Publication
WP Rocket
Core Web Vitals, up close. Performance budgets, Interaction to Next Paint, and the cost of third-party scripts.
8 entries
Everything filed under WP Rocket
- Case study Explaining web performance to WP Rocket’s readers while Google changed the metrics WP Rocket needed guides its readers could act on while Google and GTmetrix changed how speed gets scored.
- Published Nginx Caching for WordPress: An Introduction and Tutorial Introduces Nginx and its FastCGI cache module, then gives 3 ways to use that cache on WordPress, through a host that runs it, SpinupWP, or… (opens elsewhere)
- Published GTmetrix Updates its Algorithm to Use Google’s Lighthouse Metrics Covers the GTmetrix update that swaps its PageSpeed and YSlow scores for Google’s Lighthouse metrics, including Core Web Vitals, and… (opens elsewhere)
- Published Best PHP Accelerators for WordPress in 2026 Explains how PHP accelerators cache opcode and why PHP’s built-in OPcache is the one to use for WordPress, then installs and configures it… (opens elsewhere)
- Published Web Performance Budget: What It Is + How to Set and Measure It Takes the vague request to “make the site faster” and turns it into numbers you can actually manage, with limits your design and business… (opens elsewhere)
- Published Redis Full-Page Cache vs NGINX FastCGI Cache for WordPress Puts Redis full-page cache and NGINX FastCGI cache through stress tests on the same WordPress server, with setup steps for each and a… (opens elsewhere)