Increasingly, we are getting requests from clients asking us to increase the Google PageSpeed Insights (PSI) score of their Joomla sites. Some of them even ask us to get them a score of a 100, which can only be possible if the Joomla website is an extremely basic one. We usually respond that any score […]

Note: The solution in this post is a core modification. Proceed with caution. Another note: This post has been modified on January 31st, 2018 to correct an error. The post has originally been published the day before, on January 30th, 2018. While analyzing the performance of the backend of a Joomla 3.8 website that has […]

A client of ours uses a Joomla article for listing internal announcements (the Joomla website is used as an intranet). The Joomla article contains announcements from 2005 and, each time the company has a new announcement (which literally happens at least one time every business day), that announcement is added to the very beginning of […]

Note: This post is advanced and is mainly aimed at system administrators, but any Joomla administrator can still read it and understand the main points as we have simplified it as much as we can. One of our customers constantly emailed us about people getting randomly blocked from accessing their Joomla website. At first, our […]

For a while now, we were noticing intermittent load spikes on the server powering a high traffic Joomla website of a client of ours. These spikes were troubling, because they were caused by neither the MySQL database nor the PHP instance; they were caused by something else, something that we didn’t know what it was […]