Using Google PageSpeed Insights to Gauge Site Performance

As you may imagine, there are countless variables that go into making a successful website. Between design, search engine optimization, and technical performance, it can occasionally be difficult to know exactly where a website excels and where it falls short. Fortunately, Google has a tool made to quickly gives you a snapshot of your site’s…

Just What Are Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)?

Google recently released its Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) project, an architectural framework for making mobile websites faster. The goal is to make web pages load nearly instantly on mobile devices. This is primarily done by limiting what you can do on these web pages. AMP HTML In order to standardize these limitations, a new subset…

Bold Predictions 2016

2016 is just hours away. This time last year our team took a chance, we put our egos on the line and made a few Bold Predictions for the coming year. As you may have guessed, some of these predictions did indeed miss the mark a bit: 2015 is going to be the year of…

WordCamp US and the Future of WordPress

Last week, myself and RC Lations, travelled to Philadelphia to participate at WordCamp US. For those who don’t know, WordCamp US was the largest gathering of WordPress users and professionals on record, with over 1,800 attendees. In addition to meeting some of the most intelligent and influential people in the WordPress community, a highlight of…