Ammar Mahdi is a Calgary web developer who builds fast, reliable WordPress sites. Writing on web performance, Core Web Vitals, and shipping for the web.https://ammarmahdi.com/en-cahttps://ammarmahdi.com/blog/database-wordpress/https://ammarmahdi.com/blog/database-wordpress/A bloated WordPress database makes every query slower. What to clean up, starting with autoloaded options, the one thing that taxes every single page load.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTwordpressdatabaseperformancemysqlhttps://ammarmahdi.com/blog/hosting-wordpress/https://ammarmahdi.com/blog/hosting-wordpress/Your host sets the speed ceiling, and no plugin raises it. Why TTFB, your PHP version, and PHP workers decide how fast a WordPress site can be.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTwordpresshostingperformancecore-web-vitalshttps://ammarmahdi.com/blog/improve-inp-wordpress/https://ammarmahdi.com/blog/improve-inp-wordpress/INP measures how fast a page responds to taps and clicks, and on WordPress it is almost always a JavaScript problem. How to find the slow interaction and fix it.Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTwordpressinpperformancecore-web-vitalshttps://ammarmahdi.com/blog/caching-wordpress/https://ammarmahdi.com/blog/caching-wordpress/Caching means doing expensive work once and reusing it. What each layer of WordPress caching does, from the server out to the browser, and where each helps.Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTwordpresscachingperformancecore-web-vitalshttps://ammarmahdi.com/blog/optimize-images-wordpress/https://ammarmahdi.com/blog/optimize-images-wordpress/Images are the heaviest part of most pages and usually the LCP element. The formats, sizing, and WordPress settings that actually make them fast.Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTwordpressimagesperformancecore-web-vitalshttps://ammarmahdi.com/blog/core-web-vitals-wordpress/https://ammarmahdi.com/blog/core-web-vitals-wordpress/What LCP, INP, and CLS actually measure, why they matter for WordPress sites, and the specific fixes that move each one into the green.Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTwordpresscore-web-vitalsperformanceseohttps://ammarmahdi.com/blog/speed-up-wordpress/https://ammarmahdi.com/blog/speed-up-wordpress/A practical, measure-first guide to making WordPress fast: hosting, caching, images, the database, and the plugins quietly slowing you down.Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTwordpressperformancecore-web-vitals