Rolling Out Support for a New Protocol – Aerial Website Delivery
At Lucid Rhino Web Design we are 100% committed to keeping our carbon footprint as low as possible. Every website we host is already powered by 100% renewable energy*, but we wanted to go a step further. Many companies are turning to drones to deliver their services...
I Made a WordPress Website 93% Faster – Case Study
The need for speed I’m a website speed anorak. Web page load times aren’t everything, but they do make a real difference to a website’s bottom line. Google says that as the load time of a web page increases from 1 second to 7 seconds, the probability of a mobile...
17 Key Features Every Website Needs
It can be hard to know where to start when designing a website. There are so many options and it can seem complicated. Well don’t fear, in this post I’m going to show you the key elements that every website needs to set itself up for success. What really annoys you on...
25 Tips to Make Your WordPress Website Faster
Search engines now take into account the loading speed of websites when they compile search results, giving fast loading sites a little boost in the rankings. Page load time also has a noticeable impact on conversion rates – in layman’s terms this is the...
Ethical Renewable Web Hosting
Apparently the internet weighs as much as a strawberry. Well to be precise, all the electrons that make up the data stored on the internet weigh as much as a strawberry: about 50 grams. That’s according to Vsauce (see his video at the bottom of this post). The data he... How to Serve WebP Images in WordPress on LiteSpeed
If you’re reading this, chances are you already know how important it is for a website to load quickly. But if you didn’t, we wrote about the importance of having a fast website, with a free tip for checking how your website performs and getting tips for...
How to Automatically Backup and Restore a WordPress Website
Note: this post is about standalone versions of WordPress called wordpress.org, rather than wordpress.com, which is hosted by WordPress themselves. If there was a list of ten laws for running a website I’m convinced one of them would be “thou shalt regularly back up...
How to Tell If a Website Is WordPress.com or WordPress.org
As we described recently, there are two flavours of WordPress – the freemium version hosted by WordPress (.com) and the free self-hosted version (.org). But if you’re reading this post chances are you already know that. So with no further ado… 1. Your site is at... 