Speed

How to Speed Up a WordPress Site: Find the Real Cause First

By Jonathan Wofford / Oct 21, 2026

The short answer To speed up a WordPress site, measure first so you know which part is slow: the server’s response, the weight of the page, or code that holds the page back. We test in GTmetrix on desktop and mobile and read the waterfall to find it. Then fix that cause. Page caching and…

WordPress Image Optimization Case Study: The Website That Was Attacking Itself

By Jonathan Wofford / Sep 9, 2026

A WordPress site was quietly attacking itself, generating 40 percent of its own traffic, while 58,698 optimized images sat unused. Desktop speed went from 49 to 100 once we found all three problems.

reCAPTCHA vs Turnstile: The Case Study of an Invisible Captcha Tax

By Jonathan Wofford / Sep 7, 2026

Every visitor to this site was downloading the same 332KB captcha script eight times over, a 3.6MB tax nobody could see. Here is how we found it and fixed it in two days.

What Happens When a Care Plan Pauses: A 22-Pixel Layout Shift Case Study

By Jonathan Wofford / Sep 1, 2026

A 22-pixel layout shift quietly pushed an Orlando WooCommerce store past Google Cumulative Layout Shift threshold. Here is how we found and fixed it.

WordPress Site Speed Audit: The 8MB That Most Tools Missed

By Jonathan Wofford / Aug 27, 2026

A WordPress site speed audit uncovered 8.2MB of media hidden behind a CDN blind spot, invisible to GTmetrix and PageSpeed. Here is what we found and how we fixed it.

Speed Testing the 10 Best WordPress Chat Plugins

By Jonathan Wofford / Mar 30, 2021

TL;DR – I tested 10 chat plugins for speed results and found Tidio to be the fastest one that meets my needs, plus it has a phone app. Pick 3 for yourself and test each of them. Chat with us if you have any issues. Table below for faster reading & sorting: