Wordpress.com vs Github Pages Performance compared

17 Apr 2017 |

Wordpress.com gets a lot of attention about its bloat and slowness. While moving to Github pages, I ran a comparison and wanted to show the magnitude of difference across the 2 platforms.

Perceptual SpeedIndex - What, Why and is it necessary?

11 Apr 2017 |

Recently a paper was released about perceived performance around a new metric called SpeedPerception. Although interesting, it does not appear to be practical like SpeedIndex, TTFB or other metrics.

5 tools for DIY SEO Health Check

04 Apr 2017 |

Basic SEO analysis for technical folks can sound difficult. There are a lot of free tools that can help. I show 5 such SEO tools/methods for DIY SEO analysis.

Migrating Wordpress Blogs to GitHub Pages

21 Mar 2017 |

Wordpress.com's free blogs have a number of inherent limitations. Moving to Ghithub pages provides ability to overcome these limitations and make the blogs faster and more effective. Here's my experience with this process.

Mutual auth and Certificate Revocation

16 Mar 2017 |

How to auto-upgrade to HTTPS (aka avoid mixed content)?

09 Feb 2017 |

When migrating to a full HTTPS site, Content-Security-Policy and Upgrade-Insecure-Requests could be your friend. This post tells you the use of the headers and the mechanism to implement it during the site migration.

Akshay Ranganath's Blogs

Wordpress.com vs Github Pages Performance compared

Perceptual SpeedIndex - What, Why and is it necessary?

5 tools for DIY SEO Health Check

Migrating Wordpress Blogs to GitHub Pages

Mutual auth and Certificate Revocation

How to auto-upgrade to HTTPS (aka avoid mixed content)?

How can CDN help in your SEO efforts?

What metrics matter for SEO?