Speed

Speed is a really important part of running a successful website.

Search engines reward fast websites because users respond so much better to a fast loading web page. Click here to read the definitive guide to why Google thinks speed matters on the web – it basically boils down to user satisfaction, which also leads to higher conversion rates and better engagement. Google even provides a revenue impact calculator here:

There’s no need to worry, however, because by using the resources on this page, or by booking Silicon Dales, you can get your website and business up to speed and serving users with lightning fast content.

How To: Leverage Browser Caching for Images, CSS and JS

Ever checked your website speed using GTmetrix, Pingdom, PageSpeed or Yslow… or any of the other many and various latest and greatest speed checking tools? ***2021 update: take a look at Lighthouse Well, if you have, you might have come across a request to “leverage browser caching…” or similar. What does “Leverage Browser Caching” actually …

Complete WooCommerce Speed Optimization Guide

As accredited WooCommerce Expert developers, Silicon Dales offers a full WooCommerce optimization service to medium and larger Woo stores, but what do we actually do? Well, not everything in our toolbox is filed under “easy fix” but there’s a whole host of great ways you can get started on the road to a faster online store, by following the steps in this guide.

Introducing the “WP Rocket” WordPress Plugin

In this post, we describe the main features of the WP Rocket WordPress plugin.

Extension Name: WP Rocket
Developer: WP MEDIA
Price: from USD $39
Click here to download WP Rocket

Please note, Silicon Dales are WP Rocket affiliates.

25% off at WP Rocket – 6th Anniversary Special

WP Rocket are now part of the furniture. They’ve been around the website optimization block. They really know their stuff, and, their 6th anniversary has just come around. We love the WP Rocket plugin here at Silicon Dales. Check out this page all about WP Rocket to see how we’ve used it to speed up …

Case study: speed-up for NextBigFuture.com

The Client NextBigFuture is a magazine site for Space, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Medicine, Anti-aging Biotechnology, and Nanotechnology. Covering all future-forward technology and business, the site has an active and engaged following. The Task To find significant page speed improvements and performance enhancements for the WordPress website. This was achieved by making the site AMP-native. The …

Black Friday Sale at EWWW Image Optimizer

Silicon Dales are big fans of EWWW Image Optimizer and use it frequently for clients. It’s also referenced in our guides for handling images and speeding up a WordPress website. EWWW are running two offers this Thanksgiving: Premium Compression API The Premium Compression API from EWWW Image Optimizer is a service which can be used …

Black Friday Offer: More than double the credits at ShortPixel

We like ShortPixel here at Silicon Dales. In our WordPress speedup guides, we reference ShortPixel as a good option for crunching all your WordPress images. It’s always good when your favourite stuff is on offer during the Black Friday sales, so here’s a fab offer from the team at ShortPixel: “For each purchased package, the …

Case Study: Full eCommerce site redesign & launch for Logovisual Ltd

Whiteboard manufacturers LogoVisual booked Silicon Dales for a full eCommerce site redesign & launch, after initially booking a WordPress Speed Optimization task.