Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) is the measurement of unexpected movements on a page as new content loads. If you’ve ever visited a page and had what you were reading suddenly shift due to an image loading or a pop-up appearing, you’ve seen it in action. CLS is one of Google’s new Core Web Vitals –…
Month: June 2021
Enhance Your Local SEO as Brick and Mortar Businesses Reopen
People are gathering, and storefronts are opening at greater capacities. With this in mind, it is an ideal time to evaluate your local SEO strategy and develop a plan for improving your impact in local search. Below are three places where you can focus your efforts. Create Meaningful, Localized Content for Your Website One way…
Create Fast-Loading Custom Image Sizes for Your WordPress Theme
By default, WordPress automatically takes images uploaded to the media library and generates additional sizes of your image: thumbnail, medium, and large, with the option to add custom sizes. While you can edit those sizes in Settings->Media, as you develop your theme, you’ll surely create components that utilize images at specific sizes. The sizes of…
8 Form Filtering Techniques to Reduce Spam Entries
Nobody likes spam. It is obnoxious, annoying, and a waste of time. Unfortunately, anyone with a website that contains a form has had to deal with it at some point. It doesn’t matter what the form is for—lead generation, customer service or a simple newsletter signup—there will always be spam submissions. In this post we…