Intro One of my subscribers, Bruce, suggested making access to my articles in a downloadable format (e.g. PDF). And I thought it was finally time to do it this way or the other. I had considered making downloadable PDFs before. But the tools (plugins) which automatically turn the blog posts and the pages into PDF files did not work very well for me. Mostly because I did not want … [Read more...]
How to Make a Blog Post Downloadable (e.g. PDF) With Easy Editing Option And No Duplicate Content For Free
June 17, 2019 By
Hosting Performance Contest – May 2019 Roundup (15 Hosts Tested: Healthier)
June 3, 2019 By
Here's the 40th Monthly Hosting Performance Contest Roundup for May 2019! I've been testing 15 hosts in a non-stop manner the whole month and I'll show you the results below. In general, this contest's results can be described as "More hosts succeeded with benchmark level set for great hosting". By the way, you can find the latest roundups here and the performance tables and charts … [Read more...]
The Uncomfortable Truth About Testing Website Speed And Hosting Speed
May 17, 2019 By
Intro I’ve seen many times how bloggers test website speed or hosting speed. And it makes me sad. It’s sad because the way they test it does not make sense. And it gives no value to the readers. There are two problems: The first problem is that most people run the speed tests just once or maybe a couple of times. The results of such “testing” are misleading and do more harm than … [Read more...]
Hosting Performance Contest – April 2019 Roundup (15 Hosts Tested: Tighter)
May 2, 2019 By
Here's the 39th Monthly Hosting Performance Contest Roundup for April 2019! I've been testing 15 hosts in a non-stop manner the whole month and I'll show you the results below. In general, this contest's results can be described as "Tighter performance among the hosts". By the way, you can find the latest roundups here and the performance tables and charts here. All monitored hosts are … [Read more...]
WordPress Dashboard Freezes. CPU Load 100%. How You Can Fix This Baby.
April 17, 2019 By
Recently I had to solve the problem with my WordPress site. After logging in into my WordPress website my WP dashboard became non responsive, i.e. not available, it froze. And my website became much-much slower for visitors. It was a challenge that I love. It was the issue that I could not catch for some heck of a time during that day. But I knew it was somewhere close. “Catch me if you can” … [Read more...]
Protect Your WP Site From Hacking Step-by-Step – Easy And Very Effective
April 9, 2019 By
Introduction No one wants to wake up one morning and see that his or her website was hacked. You don't want that, do you? Lost data, lost money, headache and lots of time spent on your website recovery - it's not the full list of the 'pleasures' that you can get literally in any second, even while you are reading these lines right now (at least 1,250 sites are hacked every hour). I've written … [Read more...]
Hosting Performance Contest – March 2019 Roundup (15 Hosts Tested: Better Mids)
April 3, 2019 By
Here's the 38th Monthly Hosting Performance Contest Roundup for March 2019! I've been testing 15 hosts in a non-stop manner the whole month and I'll show you the results below. In general, this contest's results can be described as "There are more 100% uptime hosts this month". 100% uptime is not easy to achieve and so this is a good month. By the way, you can find the latest roundups here and … [Read more...]
SiteGround Has Bad Server Response Time Or Time To First Byte? Results After 16 Mln Tests
March 18, 2019 By
Some time ago one of my readers asked me to comment on his concern that someone says SiteGround had a bad Time To First Byte (TTFB) which is also meant as Server Response Time. Since I’ve been monitoring Server Response Time, hosting speed and uptime 24/7/365 of 15 shared hosts including SiteGround since 2016, I’ve got something to say. To be as specific as possible, I’ve taken the whole year … [Read more...]
Hosting Performance Contest – February 2019 Roundup (15 Hosts Tested: More 100% Uptime)
March 4, 2019 By
Here's the 37th Monthly Hosting Performance Contest Roundup for February 2019! I've been testing 15 hosts in a non-stop manner the whole month and I'll show you the results below. In general, this contest's results can be described as "There are more 100% uptime hosts this month". 100% uptime is not easy to achieve and so this is a good month. By the way, you can find the latest roundups here … [Read more...]
Server Response Time And Time To First Byte (TTFB) To Estimate Hosting Speed? 16.5 Mln Tests In 2018
February 18, 2019 By
Intro When people want to estimate hosting speed, they often use Server Response Time or Time To First Byte (TTFB) value. Whereas they should use Full Page Load Time metric. And In this post I show you the data collected during the whole 2018 year on how fast the hosts were and how their speed is connected with Server Response Time (or Time To First Byte (TTFB) to be more … [Read more...]