I independently help agencies, e-commerce and websites to obtain Core Web Vitals and performance knowledge and results.
Erwin Hofman was proud to be asked to become a GDE. Mostly because it helps him help his clients even more:
We turned a custom solution that I used for client-audits into a monitoring solution for the public. So everyone can learn more about their auditions and Core Web Vitals after deploys.
"I" changed into "we", as cases and clients grew over time and we became a team. Already in Q1 2021, we celebrated the onboarding of:
It was not until 2015 that the developer Erwin Hofman dared to share his knowledge in front of others, talking about:
I started my own agency EH (short for Erwin Hofman) in 2005 and renamed it to Blue 2 Blond in 2008, nowadays with developers all having their own expertise.
After some years of PHP and a lot of non-technical requests, I, Erwin Hofman, created the first draft of the LightBolt CMS in my clients' quest for lean and fast websites.
The training is valuable for the whole team. No standard lists, but real practical knowledge that you can apply immediately. We have applied the acquired knowledge directly to our customers with great success.
We had in-depth study of the Core Web Vitals. Through an interesting session, our knowledge has been supplemented with developer insights. Erwin combined the theoretical aspects with many practical tips.
As an SEO team we always try to keep developing and increasing knowledge. Erwin's pagespeed and Core Web Vitals training has helped us very well. Very informative and valuable looking at the upcoming ranking update.
In just 1.5 hours he covered so many different aspects of frontend optimization. I suggest his training and consultancy for other agencies as you will become a 100% PRO in speed optimization.
In terms of SEO, I have a high standard. Working together with our devs, Erwin got us past Core Web Vitals and putting our SEO and UX high within our niche.
Got up to speed by Erwin about the CWV. Erwin is capable of explaining this technical matter in a comprehensible way, including the link between metrics and real UX.
Erwin, the proud Groninger who conquered the Netherlands with all his (technical) page speed and UX optimizations. The collaboration is great!
Very satisfied with the update, Erwin knows what he is doing diving right into matters. This can also be seen in our new PageSpeed score of 90+ on mobile.
We enjoyed the in-house training. Erwin combined the session with a high level of knowledge and smart coding solutions! We started optimizing right after the session.
Erwin helped our SEO and development team tremendously during an in-house pagespeed session. He comes up with practical advices that our SEOs and web developers could immediately put into practice.
At first there was some doubt within the team about the necessity, but that doubt was completely gone after half an hour. I can only say that we have learned a lot from the training, lifting our team to a higher level.
Thank you very much for the Core Web Vitals training, that was very good / Yeah, that was worth every penny, and every minute.
We all found it extremely useful and lots of notes have been taken. It was great to watch someone with so much knowledge in this area. We look forward to the next steps.
In Dutch, the name Erwin Hofman is pronounced as ərwin hofmän.
The name Erwin could be both German or English. Erwin means Sailor friend, although based on other resources, the first syllable could also mean honour or eagle. The name Erwin became popular in 1960, although in 2019 only 25 new borns were named Erwin.
The name Hofman by origin is German. Traditionally, Hofman means peasant landowner (“Hof” in German). Hofman is the 19,765th most common surname in the world and this specific orthography is most used in The Netherlands, around 10,500 times.
Above statistics doesn't make the name Erwin Hofman unique. Erwin Hofman occurs around 15 times, often within the same age group but within different working areas.
We would then not be having sitespeed issues or webshop frustrations. Moreover, you would not find any (WP) sitespeed related search results when you tried Googling it 😜 However, a society full of people with OCD would probably clash somehow, as we can only handle a certain amount of rules and tidiness, even when it comes to website code.
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