Performance & Security
Website Uptime Monitoring: Know When Your Site Goes Down
Uptime monitoring checks your site from the outside and alerts you when it fails. Here is how to set checks, alert routes,…
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Performance & Security
Minifying CSS and JavaScript: Does It Still Help?
Minification strips whitespace and comments from CSS and JS. It still helps in 2019, but compression, caching and removing unused code usually…
Performance & Security
DDoS Protection for Small Business Websites
DDoS attacks are not only aimed at big companies. Here is how distributed denial of service attacks work and the practical DDoS…
Performance & Security
Website Disaster Recovery Plan: Getting Back Online Fast
Servers fail, sites get hacked and domains expire. A website disaster recovery plan tells you exactly how to get back online. Use…
Performance & Security
WooCommerce Speed: Fixing a Slow Online Store
Slow WooCommerce stores lose sales. Here is a practical order of fixes: hosting, caching, images, scripts, database bloat and checkout performance.
Performance & Security
Google Safe Browsing Warnings: What to Do If Your Site Is Flagged
Seeing "Deceptive site ahead" or a red Safe Browsing warning? Here is how to confirm the flag, clean the infection, request a…
Performance & Security
Domain and DNS Security: Locking Down Your Domain
Domain and DNS security protects the name that points customers to your site. Here is a practical checklist for registrar locks, DNS…
Performance & Security
Third-Party Scripts: How Tags and Widgets Slow Your Site
Chat widgets, tag managers, pixels and embeds often hurt load time more than your own code. Here is how to find heavy…
Performance & Security
Redis Object Caching for WordPress Sites
Redis object caching stores WordPress data in memory so pages hit the database less. Here is when it helps, how it fits…
Performance & Security
Browser, Page and Object Caching Explained
Caching speeds up websites by reusing work already done. Here is how browser, page and object caching differ, and how to use…