Tag: performance
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Self-Hosted vs. Managed Platforms: Which One Wins for WordPress?
Your site has momentum. Traffic’s climbing, marketing is pushing harder, and the stakes are higher than they were when you launched on an inexpensive shared plan. Lately, though, the site feels slower, incidents take too long to recover from, and precious time is being pulled into “just keeping the lights on.” When you’re at this…
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How to Make a Mobile-Friendly WordPress Website That Converts
Mobile traffic isn’t “growing.” It already won. A recent analysis by Semrush found that, among their top 100 sites with the most visits, mobile traffic surpassed desktop traffic by 313%. The result of your mobile site not being up to par? Higher bounce rates, frustrated prospects, and lower return on every marketing dollar you spend…
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Upcoming PHP Changes at Pagely: 8.4 Rollout, 8.1 End-of-Life, New Zend Pricing
A year goes by fast in PHP land. Security timelines shift, WordPress keeps iterating, and suddenly that comfortable version you deployed on is the one holding things up. Here is how we’ll be handling the next wave of PHP transitions and, more importantly, what it means for development schedules, budget planning, and site performance.
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Speed Benchmarks Every WordPress Site Owner Should Run
When your website’s homepage takes more than a few seconds to load, the impact can be significant. From an SEO perspective, search engines prioritize faster sites, meaning a sluggish homepage can make it harder for people to discover you. Beyond visibility, slow performance can hurt your brand’s image with visitors often perceiving a laggy site…
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Signs Your WordPress Site Has Outgrown Shared Hosting and Why Managed Hosting Pays Off
You launched on budget hosting, set up a theme, and watched orders or leads start rolling in. Terrific. But six months later your once-snappy pages crawl during campaigns, uptime reports look like an EKG, and the marketing team is afraid to run paid traffic. That tension is the first hint that shared hosting (where hundreds…
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What Is WordPress? Exploring Features and Benefits
WordPress powers more than 43% of the websites online today, and that share keeps climbing. But market share alone isn’t a reason to bet your business on a platform. You want real advantages you can translate into lower costs, faster campaigns, and measurable growth. Let’s lay out what WordPress is, what it can do out-of-the-box,…
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How to Fix WordPress Formatting Issues Effectively
Dealing with a messy layout is a real headache for designers, hurts conversion rates, makes people lose trust, and drowns support teams. For the last ten years, teams have consistently kicked the can down the road on formatting issues until they hit critical landing pages, then they just slap on quick fixes. Below is a…
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Navigating robots.txt for better site management
You pay for traffic, pour hours into content, and then wonder why Google misses half your site. Often the answer hides in a twenty-line text file at the root of your server: robots.txt. It’s nothing more than plain ASCII, yet it acts as the first handshake between your website and every crawler that shows up.…
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What Does DDoS Mean? Key Facts Every Site Owner Should Know
Think of your website as a storefront on Main Street. A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is the digital version of hundreds of buses unloading crowds that rush the door at once. The crowd isn’t there to buy anything; it is there to block legitimate customers from even reaching the handle. That is the…
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SSL Certificates: A Practical Guide to Locking Down Website Security Without Wasting Budget
Introduction to SSL certificates What is an SSL certificate? An SSL certificate is a small data file that ties a cryptographic key to your domain name. When visitors load your site over HTTPS, the browser and server create an encrypted channel using that key. Anyone sniffing the traffic sees gibberish instead of customer data, login…