Speeding up the Web since 2010.
Being a ‘web designer’ (or web developer) is like being a surgeon, or a mechanic.
Not many people can critically assess your work. As long as the heart is beating, or the engine is running, most people have no choice but to assume you did a good job.
With this post I hope to change that. Consider this my attempt to set a bar and educate people of what makes a good web designer.
Most themes show the Published Date above each post. What most themes don’t show (for some reason) is the Last Updated (or Last Modified) Date/Time. This sucks, because no one (including Google) will be able to fully appreciate the work you put into your blog!
Luckily WordPress already saves this information for each post and it is pretty easy to integrate into your theme using a plugin. Today I’ll show you how.
Since v2.1.0 OMGF sports a nifty new feature called Auto Detect. This feature allows OMGF to automatically find the fonts your theme is using. Together with the ‘remove Google Fonts‘ feature, OMGF makes it incredible easy to boost WordPress’ performance.
Now you little detectives must want to know how we can be sure that OMGF has detected all the fonts! Today I’ll show you how to setup OMGF’s Auto-detect feature and confirm that all fonts have been captured.
Read moreFind out which Fonts a (WordPress) Website is using
Having a high Bounce Rate in Google Analytics could mean one of two things: either you have a really boring website or people found what they’re looking for and leave. It depends per website and you can’t just assume one or the other. To find out what’s going on, you can use an Adjusted Bounce Rate.
Read moreHow to Setup Adjusted Bounce Rate for Google Analytics in CAOS
Dear internet, please stop worrying about your Google Pagespeed score.
Okay. That is a weird thing for me to say, since I’m offering WordPress services to boost your overall Performance Score. But it’s the truth.
Your Google Pagespeed Insights score is a meaningless metric if you don’t know how to interpret it. Allow me to explain.
Read moreGoogle Pagespeed Insights 101 or: What’s the Meaning of my Pagespeed Score?