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Optimize your website’s performance. Strategies and tools for improving page load speed and user experience.

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Website Speed Part 4 : PHP Programming for Speed

Website Speed Part 4 : PHP Programming for Speed

Programming for speed is not what most coders think of. What they tend to consider first, and usually only, is getting it working. Sometimes people will talk of refactoring to…

Website Speed Part 3 – Caching WordPress

Website Speed Part 3 – Caching WordPress

As so many people have it installed, I thought I would share with you a key techniques integral to caching WordPress that will help your website speed. W3 Total Cache…

How the Cloud is Affecting Web Designers

How the Cloud is Affecting Web Designers

By now you must have heard of the buzz labeled as cloud computing. The basics of the cloud are still unknown by many designers, but it’s not difficult. A general…

Website Speed Part 2:  Working With and Optimizing Images for the Web

Website Speed Part 2: Working With and Optimizing Images for the Web

This is the second part the website speed series where we closely look at the techniques employed to make a website run as fast as possible while still maintaining it’s…

How to Write More Efficient CSS to Speed up Your Site

How to Write More Efficient CSS to Speed up Your Site