Why Is My Website Slow?

Snail

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 generally speaking in a WordPress context – because we are WP specialists – but a lot of the rules will apply to really any website, particularly one which runs on …

Read more

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 …

Read more

Minimum Requirements for WooCommerce

Below are the minimum requirements for WooCommerce and (by extension) WordPress. Some are taken from WooCommerce, some from WordPress, and also, some, we are adding as recommendations. It should be apparent, below, which is which! Before getting started, if you’re here to assess a WooCommerce host, then you may be interested to check out our …

Read more

Black Friday Promotion: 35% off WP Rocket licences

We love WP Rocket here at Silicon Dales. Check out this page all about WP Rocket to see how we’ve used it to speed up sites and reduce load on valuable hosting for clients across different industries and countries. For Black Friday 2018, the team at WP Rocket are offering a generous 35% off new …

Read more

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 …

Read more

WP Rocket Seasonal Licence Offer

Silicon Dales recommends WP Rocket as one of the many tools you can use to speed up your own WordPress website or WooCommerce store. The Offer ***offer has now expired*** 35% off all licenses Example ***offer has now expired*** For the top package: “Infinite” you’ll save $87.15. The package will reduce from $249 to $161.85 …

Read more

WP Rocket Black Friday Deals 2020

WP Rocket Black Friday Details:Running from November 24th to December 2nd, 2020 30% OFF new licenses Here are the discounted prices: – Single license – 1 website: $34,30 instead of $49 – Plus license – 3 websites: $69,30 instead of $99 – Infinite license – unlimited websites: $174,30 instead of $249 WP Rocket What’s this? …

Read more