performance

WordPress and CDN

11/25/201311/8/2013 by Jim Becher

High Traffic WordPress Sites A few websites that I maintain get a large volume of traffic. They are using WordPress as a content management system. To accommodate this traffic I have been utilizing a combination of a great service CDN and a caching plugin. A “CDN” is a Content Delivery Network is a service that will store and forward your items …

Favicon–What / Why / and How

9/9/20139/4/2013 by Jim Becher

If you do not know what a favicon is , it would be hard to explain with out a picture. The Favicon is the little icon that shows up in your browsers tab for a website. In this picture the favicon is highlighted, it happens to be my site’s icon. I also have a few well known sites open; Google, Facebook, …