The latest studies and reports are showing that web sites are getting bigger. The pictures and video we’re taking with our smart devices aren’t designed for the web and are contributing to an increase in page weight, year over year. For the past two years, companies like ZippyKid have been including and pushing for the… Read more »
Posts Categorized: speed
Guidelines for high traffic WordPress hosting plans with ZippyKid
If you’re interested in becoming a high traffic customer of ZippyKid, you must pass a code audit. What do we mean by code audit? Your code must pass a basic set of heuristic checks and smells. Turn on debug mode, and look for notices and deprecated calls. If your site is throwing more than 5… Read more »
Introducing Smushkid – optimize images to speed up your website.
A long time ago, I wrote an article talking about how to speed up your photography website by using the Smush.it plugin. This was literally a few months after the company had started and we were hosting less than a 100 websites. As we’ve grown, and as Yahoo! has declined, we started noticing a lot of… Read more »
Measuring the speed of your WordPress site
This guest post is written by Josh Fraser, co-founder and CEO of Torbit. Torbit creates tools for measuring, analyzing and optimizing web performance. Torbit is available to enterprise customers of ZippyKid, or can be used independently to optimize WordPress. WordPress is a great platform. It was designed to be easy to use and extensible, unfortunately,… Read more »
Managed WordPress Hosting Support – What you should expect from us and any other good WordPress host.
This post explains some of the support options and level of support you can get from us here at ZippyKid. Whether you’re hosting a high traffic WordPress site, or a low traffic, but high value (City government) site, you need a way to figure out where the bottlenecks in your code are. We can help… Read more »
Announcing network wide SendGrid integration for Faster WordPress Hosting
We’ve grown quite a bit in the past 36 days, to be specific, we’ve doubled the number of websites we host, and quadrupled the bandwidth we use every month, in fact, according to Chartbeat stats, at any given moment, there are about 2000 people on our network*. What’s even more interesting, is that about 20%… Read more »
How to test your WordPress Cache
The images above show you how to analyze the effectiveness of your cache. Our previous post on How to make WordPress Fastertalked about caching static content, using Mod Pagespeed, and Nginx. The question becomes, how do you measure the effectiveness of your cache? Turns out it’s fairly easy with Safari. If you look at the… Read more »
How to make WordPress faster without the use of a plugin
When it comes to web page load time, she should always say “wow, that was fast”. A Quick update based on Frederick’s comment below ** Please do not take these tips as THE answer, this is a complement, not a replacement. I have purposely not given specifics on how to configure anything, or what value… Read more »
Speed Up Your Wedding Photography Website in less than 5 minutes.
If you have a wedding photography website, more than likely you want to showcase your work, or the work of your colleagues. You want to do this, without putting up low quality pictures, nor do you want to make your visitors wait 20 seconds before the page loads. Here are two plugins I use for… Read more »
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