Few improvements to a website’s speed compare with reducing the file size of images. And if quality can be maintained, it’s a no-brainer to let 10 megabytes do the work of 100. It’s estimated that images account for about half of a webpage’s file size, so even minor tweaks can yield big results. That’s where…
Category: Web Development
Pros and Cons of the Most Popular API Authentication Methods
Application Programming Interfaces, or APIs, can handle enormous amounts of data. The type of data can be pretty much anything, such as a product’s information and specifications, a user’s email address and phone number, the credit card used for a transaction, or a person’s social security number. Because APIs are used to handle publicly available…
WordPress 5.8 Brings Full Site Editing in Gutenberg, Numerous New Blocks, and More
WordPress 5.8 was released on July 20. This is the second release of the year and it is chock-full of new features. The most notable update involves the continued roll-out for Full Site Editing within the Gutenberg editor. Some major highlights include: tons of new theme blocks like the Query Loop Block, the ability to…
Boost Your Core Web Vitals Score by Reducing Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) On Your Site
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 –…