WordPress Speed

LAST UPDATED September 21, 2020

SiteGround CPU Usage Limits: how to reduce them (but leave otherwise since it’s a “mysterious” ploy to force you to upgrade)

16 Ways To Reduce DNS Lookups In WordPress (GTmetrix Item)

8 Useful Cloudflare Page Rules For WordPress Sites

How To Clean Your WordPress Database (And Old Plugin Tables)

How To Block Bad Bots In WordPress: A Guide To Combatting Spammy Bits From Hitting Your Site And Stressing Out Your Server

How To Fix Slow WooCommerce Product Pages (15 Ways)

How To Lazy Load Images + Videos In WordPress (And Replace YouTube iFrames With A Preview Image) For Better GTmetrix Results

How To Host Google Analytics Locally In WordPress: This Fixes The “Leverage Browser Caching” Issue In GTmetrix For Google Analytics

How To Disable Plugins On Specific Pages + Posts In WordPress

How To Disable The WordPress Heartbeat API (The Easy Way)

How To Speed Up A Slow Elementor Website (18 Ways)

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