General

We now have a Script Manager in the Perfmatters plugin. This allows you to disable scripts on a per post/page...

WooCommerce sites, especially large ones, almost always encounter load time issues with the following AJAX request. https://domain.com/?wc-ajax=get_refreshed_fragments Even on our...

With content on the web getting longer, it’s important to take advantage of features like lazy load in WordPress to...

Hosting Google Analytics locally can help speed up your site by reducing extra DNS lookups and resolving the “leverage browser...

While defer JavaScript pushes the script to the bottom of the page load, you can instead delay JavaScript based on user interaction. This...

Preload allows you to specify resources (such as fonts, images, JavaScript, and CSS) that are needed right away or very...

Dashicons is the official icon font of the WordPress admin as of 3.8. Some themes and developers utilize this (dashicons.min.css) on...

DNS prefetching allows you to resolve domain names (perform a DNS lookup in the background) before a user clicks on...

They started adding jQuery Migrate in WordPress 3.6. Most up-to-date frontend code and plugins don’t require jquery-migrate.min.js. It’s for themes...

The WordPress REST API provides API endpoints for WordPress data types that allow developers to interact with sites remotely by...

The “Reduce unused CSS” warning is triggered by PageSpeed Insights when you have code being loaded by a plugin or...

Some WordPress themes and plugins have Google Maps API built-in and unfortunately sometimes don’t have a way to turn it...

By default, the following tag shows up in every WordPress install. <link rel='shortlink' href='https://domain.com?p=712' /> This is used for a shortlink to...

Preconnect allows the browser to set up early connections before an HTTP request, eliminating round-trip latency and saving time for...

Introduced in recent versions of WooCommerce and WordPress, there is an integrated Password Strength Meter which forces users to use...

When you have WooCommerce installed it by default loads its scripts and styles on every page of your WordPress site....

Due to the nature of how JavaScript works, you will most likely see an “Eliminate render-blocking resources” warning in speed...

XML-RPC was added in WordPress 3.5 and allows for remote connections, and unless you are using your mobile device to...

Sometimes the smallest of changes can make a huge impact when it comes to performance as well as security. By default,...

By default, the following tag shows up in every WordPress install. <link rel="wlwmanifest" type="application/wlwmanifest+xml" href="https://yourdomain.com/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml" /> The above link is...

Google Fonts is a great service, but there are some scenarios when you might need to disable Google Fonts. Here...

The WordPress REST API enables the CMS to communicate with other web properties, no matter what programming language they’re written...

Our Instant Page feature lets you automatically prefetch URLs in the background after a user hovers over a link. This...

Embeds were released with WordPress 4.4. However, with this came some extra inline code they add to your site (link...

By default, the following tag shows up in every WordPress install. <link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml" title="RSD" href="https://yourdomain.com/xmlrpc.php?rsd" /> The above link...