What Is the Best CMS for SEO?
Is WordPress the best CMS for SEO? Compare WordPress, Webflow, Shopify, Squarespace and AI website builders for speed, technical control and SEO.
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Reduce Page Weight
One of the best ways to reduce your website's load time is to reduce the number of requested files. That includes fonts, CSS, JavaScript, and media files.
Read Reduce Page Weight →What is Transfer Size?
What is transfer size and why should you measure it? For that matter, how do you measure your website's transfer size? Transfer size refers to the amount of data that needs to be transmitted from a web server to a browser (or a robot) when loading a web page. Naturally, the smaller you can make the transfer size, the better.
Read What is Transfer Size? →What does Interaction to Next Paint (INP) Measure?
What interactions are measured as part of Interaction to Next Paint? Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is a Core Web Vital metric that measures how quickly a webpage responds to user interactions. It measures the time between the start of the interaction and the first visual update resulting from that interaction.
Read What does Interaction to Next Paint (INP) Measure? →Average Response Time
How fast can Google crawl your website? You can find out in the Google Search Console Crawl Stats reports using the average response time. To access Crawl Stats, open up your website in Google Search Console.
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Rendering is how the browser converts all the files it has received from the server into a functioning webpage. What are render blocking resources?
Read Render Blocking Resources →Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) vs. First Contentful Paint (FCP)
How do Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) and First Contentful Paint (FCP) relate? Is LCP more important than FCP? Let's break down what these metrics actually mean and why they both matter for SEO and UX.
Read Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) vs. First Contentful Paint (FCP) →What are preload, prefetch, fetchpriority preconnect?
What are preload, prefetch, preconnect, dns-prefetch, and fetchpriority? When should they be used? All of these tell the browser to prioritize and fetch resources in advance, but they differ in when and how they work.
Read What are preload, prefetch, fetchpriority preconnect? →What is the video poster attribute?
How do you improve LCP when the LCP element is a video? By default, LCP is measured when the first frame of the video is presented. Some videos, especially third-party videos, can take a long time to load.
Read What is the video poster attribute? →Speed Metrics Timeline
There are a lot of metrics to describe speed. It can be tough to remember what all of the metrics are and how they relate to each other.
Read Speed Metrics Timeline →Consolidate JavaScript or CSS Files
A typical speed recommendation is to consolidate (or concatenate) multiple JavaScript or CSS files into a single file. Does this still make sense? The idea is that consolidating multiple files into a single file reduces how many requests need to be made when the browser/robot is loading a webpage.
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What is a fallback image? How do you implement a fallback image with srcset in an img or picture tag?
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