How to find out if your “great” hosting company is really just another reseller

My hosting is SiteGround and they were doing ok until today (or yesterday). They updated their system- which they have migrated the cPanel to Sitetools. Now iwhen you login your SiteGround account, there is no cPanel and each of my wordpress sites have cpanel menus on the left side- as if a wordpress dashboard. (I […]

Is google subtly downgrading competitors to its adsense network?

“Ezoic was a downfall, unsure if it was adding them too soon or not having the knowhow to optimize them properly but my traffic steadily declined after adding them. For over a year I was on a downward slide. It got to the point where it wasnt worth the income from ads. I removed ads […]

Same site, same host, same data – one runs Acabado, other runs Kadence – which one seems faster to you?

https://wp.brenden.com/blog/ https://wp2.brenden.com/blog/ These are both “stock” / untouched beyond ‘activate’ theme. Maybe I’m missing some tuning? Very roughly: I notice the acabado page source is 403 lines with 15 “<script” tags, and 26 “src=” tags. Kadence page source is 543 lines, 22 “<script” tags, 16 “src=” tags. PAGESPEED – MOBILE MODE https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwp.brenden.com%2F 3 reloads: score […]

Speeding Things Up – Audio Interspace Compression

In Audacity is the Effect “Truncate Silence…” It can be used to remove a definable amount of the inter-phrase deadspace that lengthens nearly all voice tracks by 30% or more. It ‘speed things up’ so listeners don’t have to later “Alvinate” at 1.5, 1.75. 2x – or, if they do anyway, you will have given […]