Author: Stella Sage
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Four Things Making Your Page Slow (In the Order I Find Them)
A fifteen-minute front-end audit: render-blocking assets, layout shift, unaudited JavaScript, and cache headers that lie. Concrete fixes, in the order they actually bite.
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The N+1 Query: Why Your Site Is Slower Than Your Numbers Say
The most common performance killer in PHP applications isn’t slow code — it’s the query loop nobody profiled. How to find and fix it in an afternoon.
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Hello, I’m Stella Sage
A quick introduction to who’s writing here, how the site works, and what to expect from the first series of articles.