3 minutes readKey takeaways Users judge speed in the first couple of seconds, and most sites lose them there. Slowness is usually a handful of large assets rather than a systemic problem. Measure before assuming; the obvious culprit is often not the cause. Have you ever entered a website and realized how slow things move, you just… Read more »
3 minutes readKey takeaways Images are usually the largest thing on a page and the easiest to fix. Modern formats and correct dimensions cut weight without visible quality loss. Set width and height so late-loading images do not shift the layout. At LoadFocus, we’ve implemented an easy way to monitor the rendering of websites on desktop and… Read more »
5 minutes readKey takeaways An average hides the slow tail, and the tail is what users complain about. p95 and p99 describe the experience of your least fortunate users. Report a percentile with the median; the mean alone can hide a serious problem. Why Performance Testing We all want our websites to be responsive and useful. However,… Read more »
3 minutes readKey takeaways SEO monitoring catches silent breakage: a noindex shipped by accident, or a redirect chain. Alerts matter more than dashboards, because these failures are invisible until traffic drops. Watch the handful of pages that bring traffic rather than every URL you own. SEO is very important for your website, it brings customers to your… Read more »
2 minutes readKey takeaways Depth in one area beats shallow familiarity with every tool. Learning to read systems and ask better questions outlasts any framework. Automation is a skill within testing, not a replacement for knowing what to test. Software Testing is hard. It involves hard work and dedication in learning the product, but also a huge… Read more »
4 minutes readKey takeaways Most WordPress slowness comes from plugins and unoptimised images, not the core. Caching plus image optimisation covers the majority of the available gain. Audit plugins periodically. Each one adds queries and assets to every page. We managed to get a 99/100 Performance Score with Google Lighthouse, check the details below how we did… Read more »
4 minutes readKey takeaways Homebrew is the quickest install and keeps JMeter updatable. The archive download is the fallback when you need a specific version. Most install problems are a missing or mismatched Java version. When starting with Apache JMeter for performance testing the first step you need to take is to install JMeter on your development… Read more »
