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Are you considering translating your WordPress site into another language, or even multiple languages? Adding a translation plugin to your site could open up your business to a larger international audience, providing benefits to both your user experience and organic traffic. The web caters overwhelmingly to English speakers, somewhat unfairly. While English is ranked the […]
Last update on May 11, 2022
WordPress relies on several core files to run your website and the powerful .htaccess configuration file is one of them. Short for “hypertext access,” WordPress uses this file primarily to handle pretty permalinks. But its true power lies in its ability to override your server’s settings—enabling you to add your own rules to this file […]
Last update on July 29, 2021
Soft 404s are fairly common errors that Google sometimes throws up for web pages, particularly for larger sites. They’re also a strange error because soft 404s are a hybrid of 404 and normal pages, and what exactly is causing this error for a particular page might not always be clear. So in this post, I […]
Last update on June 19, 2025
Learn all about how GZIP compression works, how to check if it’s enabled on your WordPress site, and how to switch it on if it’s not in this in-depth guide.
Last update on February 25, 2022
Website accessibility is something of a buzzphrase that most developers and designers know is really important and is something they should do, but don’t really know how to get started or have the time to put processes in place, so they simply put it off. The fact is, websites that don’t make accessibility a priority […]
Last update on July 29, 2021
How do you measure website performance? There’s a lot of information online about how to optimize websites, but how do you really know when you’ve done enough? To help developers measure their optimization efforts—and to remind them to put users in the middle of the performance story—a couple of Googlers have developed the RAIL model. […]
Last update on March 10, 2022
Animated GIFs, more than any other digital file format, have captured the hearts and minds of online users. But man, they’re so damn hard to optimize!I once spent an hour trying to tweak the quality, frame rate, and length of a GIF, ultimately giving up because I couldn’t get the file below 2 MB without […]
Last update on April 14, 2021
WP Rocket 3.1 enables local hosting of Google Analytics files to improve browser caching messages, automatic optimization of WooCommerce’s get_refreshed_fragments request, and improved handling of inline and external JavaScript in the Minify/Combine JS option.
Last update on April 11, 2023
Do you know how much useless image metadata you’re sharing online? Learn how to strip it and avoid performance and security issues in this in-depth tutorial.
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