Time To First Byte (TTFB) is a page speed metric, which we discussed many years ago in Time To First Byte (TTFB) Demystified and Reduce Time To First Byte (TTFB). These days many of the managed WordPress platforms are claiming that they can reduce the TTFB to under 200ms all over the earth for WordPress. This kind of claim is completely misleading. With a single server WordPress setup, with … [Read more...]
How to Minimize Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)
Google has announced that page experience will affect ranking soon. The page experience update will consider several page experience signals, including LCP, FID, and CLS plus Chrome's recent fix to CLS. We are in a need to explain what is Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) that we are talking about. Suppose you are reading this article and without warning, the text moved down, and you've lost your … [Read more...]
PageSpeed Friendly Social Sharing For WordPress
We are fatigued to fighting with various WordPress Plugin's conflict ultimately lowering our Google PageSpeed score. Despite setting the CORS rightly - actually you can not physically cache the external images, javascripts. It is quite dangerous to use the web server or even a dedicated loadbalancer as both forward and reverse proxy. CORS is the only way to add new header, but javascripts usually … [Read more...]