Last month, I took action to correct the ultra-slow loading time of my blog. I cleaned up the site and used a few plugins to improve the performance. I went from a “D” score to a middle “B” according to Google’s PageSpeed Insights. Most importantly, the load time according to Pingdom went from 13.6 seconds to 0.914 seconds. This is a huge improvement, and I am delighted by the results. I covered the steps I went through in my March…
My self-hosted WordPress website was slow. Google Analytics Site Speed showed page load times fluctuating from 8 to over 15 seconds. I know that anything over 2 seconds is bad and results in lower traffic and search engine referrals. I have put up with this slowness for years, but now I need to address this problem. I spent time with Google searching and reading about WordPress settings, plugins, content delivery networks (CDNs), and web host configurations that are designed to improve…
Today, I was just speaking with a colleague about one of the “victims” of the NSA data “scandal.” It is the cloud providers. All of these cloud-based providers have got to be ‘just thrilled’ with the negative publicity online services are currently receiving with this concern over privacy and government monitoring. I will be honest; it is made me even a little more cautious about my review and selection of cloud and SaaS providers because I too am concerned about…
The other day I was ranting about privacy in the digital age. The public does not fully comprehend the potential positive or negative impact of cloud services on their lives; how the information they choose to share and store inside of those systems lives and dies; or how a data breach will affect their personal privacy. However, that is only part of the equation since it deals with a failure inside of one of these commercial entities. And let’s be…
