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Website speed optimisation, Core Web Vitals, and performance best practices.

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Speed affects everything. Google uses it as a ranking signal. Visitors bounce from slow pages. Conversion rates drop measurably for every extra second of load time. And performance problems tend to compound: one slow plugin cascades into a slow page, which cascades into lost revenue.

We write about performance from the full-stack perspective: server-level tuning, application-level optimisation, front-end delivery, and the metrics that tell you whether your changes actually made a difference.

Hosting 7 Mar 2026

Saying Things Are Dead... Is Dead

Every week someone on LinkedIn announces the death of SEO, websites, or WordPress. The internet has been dying since 2005 and yet here we all still are. Meanwhile, the real conversion killer is painfully boring: your hosting is too slow.

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Hosting 15 Dec 2025

PHP 8.1 End of Life: What Happened Next and Why Millions Are Still Exposed

PHP 8.1 reached end-of-life on 31 December 2025. Four months on, WP Cloud, Pagely, and WordPress VIP have force-migrated their customers, but roughly 55% of the top million PHP sites are still running an EOL version. Here's what happened, what the host-driven upgrades actually broke, and how to get off PHP 8.1 now if you haven't already.

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WordPress 9 Dec 2025

WordPress 6.9 Caching Bug Crashes Servers: Fix Guide

WordPress 6.9 changed cache key generation, breaking every major caching plugin and causing CPU spikes, stale content, and TTFB increases. The bug was patched in 6.9.1. Sites on 6.9.1 or newer no longer see the issue. Workaround steps preserved for the historical record.

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Hosting 8 Dec 2025

PHP 8.5: 3 WordPress Speed Boosts That Actually Matter

PHP 8.5 launched 20 November 2025. Four months on, the 12-14% speed improvements have held up across hundreds of production WordPress sites. Here are the three features driving the gains: pipe operator, improved JIT, and readonly class improvements.

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