There are a lot of “Make WordPress Faster” posts on the Web. And a lot of them are good. But we’ve distilled the things necessary — the “you ain’t got no choice, yo” sort of stuff — down to this Top 5. Do these and, by and large, the details of increasing your WordPress site’s speed take care of themselves.

Sometimes, loading the jQuery library from Google’s CDN instead of a local copy is advantageous. Sometimes not. Let’s hash-out when and why.

Series: AJ dispels some common myths about site speed. In this post, Myth #1: ‘Load Time is the Most Important Performance Metric’. Wrong-o-rama. Learn why.

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…2 seconds… ou may have heard it said that this is the amount of time you have to get your content in front of the eyes of your website’s visitors before they start to bounce, or before you begin to lose money. While this 2 second figure is indeed true, it doesn’t actually tell the whole story. Website speed is not a …

If you’re reading this, you’ve probably followed an online W3 Total Cache install, setup and configuration tutorial that….uhhh… didn’t go so well. Here’s why.