Tag: Web Performance

A vector graphic is just math, so it stays razor-sharp at any size and weighs a fraction of a photo. That makes SVG the right choice for logos, icons, and diagrams — but only if you embed it the right way, strip the bloat, and sidestep the handful of traps that make a "sharp" format look fuzzy.

WordPress quietly loads an extra JavaScript file called jQuery Migrate on most sites. It's a compatibility crutch for old code — useful while you need it, dead weight once you don't. Here's how to tell which, and how to remove it safely.

WordPress has its own task scheduler, WP-Cron, and most people never think about it until scheduled posts publish late or a busy site's CPU spikes for no obvious reason. The root cause is the same in both cases: WP-Cron isn't a real cron job. It's faked with page loads — and that assumption breaks at both ends of the traffic scale.

Most "speed up WordPress" advice hands you a pile of plugins and wishes you luck. That is how sites end up slower, not faster. The reliable way is a loop: measure a baseline, fix the biggest bottleneck, re-measure — and stop when the numbers say you are done.

Every comparison of these plugins ranks them on themes, languages and features. None of them checks the one property that decides whether a plugin can work for you at all.