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Wicked Tshirts Shop
16 Jun 26

WooCommerce Reports Page Speed

Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links, meaning I may earn a small commission if you purchase via my links, without extra cost to you; my reviews and recommendat WooCommerce's Analytics dashboard (Marketing → WooCommerce → Analytics, or the legacy Reports tab on older installs) is one of the slowest screens…
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Montgomery Gentry rocks Humphreys
16 Jun 26

HTTP/2 vs HTTP/3 Performance Per Host

HTTP/3 runs over QUIC instead of TCP, which changes how connections establish and how they behave under packet loss. The theoretical benefits are well documented, but the real question for choosing a host is whether HTTP/3 support at the server level actually translates into a measurable speed difference for a…
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President Cyril Ramaphosa to visit the National Coronavirus COVID-19 Information Response Centre
16 Jun 26

Brotli vs Gzip Compression Tests

Text compression is one of the few performance levers that's almost entirely up to your host rather than your theme or plugins — and Brotli vs. Gzip is the specific choice that determines how much smaller your HTML, CSS, and JS get before they're sent over the wire. Here's what…
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16 Jun 26

Image Optimization Hosting-Side Tests

Image weight is still the single biggest lever most sites have over page load time, but “optimize your images” gets treated as a one-time task rather than something hosting-side infrastructure actively affects on an ongoing basis. This piece tests what actually changes when image optimization is handled at the hosting/server…
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Montgomery Gentry rocks Humphreys
16 Jun 26

Theme Performance Impact Across Hosts

WordPress powers over 43% of all websites on the internet, operating on a modular theme and plugin ecosystem that grants site owners complete design flexibility. However, theme selection represents one of the most critical structural determinants of frontend website performance, page load speed, and server resource consumption. A poorly coded,…
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President Cyril Ramaphosa to visit the National Coronavirus COVID-19 Information Response Centre
16 Jun 26

Plugin Bloat Impact: Same Host Tests

“Plugin bloat” is usually diagnosed by counting active plugins, which is a weak signal — a single badly-written plugin firing an unindexed database query on every page load will do more damage than twenty lightweight, well-coded ones combined. This piece runs a controlled test: same host, same base WordPress install,…
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VIA ARTiGO A2000 Barebone Storage Server
16 Jun 26

Database Indexing: Default Settings

Most managed hosting plans ship a database (MySQL/MariaDB or Postgres, depending on the stack) with sensible-but-generic default indexing on the tables their own control panel or CMS installer creates. What they don't do is index the tables and columns your application actually queries — that's on you. We tested default…
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Our Troublesome servers
16 Jun 26

Database Limit Walls: Concurrent Sites

Disclosure: figures below come from documented host support pages and MySQL's own defaults, not our own load-testing rig — where we couldn't find a host's published number, we say so instead of guessing. “How many concurrent connections can my database handle?” only matters once you're running more than one site…
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Network Storage Server: VIA NSD7800 (front view)
16 Jun 26

phpMyAdmin Performance Per Host

Disclosure: this is an access-and-workflow comparison, not a raw speed benchmark — “performance” here means how much friction is between you and running a query, which varies more by access model than by server hardware. phpMyAdmin itself performs about the same everywhere — it's a PHP application rendering table data,…
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16 Jun 26

Database Region Latency Tests

Database latency is one of the most overlooked variables in “why is my site slow in this country” complaints. Server region gets picked for the web server, but the database region — especially with managed database add-ons and multi-region CDNs — doesn't always get the same attention. We ran region-to-region…
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