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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reviews are enabled by default when you install WooCommerce. If you aren’t using them, they load unnecessary scripts, dashboard widgets,...

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

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...

Embeds were released with WordPress 4.4. This is basically the magic that auto converts your YouTube videos, Tweets, and URLs...

The WordPress Heartbeat API uses /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php to run AJAX calls from the web browser. While this is great and all it...

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

Query strings such as “?” or “&” are sometimes appended on the ends of assets (CSS, JS) in WordPress, along with the...

Similar to how WordPress generates RSS feeds, it also generates RSS feed links for your pages/posts, comments, tags, etc. You...

By default, the following tag shows up in every WordPress install. <meta name="generator" content="WordPress 4.7.5" /> It shows the version...