Google promoting web speed at Wordcamp Europe 2019

I had some fun this morning with the Google team at Wordcamp Europe in Berlin.

Google are promoting web speed at Wordcamp Europe – specifically helping webmasters to speed up their WordPress websites.

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Resolve WordPress “The site is experiencing technical difficulties.”

If you recently upgraded WordPress to version 5.2 you’ll maybe have seen there are a lot of new Health Check and technical goodies – particularly, there’s some disaster prevention elements in there.

But, maybe you were unfortunate, and a plugin or theme update has shown you a new message, which says “The site is experiencing technical difficulties.”

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Resolving Siteground CPU Issues

In the past couple of years, as well as overseeing medium and large business WordPress development at Silicon Dales, I’ve also kept my skills sharp working on over 330+ freelance projects of varying sizes.

Often I’m contracted to consult or troubleshoot difficult situations, so I see a lot of common threads running through tasks, which allow me to offer assistance to WordPress webmasters who may be struggling with similar issues.

One thing I’ve seen cropping up a little on more complex WP sites in the past few months is sites hosted on Siteground who are – in one way or another – maxing out their CPU.

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