Performance

May 2021, Let The Panic Attacks Begin… Back in 2020, Google announced that something called ‘Core Web Vitals’ would be a ranking factor for Google search results from May 2021 onwards. This announcement caused quite a ruckus among some Webmasters desperate to…

In light of some recent inaccurate comparisons between WPX and Kinsta that ‘accidentally’ omitted quite a few facts, I decided to set the record a little straighter with this comparison below (especially tests that don’t show the test URLs for…

If you ever needed WordPress hosting, you probably wondered which is better: Cloudways or WPX? Both services are popular web hosting providers, they both have advantages, and they both had slip ups in the past. So how can you know…

Let’s Get Straight To The Prosecution Evidence: So you have looked at the Mobile result for your website on Google’s Page Speed Insights tool and been horrified/alarmed/bothered by the result there e.g. Tim Cook could be angered by the above…

ReviewSignal.com is an independent hosting review site run by a dude called Kevin Ohashi. Each year, Kevin runs a batch of tests – raw speed, uptime and load handling – on most of the major players in WordPress Hosting. Instead…

Do Google Page Speed Insights Scores Reflect Rankings? We are increasingly living in an age where more and more webmasters are concerned/frustrated/obsessed with their ‘Performance Grades’ or scores, especially on Google’s Page Speed Insights tool. After all, it’s Google right…

Here is Why your WordPress Admin is Slow There’s your website speed that the online world sees & then there’s your ‘backend’ WP Admin area speed where you work on your site… As co-founding CEO of WPX Hosting, established in…

Can You Trust ‘Performance Grade’ Scores On Pingdom, GTMetrix, Google Page Speed Insights etc.? As the co-founder and CEO of (probably) the world’s fastest WordPress hosting service, often WPX customers will come to us being very alarmed about a seemingly bad…

Reason #1: Impatience? If a website intended to display high-quality photography lives on a poor, slow or badly optimized hosting service, that means a poor visitor experience as the pages will usually load very slowly. In short, we’re all getting…