High-Performance Order Storage on WooCommerce

In late 2022, WooCommerce introduced plans to optimize the performance of WooCommerce Core by focusing on Orders and ways to efficiently manage Order data. Originally dubbed the Custom Order Tables project, it has since been renamed to High-Performance Order Storage, or HPOS. With the release of WooCommerce 7.1, an option was introduced that allowed users Read More >

How to Set Up the Autoptimize Plugin For WordPress

The Autoptimize plugin for WordPress is a page speed tool. It combines code minification and aggregation with caching, CDN, and other optimization features. With a WordPress site, as with any dynamic site, optimizing performance involves a lot of moving parts. For those who are not comfortable tweaking settings at the server level, this plugin can Read More >

High-Performance WordPress Hosting with NGINX Reverse-Proxy Caching

InMotion Hosting’s WordPress Hosting platform uses NGINX reverse-proxy caching technology to achieve the highest performance for sites using the WordPress content management system (CMS). A powerful, event-driven asynchronous web server capable of serving extremely high numbers of visitors very quickly, NGINX excels at serving static content (e.g. JavaScript files, CSS files, images, etc.), and when Read More >

How Much Does PageSpeed Fluctuate?

When testing your site with the Google PageSpeed Insights tool you may have noticed that the results may vary over time. In this guide, we’ll go over this tool and explain why it might fluctuate over time, then explain what this means for a webmaster. How Do I Run a PageSpeed Insights Test? There are Read More >

How to Stress Test Your Website With ab (ApacheBench)

The ab command also known as ApacheBench is a command line benchmarking tool for testing the amount of time it takes your server to respond to HTTP requests. You can use this information to determine the estimated number of simultaneous requests your Apache HTTP server can handle before it begins to degrade the overall performance. Read More >

How To Load Test Your Site With k6

Servers are getting faster and faster, but there are still plenty of websites suffering from poor performance. There are many variables that might cause a website to load slowly, and there are websites that have good load times, but only up to a certain number of concurrent users. How can you find out how many Read More >

How To Stress Test Your WordPress Site With Loader.io

While visiting the WordPress reddit forum, I stumbled upon an interesting question about stress-testing websites: It’s difficult to know how your website will perform under peak conditions, especially given the many variables that can affect your site. And the worst time to test your site is the moment when a peak hits. By then, it’s Read More >

Performance Team Proposes Support SVG Images in WordPress

Shortly after proposing the inclusion of WebP images by default on WordPress, the Performance Team has proposed adding SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) image support to WordPress. Bringing SVG support into WordPress has been a community effort for the past 9 years, with the ticket for this request being updated every couple of months. So what Read More >

WordPress Releases the Performance Lab Plugin

On October 12, 2021, a group of WordPress Core contributors proposed the creation of a team at WordPress dedicated to alleviating the pain points when it came to WordPress websites and performance. The proposal highlights how WordPress is falling behind when focusing on performance compared to competitors and the importance of fast websites in the Read More >

Convert Jpeg Images to WebP With WordPress Performance Lab

The WebP image format is capable of creating images for your website that are much smaller (and thus load faster) than standard .jpeg or .png images. Even easier, with the WordPress performance lab plugin, you can have .jpeg images automatically converted into WebP format. Follow along below to learn how. Enabling WebP Uploads WebP image Read More >

WebP in WordPress 5.8 – Support for the WebP Image Format

WordPress introduced support for WebP images with the release of WordPress 5.8 in July 2021. Some users saw this as a step forwards in modernizing WordPress websites’ performance. In late March 2022, the Performance Team proposed enabling WebP image conversion by default on WordPress. This was met with pushback from the community as there were Read More >

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