This is a question we are asked by people on a regular basis: “Why is my website slow?” The answer provided here, since 2012, is…
Why Is My Website Slow?
WordPress Optimization
The Silicon Dales WordPress Optimization service refers specifically to improving the page speed load times on a WordPress website.
This page contains tutorials if you’d like to have a go yourself, case studies if you’d like to see how we’ve done it for other clients and extension reviews of those handy pieces of software which might help you (and us!) along the way.
However, if you’d like to book Silicon Dales to speed up your WordPress website, get in touch.
Big WordPress Problem – Slow WP Admin / Uncached Pageloads Slow
Some problems are first world problems. Other problems are big WordPress problems. Slow WordPress Admin? Slow uncached pageloads? We deal with some big WordPress customers,…
Case Study: Optimization for Expression Fiber Arts
Expression Fiber Arts engaged Robin Scott from Silicon Dales to optimize their blog. Expression Fiber Arts® offer heart-crushingly gorgeous, hand-dyed luxury yarn. With large images…
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.…
Case Study: WordPress Optimization for LogoVisual
LogoVisual booked Silicon Dales for a WordPress speed optimization, resulting in a 3.5 second time saving. The Client LogoVisual are a team of designers, manufacturers…
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?…
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…
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…
How to Measure the Speed of your Website from Around the World
There are lots of tools out there which help us to track, and measure, the speed of a website. You can install bits and pieces…
Case Study: Re-Theme, Migration & Optimization for Client of Xperformm – the Sports Consultancy Agency
Founded in 2013 Xperformm is company rooted in the sports, fitness and physical training arena. XPerformm Inc provide web, social, email and software -as-a-service. We’re…