Your Anti-Fraud Residential Proxy Detection Sucks
Your anti fraud IP Intelligence service is no longer fit for purpose. Learn about the challenges in detecting residential proxies and why traditional methods don't work.
How To Exclude Query String Parameters from Search Engine crawling using robots.txt
Double crawling of pages by search engines due to filtering options and query strings can be a massive drain on server resources. Learn how to control it using robots.txt.
Introducing Advanced Rate Limiting
In the age of proxy networks and IP sharing, traditional rate limiting is of limited use. Introducing Advanced Rate Limiting to protect your website and APIs.
The Iconic is the latest Account Takeover victim in the news
Popular Australian fashion website TheIconic recently suffered reputational damage from fraudsters placing orders after an account takeover. Learn how this happens and what you can do to stop it.
Protecting the browser, an HTTP security header overview
Client side attacks on your website can have devastating impact on business credibility. Learn how to protect your clients with these HTTP Headers.
Introducing Magento 2 Plugin: Enterprise-Level Caching for All
Elevate your e-commerce with our newly released Magento 2 plugin. Experience enterprise-level caching features accessible to all Peakhour customers.
APRA Recommendations for website security
While Essential 8 mainly deals with workplace cybersecurity, APRA has published the Information Security Manual with numerous references to internet services. Read on to find out more.
Introducing a new Core Web Vital, Interaction to Next Paint (INP)
Google is introducing a new Core Web Vital to replace First Input Delay, read on to learn all about it.
Content/Origin Mounting - Feature in focus
Content/Origin mounting allows you to seamlessly bring content together from multiple sources, on to your main website.
Cache Tags/Surrogate Keys - Enterprise or Essential?
Surrogate Keys, or cache tags, are a powerful mechanism for targeted flushing of content from a cache, not all CDNs support them though.
Understanding HTTP Link Headers
HTTP Link headers are a relatively unknown but powerful way to improve page load times.
When Bots Break Bad
Even 'good' bots can end up abusing your site and impacting performance, learn why and how to stop it.
Layer 7 DoS attacks and Full Page Caching
Discover how Full Page Caching can help mitigate layer 7 DoS attacks.
Drupal full page caching module released!
We're excited to announce our Drupal 8/9 caching module, read on for more details.
Prestashop 1.6/1.7 full page caching plugin released!
Prestashop is the latest shopping cart we've made a plugin for, read on for more details.
IP Threat Intelligence
Discover and block threats through data enrichment using managed IP reputation lists
Opencart 3 Full Page Caching Plugin Released: Boost Website Performance with Peakhour
Elevate your Opencart 3 store's performance with Peakhour's full page caching plugin. Learn how our features outperform LiteSpeed and Varnish Cache.
Fastly Outage - How to have a Plan B
Fastly, a major CDN provider, had a global outage last night which affected some of the world's largest websites and internet services. Why didn't they have a backup plan?
Google AMP - Put Out To Pasture
Google AMP has been controversial right from the get go. As part of its 'Page Experience Update' Google is removing its preferential treatment of AMP authored pages.
Website Optimisation - Eliminating Blocking Resources
Even if you have the fastest server in the world, your website might still seem very slow to end users if you have lots of render blocking resources, learn how to deal with them.
Setting Up A Chia Hobby Farm
Chia is a new blockchain aiming to one up Bitcoin that's taking the crypto world by storm. We decided to jump on the bandwagon.
What is the Google Chrome UX (CrUX) report, and why you should care.
Learn where Google gets the performance data it uses when ranking your website.
The CDN is Dead, Long Live the CDN! - Cache Partitioning in Firefox and Chrome
Firefox and Chrome are introducing cache partitioning to improve your privacy, from everyone except Google.
Dynamic Content Caching With A CDN
This article covers improving server performance by utilising Dynamic Content Caching, which Full Page Caching is a subset of. Caching Dynamic Content can supercharge your website and dramatically reduce load on a server.
Bad Bot Countermeasures
Bad bots can have significant impact to your website while being hard to detect and stop. Here we detail accepted best practise on how to combat the growing threat from bad bots.
Common Issues That Affect Website Performance
After covering testing we're going to get an overview of the common issues that impact website load times and how to check for them.
Are Australian Magento Stores Ready For Web Vitals?
Are Australian Magento stores prepared for the introduction of Core Web Vitals as a search signal? Read on to find out.
Introducing AVIF Support For Peakhour Image Optimisation
AVIF is a next generation image format with early support in Chrome and Firefox. Peakhour is pleased to offer AVIF as a supported format to our clients.
Test Your Website Performance With Google Lighthouse
This installment on website performance introduces Google Lighthouse as a measuring tool. Read on to see how we use it here at Peakhour.
Website Performance testing with WebPageTest.org
In this installment of our website performance series we're taking a look at webpagetest.org, one of the best tools you can use to analyse real world performance of your website.
Introduction to Website Performance Testing
Following on from our introduction to Web Vitals we're introducing why you should test your website speed and how best to do it.
Instant Alerts
Introducing Instant Alerts, a new feature for receiving emails or SMS alerts when events happen on your site.
Boost Your Website Speed with Full Page Caching: A Focus on Magento
Our Magento 1 plugin is now available in the Magento Store. Discover how it improves website performance and capability.
Boost Your Website Speed with Peakhour's Full Page Caching
Experience a significant boost in website speed and performance with Peakhour's Full Page Caching feature, now easily accessible through our Wordpress plugin.