Tag Archives: pagespeed

How We Cut Our Page Load Time by 10 Seconds

Posted on by Douglas Karr
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Speed

Speed and social just don’t seem to work together when it comes to a great website. We migrated our site to WPEngine (affiliate link) and it vastly improved the performance and stability of our site. But our site design – with a fat footer that promoted our social activity on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and on our Podcast – slowed our site down to a crawl. It was bad. While a great page loads in 2 seconds or less, our site was taking over 10 seconds for a page to complete. … Continue reading →

Monitor Site Speed with Torbit Insight

Posted on by Douglas Karr
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Measure Site Speed

The site is loading slow. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve received this message over the years when working with clients. Site speed is incredibly important… it can reduce bounces, keep visitors engaged, get your site ranked better in Google, and ultimately lead to more conversions. We love fast sites… it’s one of the first issues we attack with a client (and also why we host WordPress on WPEngine – that’s an affiliate link). Getting a note that the site is slow is frustrating because it could be … Continue reading →