If you test your website speed with tools, such as GTMetrix.com, or on Pingdom Tools, you'll see a suggestion: Remove Query strings from static resources. Resources, containing query strings cannot be cached. You'll get an improved speed score if you remove those query strings. Files that ... Read More →
How to enable Free SSL, HTTP/2 protocol and CDN
You can get Free SSL (Flexible SSL) from CloudFlare. With that, CloudFlare has added support for HTTP/2 protocol. CloudFlare is a Content Delivery Network, that will optimize the delivery of your web pages so that your visitors get faster load times and better performance. This is how CloudFlare ... Read More →
Improve Your Website Performance
Slides from my recent talk "Improve Your Website Performance" This talk was focused on why speed matters, how you can measure, and different ways you can improve your page load. We also discussed new HTTP/2 Protocol and it's benefits. Suggestions to improve website performance: optimize images, ... Read More →
List of resources to speed up your website
This list includes: Online tools to test website speed Articles to interpret results Performance statistics Books on how to improve website performance CDN providers Online tools to test your website performance: Webpagetest.org - is sponsored by Google, and is one of the most ... Read More →
10 ways to speed up your website
Why is it important? Nobody likes waiting for a slow website. Google uses Page Speed as one of the factors to determine rank. Faster load times will improve your ranking, as well as help you gain more organic traffic. It will deliver higher conversions and higher revenue. Also, with such a ... Read More →
Benefits of HTTP/2 Protocol
Earlier this year, HTTP/2 protocol was released. It's a replacement for HTTP/1.x protocol that hasn't been changed since 1999. That's a lifetime in Internet time! The focus of HTTP/2 is site performance, network and server resource usage. It's based on Google's protocol SPDY. You can find more ... Read More →
How to add custom post types to a Widget
Recently I was working on adding Custom Post Type - Portfolio in a widget on Home page. An example of that would be Portfolio display on my Home Page. Each portfolio piece is a custom post type that gets added dynamically as I include a new piece. In Genesis there is a default widget - Genesis ... Read More →
Add previous/next links on single page of custom post type in Genesis
If you have a custom post type (for example - Portfolio), you might want to add Previous and Next buttons under each portfolio piece. Here's an example of that on this website: Single Porfolio piece. Notice at the bottom Previous and Next links go to other single pages of custom post type - ... Read More →