HTTP/3 keeps coming up in performance conversations. Hosting providers mention it, CDNs advertise it, PageSpeed audits reference it. But what does it actually mean for your images and your Core Web Vitals scores? Turns out, some things change, some things…
You’ve probably seen TTFB show up in a speed test at some point. Maybe you ignored it. Maybe you Googled it and got a wall of technical text. Either way, here’s the plain version. What is TTFB? TTFB( Time to…
Progressive JPEG used to be one of those recommendations you’d see everywhere. Almost every image optimization guide mentioned it. Faster perceived loading, better experience on slow connections, fewer visual artifacts while images download. None of that was wrong. But the…
Most iPhone users who run WordPress sites have hit this wall at least once. You try to upload a photo straight from your camera roll, and WordPress either throws an error or does something weird with the file. The culprit,…
Most people don’t think twice about the metadata inside their images. You take a photo, upload it, done. But that image file is carrying more than just pixels. There’s color data, camera settings, sometimes a copyright notice, and in a…
Custom fonts make your site look professional and on-brand. They also make it slow. You load your page and see Arial for a second, then your brand font kicks in. Text shifts. Headings jump. Your CLS score tanks. That flash…