The 80:20 of Improving WordPress Speed

I’ve mentioned on this blog many times before that fast load times are critical for a WordPress website. It’s a bad user experience to have a slow website, it reflects poorly on your brand, bounce rate goes up, engagement, conversion and sales go down. Plus Google is obsessed with speed, so the faster the site the better the Google rankings. …

Shopify vs WordPress: Pros and Cons

WordPress has been the dominant website CMS platform now for many years, but one area where competitors have gained serious traction is with online stores. In the early days of WordPress, the platform was primarily known as a popular content management system (CMS) for creating blogs and websites. While it had some ecommerce capabilities through plugins and themes, it was …