress site. Setting this up can be a little long-winded, but is also not that complicated for the advanced user. In this article, we’ll explain why and how you should set up Lighthouse CI for your WordPress site. An Intro to WordPress Speed Testing First let’s take a closer … [Read more...] about How to Use Google Lighthouse Audits to Improve Speed

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Tons of articles written as the one guide to performance on WordPress, tons of content dedicated to the subject at hand but, what about the tools we use for measurement? The online and software tools we use are a big part of the equation. A wrong tool or improper results can lead you astray. Today we are going to do the exact opposite, today we are going to benchmark the benchmarks and see if we can come up with a better idea of what’s good, what’s acceptable and what should be definitely avoided when trying to analyze our sites in our need for speed. The stars of the night are going to be: GTMetrix, KeyCDN Speed Test, Pingdom Tools, Google Pagespeed Insights, Webpagetest and Monitis Speed Tools . we will talk about the strong and week points on each and then offer you the results. For Techno Geeks For this article we are going to use a website and a service we are sure it’s suited for optimum performance. The site will be a digital gaming magazine, highly optimized, with … [Read more...] about WordPress Performance Testing: Why, How & Which Tools to Use

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As a content curator, one of the biggest and most embarrassing) mistakes I made in 2014 is to repeat the known mistakes when it came WordPress and blogging in general. Every New Year calls for new resolutions. Some (try to) lose weight – “I’m going to weigh 130 pounds by the end of this year”, some make adventurous plans – “I’m definitely going skydiving in March”, while some decide to finally tie the knot – “It’s time we eternalized it”! Not that we’re a month into this year, let us all add a resolution to the list – “WordPress mistakes never to repeat in 2015 (or the years to come)”. I’ve been contributing to WPExplorer for over a year now and I’d like to kick off this year with a brand new post series which deals with the most common WordPress mistakes. We start by looking at 5 crucial factors that deal with launching a WordPress site and move on to recommendations that will bear fruit in the long run. These well-known points can be easily classified under “been there, done … [Read more...] about 25+ Common WordPress Mistakes to Avoid

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Regardless of the size of your business or operation engaging in content marketing is a must. However, if you’re running a small business or are out there on your own, it’s probably fair to say you have fewer resources to invest in promoting your services and products than a large scale enterprise. Even so, that doesn’t mean that without the right strategy you can’t get great results so we’ve put together our list of content marketing tips. In simple terms, content marketing involves producing high-quality content which is then promoted in order to bring more targeted traffic to your website. By improving your content marketing efforts your site will receive more visitors, you’ll increase lead generation. This can ultimately your business to make more sales. There are many different ways to implement or improve your content marketing strategy. Luckily, if you have a WordPress website then there are some powerful WordPress plugins that you can use to help. Whatever your experience … [Read more...] about Content Marketing Tips for Small Businesses Using WordPress

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When you’re in idea generation mode before actually sitting down and working on a new site, it’s easy to get a bit lost. After all, you’re faced with a million different possibilities and all of them look awesome. It’s tempting to throw everything and the kitchen sink into a site just because you can . And while there’s nothing wrong with that on your own locally-hosted site for running tests, it’s probably not a good approach for client sites. If I’ve learned anything about web usability, it’s that less is definitely more. And if you want to keep visitors on your site, you need to think about the end-user’s experience from the very beginning. That means back when you’re coming up with the site’s concept and basic layout. The user experience is something that directly impacts how visitors interact with your site and largely determines whether or not they will stick around long enough to convert. Here are a few ways you can ensure your focus stays on the user experience during the … [Read more...] about How to Make Your WordPress Sites More User-Friendly

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