Performance

Measuring and Interpreting Website Performance Changes

How to compare website performance tests, recognize normal variation, and decide whether a measured improvement actually matters.

Website performance testing can produce an appealingly simple result: a score, a collection of measurements, and perhaps a list of things that could be improved. The difficulty begins when you run ...

Understanding Joomla Caching and When to Use It

Understand Joomla's caching options, how they affect website performance, and when caching can create problems with outdated or personalized content.

Caching is one of the ways Joomla can improve website performance by reducing the amount of processing required to deliver content. However, Joomla offers several caching mechanisms, and enabling t...

Website Performance Is a System, Not a Single Fix

Website performance is often approached as a search for the right fix: install a caching plugin, upgrade the hosting plan, compress the images, change a setting, or follow the recommendations from ...