WordPress vs Static Site Generators: An Honest Comparison
Static generators and WordPress solve different problems. Here is where each one genuinely wins, and how modern caching stacks blur the line between them.
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Self-Hosting Web Fonts on WordPress, Step by Step
Downloading, subsetting, and preloading your own fonts removes a whole chain of external requests and gives you real control over how text paints, plus one less data handoff to a third party.
Courses on WordPress: The LMS Plugin Landscape
LMS plugins turn WordPress into a course platform, but lessons, quizzes, and video change what your hosting needs to handle. Here is what to know before you launch.
Lazy Loading Done Wrong Hurts LCP: Here’s the Right Way
Native lazy loading is great for images below the fold, but slap it on your hero image and you will tank your Largest Contentful Paint. Here is how to fix it properly.
Server Location Still Matters: Latency by the Numbers
Edge caching has changed a lot about how fast a WordPress site feels, but physics hasn't changed. Here's how to think about origin location, round-trip time, and where a CDN actually picks up the slack.
Anycast DNS: Why Your Nameserver Choice Affects Every Visit
DNS resolution happens before a single byte of your site loads, so how your nameservers are routed and cached has an outsized effect on real-world speed. Here is what anycast actually does, how to think about TTLs, and what you're paying for with premium DNS.
Do You Need an Image CDN? Resizing, WebP, and On-the-Fly Optimization
Image CDNs promise automatic resizing, format conversion, and edge delivery, but a good caching stack already handles a lot of this. Here is how to tell what you actually need and how to test it on your own pages.