Research from Google found that website bounce rates increase by as much as 31% from one-second to three-second load times. In my experience, page load times are one of the most consistent technical ...

If you want to make sure your company's website is ready for a large dose of visitors - right at launch, during a registration period, or just at times when you expect more traffic than usual - then ...

Google PageSpeed Insights is the gold standard when it comes to checking website loading time. But that’s primarily designed for developers. Non-techies can look at Pingdom and GiftOfSpeed instead.

Jack Wallen shows you how easy it is to load test your websites with a handy command-line tool called Apache Bench. How well are your websites performing? You might ...

Ever wondered what would happen if you launched your web applications without load testing them? You may run into glitches and lose a huge chunk of your customer base due to poor app performance. For ...

A breakdown of the full process we use to test web hosting services for our reviews and best-of lists. Dianna Gunn built her first WordPress website in 2008. Since then, she's poured thousands of ...

Barracuda, Citrix, Coyote Point, F5, Kemp, and Zeus offerings stretch from no-frills appliances with basic load balancing to kitchen-sink solutions with rule-based traffic management, application ...

A slow-loading website can drive visitors away — this is the essence of the 2-second rule. With attention spans shrinking, your website’s loading times and performance have never been more important.

You put so much work into making your WordPress website, it’d be a shame if one little thing could be its entire undoing. If your website takes longer to load than it took you to read this paragraph, ...