Danni Mei

GTMetrix has been so helpful for me and my clients website speed. They have a new technology called LightHouse and it gives more helpful suggestions now. What is so useful about this is that often it is confusing for people to understand the suggestions that GTMetrix used to give in the past. They had a link that explained it, but for non IT professionals it was still confusing. This new format focus on the most important things and I think does a better job making it obvious where the problem is. What I love about it the most is that the score is more helpful and not just an abstract…

When your site starts crashing and slowing down, you have too many plugins. Right now I have 29 plugins. I have tested all of them with GTMetrix and they don’t slow my site down. In fact, I buy plugins if I notice a slowdown in GTMetrix. Website speed is so important to Google. How do you know when plugins are causing a problem? I use a great troubleshooting plugin called P3. With this plugin it shows you how your plugins are loading and identifies it more easily if you find GTMetrix confusing. I have used this in the past to identify exactly what a plugin is doing that is causing…

If you look you can find all kinds of great online resources to entertain yourself during this time. I complied a list of all the online resources in New York for my company and I thought you might be interested. You can see NYC Travel sites online now. This page is just part of a broader campaign that shows the NYC lifestyle and features. What is amazing is that there are so many great online resources that can educate and entertain. I haven’t had time to investigate in depth all of these links but everything that I have viewed has been so educational and fun. If you are bored and…

In the last week I have been using Blog2Social and it has worked great. I used to use another plugin but it had too many problems and was complex to setup. Now this plugin is a dream to use. What I like the most about it is the great support. The other plugin I used had poor support and they were slow to respond. I had some confusion when I first installed this and they responded the first work day. I sent it in on Sunday and I got a response on Monday. I was so happy. It will connect easily to any social network you probably want to use.…

The best image optimization plugin is ShortPixel. I know because I used them all and ShortPixel compresses the best. Using ShortPixel has increased my website speed in a dramatic way. GTMetrix shows that it was slow before I optimized my images and faster afterwords. For the low cost it just isn’t worth it to manually process images anymore. It can also easily make WebP versions so there is a great deal of flexibility. Why am I sharing this now? Last week I uploaded several games to test out. It turns out that those games have images that weren’t optimized. ShortPixel saw the new images and offered to optimize them. I…