Everyone else measures theme performance using GT Metrix. If you go do a Google search now for ‘fastest WordPress themes’ or similar, you’ll find EVERY ‘review’ is just measuring GT Metrix or Pingdom scores. These scores only tell you client-side performance. If you want to skip the bullshit, you can go check prices for the Rehub theme […]
The Foundthru site has been built to demonstrate the functionality and performance of the various plugins available from www.wpintense.com. Key Facts FoundThru contains over 800,000 affiliated products This server is a $40 per month Digital Ocean server The server stack is the Rocket Stack The site is uncached so you can see and feel the raw […]
There’s a new update for Scalability Pro out. It includes two new options to further optimise the scalability of your website. Replacing LEFT JOINs with WHERE EXISTS Scalability Pro now includes a new option in the settings page to attempt to rewrite WP_Query LEFT JOINs to use WHERE EXISTS instead. For those of you who […]
Over the 2 years of running WP Intense, I’ve had many questions from clients asking to review the performance of their website. In this article I’ll cover the most common issues and the easiest solutions to solve your performance and scalability. Uncached versus Cached Performance and TTFB Firstly, it’s important to understand why uncached performance […]
The very first version of Super Speedy Search is finally here. It’s still in beta, so it’s still not quite ready for production use (depends on your use case) but it’s good, it’s fast, and it searches products in super speedy fashion. As promised, everyone who has previously purchased Scalability Pro gets this plugin for […]
Finally! I’ve been busy coding, testing, fixing, and re-testing to get Scalability Pro streamlined to make it easier for me to help you solve all your WordPress scalability issues. If you’ve been following the updates, you’ll be aware this was due to be released yesterday (and before that I had it pencilled in too!), but […]
I’ve been working hard on the latest version of Scalability Pro to bring improved performance to you all for a wider range of plugins you have installed. But towards the end of my work, as I was trying to solidify the user interface to make it super easy to use, I realised something that needs […]
If you’ve used tools like Pingdom, Google Page Speed Insights or GT Metrix, you’ll have seen that they can help figure out why ‘front-end’ performance of your site is slow. Front-end performance includes all the stuff that happens on the users browser. It doesn’t include things like PHP execution time or MySQL query time – […]
There’s a new update available for Scalability Pro. We’re now up to version 3.1. Fixes include: Performance improvements on your WordPress backend Fixed a ‘css bleeding’ issue which was causing hover buttons to look weird Finished the ‘local storage’ option for WooCommerce archives – previously called ‘load products with ajax’, this option now works perfectly […]
Hi everyone – I’m sorry I haven’t communicated much the past two weeks. I’ve been busy setting up a couple of teams to help me get through the various features people are asking for with each of the popular plugins. This update is to let you know what is happening and when you can expect upgrades. Price […]