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By Greg Nowak, 24 June, 2026

WordPress Speculative Loading Needs a Cart, Analytics, and Cache Test

WordPress 6.8 adds cautious speculative loading. Before enabling stronger prerendering, test cart state, analytics, personalization, and cache load.

Tags

  • wordpress
  • Performance
  • Core Web Vitals
  • technical QA
By Greg Nowak, 19 May, 2026

NGINX 1.30 changed upstream connection reuse by default: what to check before you upgrade

NGINX 1.30 makes upstream HTTP/1.1 keep-alive the default. Here is how to audit backends, clean inherited config, and upgrade without avoidable surprises.

Tags

  • Nginx
  • backend compatibility
  • Performance
  • Server Ops
By Greg Nowak, 10 May, 2026

Cloudflare Cache Response Rules: Safer Header Fixes at the Edge

Cloudflare's 2026 Cache Response Rules let teams stage response-header fixes at the edge, audit cache behavior, and test changes before app releases.

Tags

  • Cloudflare
  • Caching
  • Performance
  • Operations
  • Headers
By Greg Nowak, 30 April, 2026

WordPress Autoloaded Options Are Still a Paid Performance Fix, Not Just a Site Health Warning

WordPress now makes autoload pressure easier to spot, but the real work is still deciding what belongs in the request path, correcting save logic, and cleaning stale options without breaking the site.

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  • wordpress
  • Performance
  • database
  • Troubleshooting
By Greg Nowak, 25 April, 2026

When URL Parameters Become an Operations Problem: Fix Crawl Waste, Cache Fragmentation, and Duplicate URLs

URL parameters are usually added for good reasons, then quietly become a cost center. This version explains, in practical terms, how business owners, operations leads, and agency teams can reduce crawl waste, clean up duplicate URLs, and stop unnecessary cache fragmentation.

Tags

  • Technical SEO
  • Cloudflare
  • Performance
  • wordpress
  • Drupal
By Greg Nowak, 10 February, 2022

Protocols: h2, h2c, and HTTP/1.1 Tips for Real-World Stacks

A practical guide to choosing h2, h2c, or HTTP/1.1 across browsers, CDNs, proxies, and origins, with current Apache, NGINX, and curl guidance you can verify on a live stack.

Tags

  • Web
  • HTTP
  • Infrastructure
  • Performance
By Greg Nowak, 8 June, 2020

Critical CSS for Faster Pages

Critical CSS can improve first render and perceived speed, but only when it is scoped to real templates, measured against real bottlenecks, and kept maintainable over time.

Tags

  • seo
  • Performance
  • css
  • Drupal
By Greg Nowak, 7 April, 2019

Drupal 8 Advanced Aggregation for Better Google PageSpeed Scores

If you still manage a Drupal 8 site, Advanced Aggregation can help, but the real gains come from reducing unused CSS and JavaScript, testing carefully, and knowing when a legacy performance tweak should give way to an upgrade plan.

Tags

  • Drupal
  • PageSpeed
  • Performance
  • Technical SEO
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