HTTP3 web hosting is coming to G7
We are proud to announce that we will be one of the first web hosting providers in the world to release HTTP3 capabilities to all our customers. G7Cloud is currently testing the latest innovation and expected to release HTTP3 in...
How to Install LiteSpeed WordPress Plugin
What is LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress? The LiteSpeed WordPress Plugin also known as LSCache is the fastest most robust caching plugin for any WordPress website. In addition to caching the Litespeed plugin is an all in one acceleration solution that...
How To Serve Next-Gen WebP Images on WordPress
Next-Gen images refers to the latest formats of images such as WebP, JPEG 2000 and JPEG XR. These Next-Gen formats are highly compressible whilst retaining high quality. To help put things into perspective, we converted a traditional JPEG image to...
Improve your SEO performance with G7 Cloud Hosting
In January 2018 Google officially announced that as of July 2018 page speed has become an SEO ranking factor. Page speed is not always the easiest SEO element to fix as it is impacted by so many different variables such...
Most impactful change to improving your page load times
You might be surprised to know that most of the page speed recommendations you either implemented and guides found on many reputable websites are almost pointless. General recommendations such as: Browser caching Optimising images Gzip compression Minify CSS Minify HTML...
What are on-page requests?
Requests also known as dependencies are the files that make up the page. All the images, CSS and JavaScript files on a website are called requests. For example, if a website had 10 images, each image is a single request/dependency....
What is Gzip Compression?
You may have noticed in Google’s PageSpeed Insights that some websites are flagged up for not enabling compression, as seen below. WHAT EXACTLY IS GZIP COMPRESSION? The simple’s way to explain Gzip compression is by imagining you ordered a new dinner table....
What is Minify?
You probably heard that you should always minify your files, be it JavaScript, HTML or CSS. Tools such as PageSpeed Insights will often flag warnings that CSS & JS files are not minified, but what exactly does it mean? Minify...
