Performance

Asset preloading is a high-level performance technique that tells a user’s browser to start downloading “critical” files before it even finishes reading the page’s code. This eliminates the “wait time” for essential visuals, making your site feel instantaneous.

Image Optimisation is a mini control center for how images are handled once they are uploaded to your website. These settings ensure your site stays fast and looks professional by automating the “heavy lifting” of image editing. When you upload a high-resolution photo from a camera or phone, it is often massive (both in file […]

How to eliminate Google Fonts as an external dependency, self-host .woff2 files, and build a deliberate font system that doesn’t hurt your Core Web Vitals. Covers the full Breakdance + LiteSpeed Cache + SCOS workflow — including where to find real font URLs, when to preload (and when not to), CLS rule of thumb, weight normalisation, and a font system planning table you can use as a project-level typography contract.

System Overview The ntfy monitoring system is a module within the Brighter Core MU plugin. It hooks into WordPress events and WP Cron to watch for failure conditions, then pushes notifications to an ntfy server via HTTP. Each monitor is an independent class. Monitors are opt-in via wp-config.php constants. The main controller (class-ntfy-notifications.php) loads only […]

wp-admin/admin.php?page=site-essentials-essentials&tab=monitoring For: Clients + anyone evaluating the feature What Is Site Monitoring? Every site built and managed by Brighter Websites runs a background monitoring system that watches for problems automatically — 24 hours a day, without anyone needing to log in and check. When something goes wrong (or looks like it might), an alert fires […]

Enable or disable individual WordPress tweaks. Disabled tweaks don’t load any code. Here is how these categorize across General Performance, SEO-specific, and Security/Housekeeping.