Wordpress Caching

Wordpress Caching

Case Study: The Twelve-Second Homepage

A Melbourne optometry practice's Wordpress site took around twelve seconds to become usable on mobile. With no staging, a redesign already in progress, and a live ad-campaign landing page that couldn't go down, I made reversible, measured changes that cut server response by 70% and halved the page weight, then tested one 'obvious' deeper win thoroughly enough to correctly defer it to the redesign.

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Wordpress Caching

Case Study: The Overcached Website

A marketing agency's WordPress sites had a strange trick: adding ?1 to the URL would fix the broken CSS. Underneath was a stack of caching plugins and a premium CDN all fighting each other — and the fix wasn't to add another layer, but to take layers away.

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