Category: Performance
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Webinar: Dismantle WordPress Performance Bottlenecks
We recently hosted a webinar focusing on cache, more specifically what a WordPress developer should know about caching. One of the things in that webinar that people responded to was a PHP performance profiling tool called Tideways, which makes it…
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PCIe-NVMe – Faster Than SSD
Most people working with computers have first-hand experience of working with solid-state drives that are dramatically faster than the traditional hard drives, as they contain no moving parts. During the recent years a new advancement has been taking hold in…
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Spring Clean WordPress to Make It Secure and Faster
Over time, even well-maintained WordPress sites tend to accumulate some cruft: excess files, unused plugins, unnecessary database contents, and logs that are lying around. They might not be directly affecting the site but are potentially causing a risk for how…
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Command Line Tips to Improve WordPress Performance
There are plenty of WordPress speed optimization articles online, but most of them recommend installing various plugins. Installing more plugins might, unfortunately, make things worse as the plugins themselves slow down WordPress. The plugins might also require learning about a…
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Load Lazy to Load Faster
Lazy loading is a technique that speeds up page loads on web pages. Its idea in all its simplicity is to refrain from loading any images that are not visible. Any images will be loaded just before they appear as the…
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Make Your Site Faster with Caching
Cache is one of those things you often hear about but might never see explained anywhere. We decided it was time to write a quick guide about the different levels of caching that exist out there. Simply put, caching is…
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New Singapore cluster available
We have good news to our current and potential customers doing business in Asia – from now on Seravo offers the possibility to place your website in a data center in Singapore. Server environment is the baseline for site speed…
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New Google analysis reveals the fastest hosts
A recent analysis done by Google, which is using data from the Chrome UX dataset‘s time-to-first-byte measurements from real-world users, shows that the speed of sites managed by Seravo was on average better than that of the traditional industry leaders in…
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Does Cloudflare Help My WordPress Site?
Our WordPress experts frequently give talks about speed optimizing WordPress, so it’s only natural that we get plenty of speed optimization related questions from WordPress users and developers alike. Cloudflare pops up occasionally in the discussion with some people and…
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Debug PHP performance issues with Tideways
We are proud to announce that at Seravo.com we have implemented an integration with Tideways, a service to log and analyze what your WordPress PHP code is doing. It is a great tool to drill down into the PHP execution…