PageSpeed Insights sends no cookies and never logs in, so it misses the slowest WordPress problems. Six of them, with the commands to measure each and the smallest fix.
Performance11 min read
A 95 percent hit rate can hide the requests your cache was never allowed to see. How to measure the real bypass rate from logs and headers, find the cookie causing it, and rewrite the rules narrowly without serving one shopper's cart to another.
Performance11 min read
100k members polling unread counts every 30 seconds is roughly 3,300 COUNT queries per second. Without a persistent object cache that is all real queries, and rate limiting stops being enforced at all while still appearing configured. How to check, what to install, and how it breaks later.
Performance8 min read
WordPress SSL/TLS performance guide covering OCSP stapling, TLS 1.3 cipher config, session resumption, HTTP/2 setup, FORCE_SSL_ADMIN, mixed content fixes, and Cloudflare Full Strict mode.
Performance7 min read
PHP-FPM tuning guide for WordPress: how to calculate pm.max_children from actual memory usage, set spare server counts, configure request timeouts, and monitor pool health.
How To7 min read
WordPress .htaccess optimization covering Gzip compression with mod_deflate, browser caching via mod_expires, ETag removal, security rules, hotlink protection, and XML-RPC blocking.
Performance7 min read
Complete Nginx FastCGI cache setup for WordPress: cache zone config, logged-in user bypass, WooCommerce exclusions, purge on publish, and HIT/MISS header debugging.
How To7 min read
MySQL tuning guide for WordPress covering innodb_buffer_pool_size, max_connections, thread_cache_size, tmp_table_size, slow query log, and a complete my.cnf configuration.
Database Optimization7 min read
OPcache configuration guide for WordPress covering memory_consumption, max_accelerated_files, revalidate_freq, JIT settings, and how to verify hit rate on production.
How To7 min read
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