As part of this site’s latest makeover, I went all out to optimise its performance. Like an F1 car, the slightest of adjustments can have a big impact on performance so I’ll run through my top 5 tips for optimising wordpress… First things first, you need to establish a benchmark. You can’t improve something by measuring … Read more5 tips to speed up your wordpress site
Let’s say you have an endpoint returning the hourly prices for gold. But you don’t want to display hourly values, you want to only display the value at the start of a new day (i.e. at midnight). How do you go about it? This was a problem I faced working on a project and I … Read moreHow to determine whether a time is the start of a day in vanilla javascript
We’ve all come across startup or app websites that display their product within a realistic smartphone or laptop image. Sometimes it’s used to show that the app or website is responsive and has been built for multiple platforms. When working on one particular project, I decided against using stock images for a variety of reasons … Read moreRidiculously lightweight, responsive CSS & SVG device shapes
So you can get a list of daily values from an endpoint and maybe you can even specify ‘to’ and ‘from’ times to get values in between certain dates. Fantastic. But what you *really* want to do is group data by months. How do you do it? This is a problem I ran in to … Read moreHow to get the start and end time of every month between two dates
Google’s PageSpeed Insights tool is a quick and easy way of checking site performance on desktop and mobile. It provides you with suggestions on what to improve and this can help you to figure out if there are any quick wins to be had. It can also help to troubleshoot performance and give clues as … Read moreGetting a PageSpeed score of 100 with WordPress