A few years ago I wrote a guide on how to get a perfect 100/100 score on Pagespeed Insights, Pingdom and GTMetrix. A lot of time has passed since then. The rules have changed and I’ve learned new, easier ways to optimize my WordPress blog. In this post I’ll show you an updated approach to completely optimize your blog using a few efficiënt, easy to use plugins.
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How to Locally Host Google Fonts and Leverage Browser Caching
Google Fonts. Every WordPress blogger uses them. It’s an easy — if not the easiest — way to improve your blog’s looks. Pagespeed Insights. We’ve all heard of that too. And we all want to achieve the highest possible score. Both are brought to you by the same entity we’ve come to know, love — and hate: Google. Love, because they gave us these beautiful fonts. Hate, because as soon as we use them, it lowers our score on Pagespeed Insights!
Today I’m showing you how you can achieve the best of both worlds:
- Maintain your high score on Pagespeed Insights by leveraging your browser cache, and
- Keep using your Google Fonts by hosting them locally.
And I promise you, it couldn’t be easier.
Complete Guide to GDPR Compliance for Google Analytics in WordPress
I’ve already written a lot of posts ever since the new GDPR laws were introduced. Most of CAOS’ code had to be rewritten for the sake of GDPR Compliance. Now we’re nearing — the big — v2.0 and many options have been added. To WordPress — and CAOS. This post will function as a Complete Guide through the jungle that is called GDPR Compliance.
Leverage Browser Caching by Hosting Analytics Locally with Monster Insights’ WordPress Plugin
It’s a great performance boost for your website to host analytics.js locally. This helps you leverage browser caching, get a perfect 100/100 score on Pagespeed and Pingdom and raise conversion.
An average blog can locally host analytics.js without any fuss. If you’re in ecommerce (e.g. WooCommerce) things get tough, because hosting your Analytics file locally, usually means you can’t use most of Google’s Universal Analytics features.
Today I’m going to show you how you can easily host analytics.js locally, leverage browser caching and still profit from Universal Analytics’ advanced features.
How to Host Analytics.js Locally with CAOS and Cookie Notice for GDPR
CAOS has been around for a few years now, bathing in all of the glory it accumulated by hosting analytics.js locally. About two months ago, our lives are enriched by the new GDPR laws. For me, it meant getting back to work and make sure CAOS is GDPR compliant as well. I’ve introduced many changes since then. One of the major new features though, is complete compatibility with other Cookie Notice plugins for WordPress. By far the most popular is Cookie Notice for GDPR. Today I will show you how to configure CAOS to work with this plugin. So you can host analytics.js locally and be GDPR compliant at the same time!