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Use SVG Icons To Speed Up Your Website

July 30, 2019 by Vanessa H
Optimize Speed with SVG Icons

Speed up your website load time by only using the SVG icons that you need rather than downloading a full font file.

Categories Wordpress Performance Tags Font Awesome, svg 2 Comments

How To Choose The Perfect WordPress Web Host

July 29, 2019 by Vanessa H
Choosing a High Performance Web Host

Finding a great WordPress host can be difficult amidst all the services claiming to be number one. Here’s a guide on how to choose and my personal recommendation.

Categories Wordpress Hosting Tags Kinsta Leave a comment

Discover This Hidden WordPress Performance Gem

July 29, 2019July 28, 2019 by Vanessa H
WordPress Performance Gem - Plugin Organizer

A little known plugin that can dramatically improve the performance of your WordPress website.

Categories Wordpress Performance Tags Plugin Organizer, WordPress Plugins Leave a comment

Speed Up Image Load On Responsive Websites

July 26, 2019 by Vanessa H
Speed Up Image Load For Responsive Design WordPress Website

The easiest and fastest way to speed up image load on your WordPress website. One of the few techniques that works for responsively designed sites.

Categories Wordpress Performance Tags ShortPixel, ShortPixel Adapative Images, ShortPixel AI Leave a comment

Quitting the WP Engine Habit for Good

August 5, 2018December 27, 2015 by Vanessa H
Quitting WP Engine for Good

There are much better Wordpress hosts out there, here’s a story of finding an amazingly fast Wordpress host.

Categories Wordpress Hosting Tags WP Engine 9 Comments

Leaving WP Engine for the First Time

March 21, 2019November 24, 2015 by Vanessa H
Woman riding motorcycle with big grin on face

It started innocently enough. A little hiccup in one of the more popular sites I run. As page load time spiked to more than 15s I reached out to the WP Engine Support team to get it fixed. Page views had remained stable, and nothing significant had changed in my WordPress configuration. For weeks I …

Read moreLeaving WP Engine for the First Time

Categories Wordpress Performance Tags WP Engine 4 Comments

Android is Awful

December 30, 2015September 19, 2015 by Vanessa H
Android is awful

Android is awful. The Nexus 6 unboxing experience as enduring by an iPhone user.

Categories User Experience Design Tags Android 4 Comments

Leaving Chrome Behind

November 24, 2015June 3, 2015 by Vanessa H

Chrome was once the quintessential browser, yet many years of bloat have lead to it’s slow decline.

Categories Browsers Tags slow chrome 1 Comment

The difference between compromise and mediocrity

December 30, 2015June 1, 2015 by Vanessa H
The Difference Between Compromise and Mediocrity

Excellent products have compromises. So do mediocre ones. How do you tell which compromises will lead you to greatness?

Categories User Experience Design Tags designing great prodcuts, mediocre products Leave a comment

It’s More Than an Engineering Problem – Why Apple Pay will succeed

December 30, 2015September 15, 2014 by Vanessa H
Apple Pay will change the industry

To an engineer, any problem is an engineering problem. Unfortunately for Android NFC payments aren’t an engineering problem.

Categories Technology Strategy Tags applepay, iphone6, nexus4 Leave a comment
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