Tools, Tips and Tricks for a Blazing Fast Website

Who does not want a fast website? After all, most internet users are an impatient lot. If your website does not load at a satisfactory rate, you will end up losing traffic. In fact, Google even considers page speed to be a decisive factor in search engine rankings. Naturally, it is not just beneficial but even mandatory to have a website that loads blazing fast. In this article, I shall…

Website Speed Part 4 : PHP Programming for Speed

Programming for speed is not what most coders think of. What they tend to consider first, and usually only, is getting it working. Sometimes people will talk of refactoring to reduce the amount of code, but again this is usually only for those that suffer with the luxury of having too much money and time. I wish I had that luxury, to be able to spend twice as long on…

Website Speed Part 3 – Caching WordPress

As so many people have WordPress installed, I thought I would share with you a key technique integral to WordPress that will help your website speed. W3 Total Cache is a dream plugin for achieving caching, I would recommend it to anybody. Yet there are times when you do not want to cache a whole page for long periods, but to cache sections of it so that a page rebuild…

Choosing Media Temples Dedicated-Virtual (dv) Service as Our New Host

Media Temple is one of the more popular premium web hosting services out there. Media Temple is also pretty divisive – some swear by its quality, others claim it’s nothing but overpriced style-over-performance. Regardless, you can’t deny that it’s used by some big websites and bloggers like Gary Vaynerchuk, Sony, Starbucks, Toyota, Adobe, CSS-Tricks, and most recently, our site, Speckyboy Design Magazine. Up until recently we had been using Media…

Website Speed Part 2: Working With and Optimizing Images for the Web

This is the second part of our website speed series where we closely look at the techniques employed to make a website run as fast as possible while still maintaining it’s stunning look and feel.
Images can make or break a website, whether that be adding a humanist feel to a site, adding animation and mouse over effects or finalizing that amazing design that just can’t be achieved with CSS alone. Yet all these images could cost the biggest price of any website, loss of visiting traffic. If a website takes too long to load or is unusable due to all of the images then it’s game over as the user will quickly go back to Google and search again.

Website Speed Part 1: Write More Efficient CSS

As part of my new position as CTO of SpeckyBoy I’ve decided to write a series of articles that will help you understand what it takes to make a truly fast site. As you may have noticed SpeckyBoy just got a shot in the arm recently and is running a heck of a lot faster. This is because of all of the tips that I will be listing in the…

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