Web Architecture

Modern transport protocols make a site faster without you touching a single line of content — but only if they're actually switched on. Most owners never check. Here's how to confirm each one, and what to do if it's missing.

If you publish images with a script instead of the media library, WordPress may generate only two sizes of each. The page still works, so nothing looks broken — but every visitor downloads your full-size file.

Hosting is the one decision under every other decision. Get it wrong and no amount of theme-tuning or caching rescues a slow, flaky site. The good news: the things that matter are few, and most of them you can test before you pay.