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News Wednesday 4 November PageSpeed scores jump, GitHub blocks a trigger and Gutenberg 24.3 Today: Lighthouse 13.6 lifts PageSpeed scores, GitHub blocks pull_request_target, a Search Console click spike, Anthropic's AI warning and Gutenberg 24.3. November 4, 2026 · 8 min read

Dev log Performance Faster images, faster site: every trick, with examples Resize your images, save them as WebP or AVIF, lazy-load everything below the first screen, and let a CDN and caching deliver them. Here's how to do each one. October 18, 2026 · 10 min read

Lesson Guides Where to host your images: S3, R2 or your own server Small sites can keep images on their own server behind Cloudflare. Big or busy image libraries belong on Cloudflare R2, which charges nothing for downloads. October 15, 2026 · 7 min read

Lesson Guides Cloudflare 101: set up the free plan, step by step Swap your nameservers to Cloudflare, turn on the orange cloud for your website records and set SSL to Full (strict). You get free speed, SSL and protection. October 7, 2026 · 11 min read

Guide Marketing Product photos: your online shop window Product photos customers want to look at: what to shoot, white or transparent backgrounds, consistent angles, the right sizes, and fast loading. October 3, 2026 · 5 min read

Guide Site upgrades How to speed up a slow WordPress site A faster site in an afternoon: fewer plugins, smaller images, page caching, a CDN and minified files. Most of it is free, and WP Rocket covers the rest. September 28, 2026 · 5 min read

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Dev log Performance Core Web Vitals in plain English: LCP, INP and CLS What the three Core Web Vitals measure, the numbers that count as good, how to measure them on real visitors, and the fixes that help most on WordPress sites. September 25, 2026 · 5 min read