Is Google Page Speed Insights used to determine your rank in Google search results? This question comes up quite often and the answer is a bit nuanced. The short answer is page speed does influence your rank in Google search, but your Google Page Speed Insights score does not influence your rank. Google Search Console […]
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Gutenberg 7.3 Adds Navigation Block Color Options
Gutenberg 7.3 has received 159 contributions from 56 contributors. This includes some changes to the navigation block, including the ability to add text and background colors. Furthermore, block collections api has been added as well as placeholder blocks for post elements. Additional improvements have been made for improving the editors speed. The team reduced total […]
How To Remove The WooCommerce Generator Tag
WooCommerce is the most popular eCommerce solution for WordPress. It’s also one of the most popular eCommerce platforms on the web. However, WooCommerce loads a meta generator tag in the header of your website’s code. Having this meta generator tag will not hurt your website’ search engine optimization (SEO) value. However, it’s impact is often […]
How To Configure Heartbeat Control For WordPress
When it comes to optimizing WordPress, sometimes you need to attack an issue that doesn’t directly make your website faster. The Heartbeat API is a piece of JavaScript that allows WordPress to ping your browser to see if it is still active. This is used for monitoring for features like autosave. However, if you are […]
How To Configure The Autoptimize Plugin in WordPress
Autoptimize is one of the most popular speed optimization plugins for WordPress. However, the plugin can be complicated to setup and is known to cause issues when configured incorrectly. Here are the ideal settings you should use to set up Autoptimize correctly. These settings are less likely to cause issues (notably avoiding issues with cache […]