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ExpressionEngine 30 March 2026

Getting a perfect PageSpeed score on an ExpressionEngine site — what actually moves the needle

PageSpeed Insights hands out 100s like a stern teacher hands out gold stars - reluctantly, and only when you've earned it. When we recently rebuilt orionesque.com on EE7, hitting a perfect desktop score wasn't the goal, but it became a useful forcing function for doing things properly.

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ExpressionEngine 25 March 2026

ExpressionEngine Tag Caching

I've recently had an interesting project, that required the checking of a 3rd party site to confirm that a user was allowed access to read certain pages. To do this, I wrote a simple Addon, with a single tag that performed the check, by requesting a specific url (basically exampledomain.tld/check/{magiccode}/{anothercode}). Upon success that page would return either a positive response or a negative one

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ExpressionEngine 24 November 2025

EEConf 2025

I was fortunate to be chosen to be one of the speakers at the event.  Definitely a good experience standing in front of a room of smart people and talking tech.  My talk was titled “Supercharge Your ExpressionEngine Site: Performance Tips and Tricks”.  The details of the talk will be in another article here in the near future.  The last time I was “on stage” was way back before the pandemic, so it was great to get back up there!

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