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Applicable to: Plesk for Linux Applicable to: Plesk for Linux Question How to enable leverage browser caching (cache expiration) for nginx? Answer Warning: it will not work if Serve static files ...

By default, Nginx doesn't enable gzip compression for serving files. This is commonly used to reduce the filesize of CSS and Javascript files, if they haven't been minified or pre-compressed. This guide will show you how to enable it per site for a Plesk 12.5 or Onyx based server.

We tested the performance of 20+ platforms/configurations (WordPress, Drupal, Joomla!) on 5 different engines (PHP 5.6, 7.0, 7.1, HHVM) and PHP 7.2 took the gold in 14 of 20 tests. Check out these 2018 benchmarks.

Load your WordPress pages much faster by using HTTP/2 push to send your first-time visitors’ browsers all the assets before they know about them. Here’s how you can HTTP/2 push WordPress assets to your first-time visitors.

In chatting with other developers, many identify why HTTP/2 is something to be excited about but are unsure how to optimize their applications to take advantage of it. This article should make that mo…

We’ve talked a lot about WordPress performance and hosting WordPress here at Delicious Brains. A common theme amongst those articles is the importance of page caching and how it’s arguably the best wa…

Who delivers the world's fastest WordPress hosting? Flywheel vs WP Engine vs Bluehost vs Media Temple vs Pressable or StudioPress Sites? Updated results.

Perhaps you've heard of HTTP/2? It's not just an idea, it's a real technology and slowly but surely, hosting companies and CDN services have been releasing

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) has been around since 1991, and we haven’t seen a major update since 1999, when HTTP/1.1 was released. During this time a lot of performance best practices have been...

Wordpress is estimated to account for roughly 25% of all websites online today. With Page Rules you ...

Yep, you read that right: I got a 1311% speed boost when I set up Cloudways managed cloud hosting on my server combined with our Hummingbird and Smush Pro plugins. Woah, right? And I got that result...

How many times have you come across an article which suggests ways to make your WordPress website fa...

It's an exciting time in the WordPress community, with the release of Calypso, a successful inaugura...

We take an in-depth look at CloudFlare and MaxCDN, and explain both how these services can help webs...