How to fix your Adobe Commerce Overages with Fastly
If you're consistently going over your contracted CDN egress on your Adobe Commerce contract here's how you can easily fix it.
Edge Security is now a Privacy Compliance Issue
Recent guidelines from the Australian government have specified practical measures businesses need to take to protect personal information. Learn more.
Cloudflare outage proves Plan B depends on controlling DNS
Tuesday’s Cloudflare incident reminded everyone that you can’t execute a Plan B if your DNS knobs are trapped behind the provider that’s failing. Here’s how Peakhour runs a detect-decide-divert playbook without touching your existing third-party DNS vendors.
The Negative Impact of Visible CAPTCHAs on Bounce Rates and Conversions
CAPTCHAs have long been a mainstay of bot management solutions, but the tradeoffs are lower conversions, find out just how bad it is.
Protecting Against a Share Point Zero Day Vulnerability with Network Fingerprinting
Analysis of attempts to exploit a recent Share Point zero day vulnerability reveal network fingerprinting and classification is a robust defense.
How Bots Contaminate Your A/B Testing Results and Marketing Strategy
Bot traffic corrupts A/B testing results, leading to flawed marketing decisions. Learn how to protect your tests and ensure accurate data for strategic planning.
The Hidden Cost of Click Fraud
Click fraud drains marketing budgets and corrupts campaign data. Learn how bots and residential proxies impact your ad spend and marketing strategy.
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.
Application Security for Financial Services Under CPS 234
Comprehensive analysis of credential stuffing threats against Australian financial institutions and how application security platforms help meet CPS 234 disclosure requirements whilst preventing account takeover attacks.
How To Exclude Query String Parameters from Search Engine crawling
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.
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.
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.
Useful tips to accelerate your Magento store
There are many things you can do to speed up your Magento store, here are just a few.
APRA Cybersecurity Guidelines
Comprehensive guide to APRA cybersecurity requirements for Australian financial institutions. Learn how application security platforms help meet CPS 234 compliance and Information Security Manual guidelines for protecting financial services infrastructure.
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.
Vary Cache on Cookie Value
Vary the cache on one cookie that changes the response without fragmenting the cache on analytics, session and unrelated cookie values.
Content and Origin Mounting
Content/Origin mounting allows you to seamlessly bring content together from multiple sources, on to your main website.
Cache Tags/Surrogate Keys
Surrogate Keys, or cache tags, are a powerful mechanism for targeted flushing of content from a cache, not all CDNs support them though.
Headless Commerce Security
Comprehensive analysis of security challenges in headless commerce and Single Page Applications. Learn how to protect modern e-commerce APIs and microservices architectures from scraping, fraud, and automated attacks.
Understanding HTTP Link Headers
How HTTP Link headers move preload, preconnect, and related resource hints into the response headers, plus the cases where that is operationally useful.
When Bots Break Bad
Even 'good' bots can end up abusing your site and impacting performance, learn why and how to stop it.
Multi-Origin Load Balancing
Websites with a global audience need more than just a traditional CDN. They need geographic multi origin load balancing.
Introducing Automatic Cache Tags in the Updated Peakhour WordPress Plugin
Read about automatic cache tags in the updated Peakhour WordPress plugin.
Drupal full page caching module
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.
Opencart 3 Full Page Caching Plugin Released
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
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
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
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 Chrome UX Report (CrUX), and why should you care?
Learn what the Chrome UX Report is, how CrUX field data feeds Core Web Vitals reporting, and how to use it alongside lab tools.
The CDN is Dead, Long Live the CDN!
Firefox and Chrome are introducing cache partitioning to improve your privacy, from everyone except Google.
Secure Dynamic Content Caching
Comprehensive guide to secure dynamic content caching that improves server performance whilst maintaining security controls. Learn how modern application security platforms integrate caching with threat protection for optimal performance-security balance.
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.
AVIF Support For Automatic 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
Use Lighthouse to reproduce a page-load test, read the metrics behind its score and turn failed audits into specific performance work.
Website Performance testing with WebPageTest.org
Use WebPageTest to reproduce a page load from a chosen browser and location, then inspect the waterfall, filmstrip and request-level delays.
Application Performance Optimisation
A practical primer for finding where website requests lose time, from cache state and origin work to browser rendering.
Core Web Vitals Optimisation
Comprehensive guide to Core Web Vitals optimisation with integrated security. Learn how modern application security platforms improve both performance metrics and protection whilst boosting search rankings and user experience.
Is your website obese?
An introduction to page weight, what it is and how you can reduce it.
Instant Alerts
Introducing Instant Alerts, a new feature for receiving emails or SMS alerts when events happen on your site.
WordPress Performance Optimisation
How to speed up WordPress by separating public cacheable pages from private, expensive, and abused request paths.
Boost Your Website Speed with Full Page Caching
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.