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WordPress Performance Optimization & Why It Matters
It's been over seven years since Google announced that website performance would have an impact on search engine ranking. Since then, they've doubled down and put a greater emphasis on mobile performance. There's a wide body of business case research that shows huge...
Does The Divi Static CSS Update Deliver?
Last week, Elegant Themes (ET) released an update for their popular Divi theme and Divi builder plugin that introduced a significant new feature; static CSS file generation. They claim that going away from inline CSS and generating a static CSS file will...
What’s New With WordPress & Barrel Roll: June, 2017
WordPress 4.8 The latest version of WordPress was recently released and has been applied to all member sites without issue. This appears to have been a bit more polished than 4.7 which had a few minor upgrade issues. Theme and plugin developers were also more prepared...
The Best WordPress Image Optimization Plugins Tested & Compared
Here at Barrel Roll, we have members in a wide array of industries but one thing they all have in common is the need to have their websites perform at peak levels. When we do our initial assessments we nearly always find that there is image optimization to be done and...
Google Search Console: Can You Trust Those Numbers?
It seems like Google is constantly adding functionality in Google Search Console (GSC), the tool webmasters use to make sure Google is properly indexing their sites and troubleshoot issues. More and more it has been a vital tool, but one question has always nagged us:...
Hello, WordPress 4.7!
It seems like we were just talking about WordPress 4.6, and now 4.7 has arrived. Time doesn't appear to stand still. The new version of WordPress, named "Vaughan" after Jazz legend Sarah Vaughan, brings a few significant improvements and a new theme. Twenty Seventeen...
