Load event listener ignored by WP Rocket RocketLazyLoadScripts
While investigating a site-speed anomaly, I discovered a critical bug that was silently breaking performance monitoring for potentially many WordPress sites.
Pagespeed findings
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Do not use WP Rocket preconnect feature
This is a heads-up when using latest WP Rocket (13.9) on your WP or WooCommerce site. Preconnecting to third parties now comes out of the box, but comes with a sitespeed trade-off.
Improving WordPress performance: an open letter
WordPress started a performance team to improve its Core Web Vitals scores. I read their pagespeed optimization spreadsheet and boy do I have an opinion regarding their performance backlog.
Why Wordpress is not correct to blame jQuery for bad pagespeed
Wordpress recently wrote about the performance impact of jQuery, but it seems like they are choosing to not call out the real pagespeed bottleneck.
Wordpress is lacking behind and starts a performance team
It's happening. Wordpress is finally going to focus on performance. But why now, and will it succeed?
How Brian Dean's Backlinko acted on Core Web Vitals
I wrote about the Backlinko results in November 2019 on LinkedIn, tagging Brian as well. But it looks like Brian already put some effort into the pagespeed of his website. As a result, he is now passing Core Web Vitals.
Accessible Wordpress themes for WCAG 2.1 websites
Some (WP) agencies are really into accessibility. However, when you do support accessibility as a developer, but not really pay close attention, there is a big chance you are unknowingly building inaccessible Wordpress websites for your clients.