Website Speed

Step-by-step guides on how to improve your website’s performance. Learn how to speed up your WordPress hosting, find out how to test website speed, and what impact using LiteSpeed hosting can have.

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Website Speed

Pingdom: the definitive guide

Pingdom Website Speed Test is among the most popular tools for analyzing the speed of a website. Like GTmetrix, Pingdom […]

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SSD hosting: what are the advantages?

What does SSD hosting mean? Can the new storage technology really make a difference and affect the performance of your […]

Website Speed

GTmetrix: the definitive guide

GTmetrix is a tool that allows us to test the speed of websites. Among all the tools designed for this […]

Website Speed

Speed up WordPress: pages in 1 second

In this article, we will see how to speed up WordPress in a few simple steps and optimize the performance […]

Website Speed

LiteSpeed and LSCache: the definitive guide

In this article, we’re going to see what LiteSpeed is, how it’s used and what kind of performance we can […]

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Optimizilla: compress images and photos online

The speed of your website is important, whether you’re using WordPress or other CMS for your website. That’s why, after […]

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Is Woocommerce slow?

How many products can I manage without affecting the performance of WooCommerce ? What if I have a product with […]

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WordPress image optimizer: the definitive guide

On SupportHost we focus on the performance of your site, so after explaining how to speed up WordPress this article […]

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Do plugins slow down wordpress?

In this article, we are going to see how much WordPress plugins affect your website’s loading time, how to identify […]

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Why is important to have a fast website

The performance of your website influences visitors, conversions and its ranking on Google. In this article, we’ll look at a […]

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