How to Boost WordPress Performance with NitroPack
The performance of a WordPress site is crucial for providing a seamless user experience and optimizing SEO. There’s a lot you can do to boost Core Web Vitals by fine-tuning… Read more
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Posts tagged: Performance
How to Use Next-Gen Images With WordPress
Improving the Core Web Vitals for your WordPress site is one of the best ways to boost its rank in Google. Serving “next-gen images” is one of the more frequent… Read more
Mike Davey
Feb 12, 2024
WP Offload Media 3.1 Released: Efficient Offloading and Performance Gains
WP Offload Media 3.1 improves performance for large sites and multisites while also setting the stage for new ways to monitor and manage offloaded media in the upcoming release of… Read more
Kevin Hoffman
Dec 7, 2022
How to Use Xdebug for Advanced PHP Debugging
You could just debug your PHP code using dump debugging functions such as error_log, print, and var_dump, and let’s be honest, we’ve all done it a lot! While helpful sometimes,… Read more
Iain Poulson
Apr 21, 2021
SQL Query Optimization for Faster WordPress Sites
You know that a fast site == happier users, improved ranking from Google, and increased conversions. Maybe you even think your WordPress site is as fast as it can be… Read more
Iain Poulson
Apr 7, 2020
Amazon S3 vs CloudFront: Why Delivering WordPress Media Directly From S3 is a Bad Idea
Amazon S3 is a sensible choice for storing your website’s assets in the cloud, but for delivery the benchmarks show that using a CDN is necessary to see any major… Read more
Matt Shaw
Mar 10, 2020
WP Offload Media 2.2 Released: Offload Existing Media Items in the Background & More
It is with immense pleasure that we’d like to announce the release of WP Offload Media 2.2! 🎉 This release brings the much-requested background offloading of existing Media Library items.… Read more
Ian
Jun 11, 2019
Optimizing Laravel Part 3: Improving Performance with Object Caching
This is article 3 of 4 in the series “Optimizing Laravel” In my last article we looked at what a database index is and how we can use database indexing… Read more
Gilbert Pellegrom
Jun 5, 2019
Optimizing Laravel Part 1: The Basics
This is article 1 of 4 in the series “Optimizing Laravel” Laravel is a very popular PHP framework these days and can be used for a range of web applications,… Read more
Gilbert Pellegrom
Feb 5, 2019
How We Built an Email Queue that Can Send 100 Emails Per Second Through Amazon SES
It’s no secret that I’ve been plugging away at WP Offload SES, a new plugin that we’re hoping to launch soon that will make it easier to send your site… Read more
Matt Shaw
Oct 16, 2018
Improve Page Load Time For Your WordPress Site with WP Offload S3: A Case Study
One of the great things about working at Delicious Brains is working on products that I use and love outside of work. I was a WP Migrate DB Pro customer… Read more
Iain Poulson
Aug 7, 2018
Mergebot Now 1,200% Faster: Tuning a Laravel App with Blackfire
We just hit a huge milestone in our Mergebot beta by lifting the 1,000 queries per deployment limit 🎉. We created Mergebot to make merging WordPress databases easy. When we… Read more
Gilbert Pellegrom
Apr 11, 2017
Finding Bottlenecks in WordPress Code
A few months back Iain wrote about how our team pushes each other to be better developers, which included insights into how we improve code quality using tools such as… Read more
Ashley
Nov 15, 2016
Assets Addon 1.1 for WP Offload S3 Released
We’ve added minification and gzip options to the Assets addon, allowing you to boost your PageSpeed score from a C to an A.
Ashley
Feb 4, 2016
WP Migrate DB Pro 1.2 Released
Late yesterday we pushed out version 1.2 of WP Migrate DB Pro. We’ve been working on this release for the past two months, incorporating feedback received through customer support. Single… Read more
Brad
Sep 10, 2013
WP Migrate DB Pro 1.1 Released – Now up to 50% faster
On Friday last week, we released version 1.1 of WP Migrate DB Pro. It started out as a small 1.0.2 release with a few bug fixes, but as we dug… Read more
Brad