One of the worst feelings in the world can be getting a notification or seeing for yourself that your site has been compromised. It could be that you received a notification from Google, or a report from one of your users that your site is behaving strangely. It may even be a notification from WP Engine that we’ve detected malware on your site.… Read more

Want to know how to Serve Scaled Images and Optimize Your Images? We’ll show you how! As a conclusion to our What Does Optimizing Images Mean? post, we’ll show you how to actually solve your image optimization woes. This walkthrough is general enough to apply to most websites and platforms. NOTE: This is just one way to scale and compress your images.… Read more

A step-by-step guide on how to optimize your WordPress installation. Overview Many of our users run WordPress either as a CMS or blog platform. With a lot of great plugins available, it’s easy to create a full-featured website with a lot of neat functionality. These plugins however, can insert additional CSS and JavaScript files into your header which can hurt your site’s performance (and PageSpeed and YSlow scores). How does your WordPress site score? Analyze We’ve listed some plugins and written some recommendations for our WordPress users seeking optimization help. Note: These plugins address mainly front-end optimization issues only.… Read more

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Serving scaled images is one of the most overlooked ways to deliver a better site performance. Are your images holding your site back? Images take up a lot of file size space, especially if they’re bloated and oversized. That’s why images should be number one on your list of things to optimize if you’re trying to improve page speed, conversions or sales. In this post we’re going to focus on how to serve scaled images with WordPress.… Read more