At WP Engine’s DE{CODE} 2023 event, our Director of Frontend Engineering Mike Crantea joined a panel of performance experts for an in-depth look at the best practices and tools for understanding and improving your Core Web Vitals (CWV) scores on your WordPress site. Here’s our roundup! In this article, we’ll learn: Watch the Full Panel […]
Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is a Core Web Vitals metric that measures how long it takes for the largest element on a page to become visible in the browser. You can think of it like user speed dating: LCP is your chance to prove value quickly and keep the conversation flowing. In other words, first […]
First Input Delay (FID) is a Core Web Vitals metric that measures the time between a user’s first interaction with a page and the browser’s response. You can liken it to calling an elevator: FID would be the time between pressing the call button and it lighting up, signaling that the request has been received. […]
Setting a performance budget is the best way to ensure your website remains fast, accessible, and competitive—but knowing where to start can be tricky. Here are 3 foundational steps that will help you understand where you are, where you should be, and how to improve your web performance metrics. What is a Web Performance Budget? […]
Page performance is a key aspect of maintaining a successful website. But what exactly does performance mean in this context, why is it important, and what benchmarks can you use to measure it? Luckily, we have Google to help us out. In one of their earlier Lighthouse updates, Google released Core Web Vitals, a system […]
Over the past six months, a number of our performance specialists at XWP have been supporting teams at Google and Yoast to build and launch the WordPress Performance Lab plugin and work on WordPress Core Performance. Performance Lab plugin is a collection of modules designed to monitor and enhance the performance of your WordPress site, […]
When it comes to building high-performance websites, small changes to the way your site functions, the content within it, or even the way you work can have a huge effect on user experience. It’s often thought that performance is all about speed—and that’s definitely a big part of it. But at XWP, we believe that […]
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: website performance is key for a successful business. With users expecting faster and faster load times, and search engines now taking website performance scores into effect, performance is more important than ever. That’s why, working with our partners Jetpack, we’ve helped launch Boost, a unique performance […]
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