If you're interested in SEO or use Google Search Console to check your pages rankings, you've probably already seen or heard about Core Web Vitals. Core Web Vitals are new metrics introduced and used by Google to measure the quality of the user experience on your site. But the main reason why you ...
How to Choose a fast WordPress Theme in 2023: Guide + Comparison (with detailed test)
Since I've been talking about WordPress site performance and speed optimization around here, I've often been asked if I know good, fast WordPress themes with quality code that doesn't load tons of useless JS and CSS slowing down the site. I have to say that I never knew what to answer... All the ...
WP image compressor plugins: Ewwww VS shortpixel VS smushit VS others
One of the key points to improve the loading speed and the Core Web Vitals of a WP site is the image optimization. Indeed, most of the data downloaded by the browsers of Internet users are actually images. It is therefore very important to optimize this type of file as much as possible. I have ...
Cloudflare: a free CDN to speed up your WordPress site
When we started writing our articles in French and English on our websites, we soon found ourselves confronted with a problem: Our websites are VERY slow from countries far away from Europe (Australia, USA, Asia...) That's pretty easy to understand. As the servers of our sites are located in France, ...
The best WordPress photo gallery plugin… and by far!
Adding a photo gallery to a blog post or web page is a very common need for many websites. By the way, if you take a look at our travel blog, you will find a gallery in almost all our articles ;) . But surprisingly, even if adding a photo gallery to an article should be easy, it took me years to ...
The complete guide to speed up your WordPress website in 2023
You have a Wordpress site that works but you have the impression that it is a little slow? You have searched for information on the web but you don't know where to start? Don't panic! Don't panic! In this guide you will find all the information you need to optimize the speed of your Wordpress ...
Toolbox to optimize and accelerate WordPress
If you have read our complete guide to optimize the speed of your Wordpress site (or our guide to improve Core Web Vitals on WP), you will probably have already heard about some tools that I will mention in this list, and others not yet. My goal on this page is to give you a list of quality tools or ...
Why and how to have responsive images on your WordPress site
With all the types and sizes of screens that now exist on our smartphones and computers, the topic of image optimization of a website has become quite complicated. In my last article I explained you how you could compress your images to reduce their weight while keeping a beautiful quality (you will ...
How to compress your images to improve the speed of your wordpress site
In general, a website contains a lot of images (Imagine that in 2019, images represent about 50% of the bandwidth on the web) and you may have read or heard that it is good practice to optimize the images on your site. But in concrete terms, why should you make the effort to reduce the size of your ...
Keyword research tool: long tail pro review
Our Novo-Media blog is brand new and in the coming months we will share with you many articles on topics such as social medias, web development but also our favorite: Organic Search. To start this series of articles about SEO we wanted first of all to introduce you a tool to search for keywords that ...
The Genesis framework from studiopress: a solid foundation for all our WordPress sites
Unless we have a very specific set of specifications, we use the CMS (content management system) Wordpress in most of our projects. In fact, Wordpress currently powers about 30% of all websites on the web (and it is growing all the time)! Thanks to this popularity, we know that this CMS has many ...