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Nothing about site ownership is set it and forget it. My recommendations have changed considerably throughout 2015. With site audits, I’ve helped a lot of clients recover from following bad tech advice from gurus with groupies too. Here’s a quick checklist of what’s changed and my top recommendations to ensure your site is secure and performing at peak for the new year.
Part of why I have such a successful business helping folks clean up their site mess is because there are so many non-techie “gurus” giving out bad advice for what host and plugins to use. They never once check either of those for security or performance. I do. And I’m fed up. Get the skinny on the worst hosts and plugins that are frequently recommended and why you should think twice and consider the source of whose advice you’re following.
Avoid a slow crawl warning from Google by understanding what John Mueller referenced in load time speed under 2 seconds.
DDoS and hacker attacks are going to be the norm for 2016. Emails running through your hosting account are putting your site at risk in ways you can’t imagine. Learn about the real threats to your site via your email, why it puts you in a bind for changing hosts quickly, and why you need to take care of this sooner rather than later.
Hosts are either locking or terminating accounts left and right now. 99% of the time the host is in the right. But, their fix for the problem could be a rip off. Discover what your responsibilities are as a site owner and how to not get upsold or shut down.
Plugins have become a top source of both security and performance issues on WordPress sites. It’s time you got a handle on yours and I’m here to help. On Jan. 28, 2014, I’ll be offering a zero-pitch, no-hype, all help webinar where we’ll cover common plugin problems. And, we’ll help a few select folks go over their plugin list live.
The online environment has changed dramatically in the last two years. But most sites haven’t. And most site owners are still following the conventional, rehashed wisdom of a gazillion shiny new and me too posts telling them what they need to have on their site to be successful. It’s time to rethink all that.
Ever wonder how WordPress performs right out the box? I put a new installation through every major online testing service. Included are notes and full screenshots with summaries, waterfalls, performance scores, and request details. Testing tools include Pingdom, GTMetrix, WebPageTest, and WebSitePulse. Feel free to use it as a baseline to compare your site performance scores.
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