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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…

Why Clone a WordPress Site? Cloning a WordPress site can be useful for a number of reasons, such as moving a site from one domain to another e.g. from terrykyle.net to terrykyle.com after the .com became available to buy. In…

Top 5 ‘TTFB’ Facts You Should Know: There is already a mountain of jargon and technobabble around Web technology so let’s simplify and get to the bottom of this ‘time to first byte’ stuff together. #5: What on earth is…

So you have moved your beloved websites over from a horrible dinosaur hosting company to WPX and you expected hypersonic speeds but the folks at Pingdom Tools and GTMetrix ain’t so impressed (yet) and your score might look like this:…

Kevin Ohashi is the founder of a review site called ReviewSignal.com  Each year, Kevin conducts independent tests to determine which WordPress hosting companies offer the best performance in terms of page loading speed around the world, server quality and load handling,…

If you’re not a very technical person and you’re probably not if you’re reading this, speeding up a painfully slow WordPress site can seem difficult to say the least. So I’m going to lay out – in NON-techy language –…