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This is a guest post. Opinions and recommendations are the author’s own and not necessarily those of WP Rocket. The team at Roots developed two distinct products that simplify managing WordPress projects and codebases on your own server (e.g., a VPS, Digital Ocean droplet, AWS EC2 instance, etc.). These projects are Bedrock and Trellis, which […]
Last update on June 25, 2021
Hosts boast a ton of features with confusing terms for their hosting plans. All you want to know is, “How fast is my server?” Let’s clear it all up.
Last update on August 18, 2021
Creating a localhost environment for WordPress can save you a ton of time. Learn how to do it, along with our top 3 recommendations for web server software.
Last update on July 29, 2021
Image optimization is an art that you cannot refuse to acknowledge if you want your website to be as fast as possible and give your readers the best user experience. As any painter needs to know the technicalities of their job (the use of color, styles, and artistic supports), you—as an image optimizer artist—should dig […]
Last update on May 3, 2023
Understanding how to correctly identify the size of your images and how to resize them is fundamental to boost the performance of your website.
A fast and optimized web page always contains images which have been previously resized and compressed.
What you need to know about Lazy loading, the technique that differentiates the loading of images, boosts your website’s loading time.
Last update on May 3, 2023
A question the folks at WP Rocket are often asked is: “Should I use Cloudflare?” It’s not at all surprising—WP Rocket offers Cloudflare integration to help the CDN’s users quickly connect their WordPress sites. If you’ve never used Cloudflare before, you might be wondering if it’s something special due to this add-on and if it’s […]
Last update on July 29, 2021
Maybe you’re choosing a new web host or simply curious about what’s “normal.” Whatever the reason, understanding disk space and how much you need for your WordPress website is an important consideration when choosing a hosting package or anticipating how much space you might need in future. In this post, we’ll explore how much space […]
Last update on July 29, 2021
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
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
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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