Onboarding, Site Setup & Speed Optimization

Eight ways to test WordPress speed, from quick lab tests to real visitor Core Web Vitals data, and how to tell which numbers actually matter.

If your site runs Ezoic, every page passes through two systems before a visitor sees it: our server, where WordPress...

WP Alpha comes with an inbuilt AI-powered SmartUpdates system that takes care of patching WordPress core, plugins and themes. The...

Slow pages that carry YouTube videos are a common question, and the cause is usually not the server. Every standard...

In this short video, we walk you through the process of setting up server-based CRON jobs on WPAlpha hosting. Cron...

A speed test measures one page load, from one location, at one moment. The Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) measures...

First Contentful Paint (FCP) is the moment a visitor first sees something appear on the page. On most WordPress sites...

Sometimes a customer tells us their site is fast in every speed test, yet Google Ads reports a “Below average”...

Tickets about a slow WordPress dashboard usually describe the same thing: opening the page editor, saving a post or loading...

When a speed test shows a slow page, the natural assumption is that the server is slow. Often the slowest...

Some speed problems cannot be solved on the server, however well it is set up. Google Analytics, advertising pixels and...

The WordPress CRON or WP-cron scheduled job can put a serious amount of load on a busy WordPress site. From...