Tag: speed

  • Benchmarks Indicate Jetpack Doesn’t Negatively Impact Site Loading Times

    Benchmarks Indicate Jetpack Doesn’t Negatively Impact Site Loading Times

    Jetpack is a WordPress plugin maintained by Automattic and has more than 30 different modules. The modules provide a variety of features including, contact forms, stats, and related posts. Part of Jetpack’s reputation in the WordPress community is that it’s bloated and slows down websites. Sam Hotchkiss, who is part of the Jetpack team, has…

  • Page.ly Launches New CDN Called PressCDN

    Page.ly has announced a brand new CDN service called PressCDN. Page.ly has partnered with a number of companies in order to provide a global distribution network. The biggest selling point they are pushing is speed. For those that don’t know, CDN stands for Content Delivery Network. A CDN is a content delivery network that stores…

  • Did WPTavern Load Any Faster For You?

    I’m nearing the end of my one month trial period of using WP CDN and before I make the decision to purchase a CDN account, I wanted to hear from all of you, especially from those that visit the actual site multiple times a week if the site has loaded any faster for you since…

  • Is Gravatar Slowing You Down?

    We already know that Gravatar is a third party service and that support for it is built into WordPress. But, is that dependence on Gravatar slowing your site down? SEOMofo takes a hard look at the performance hit that Gravatar can cause on a WordPress powered website with various configurations in place such as whether…