Why Is My WordPress Site Slow? A Plain-English Fix List
TL;DR: “Why is my WordPress site slow?” – it’s a commonly asked question when non website designer/devs get involved in a website. A WordPress site is almost always caused by a handful of usual suspects: too many plugins, oversized images, no caching, cheap hosting, or a heavy theme and page builder. The good news is […]
Website Design for Restaurants: What Actually Fills Tables
TL;DR: Good website design for restaurants is about filling tables, not winning design awards. It needs to load fast, work on a phone, show an up-to-date menu, take bookings, and be found on Google. QED Web Design builds sustainable restaurant and hospitality websites, and our team brings 27 years of hospitality experience to the table, […]
Google Preferred Sources: Do They Help Small Websites?
TL;DR: Google preferred sources is a setting that lets a reader nominate websites they already trust, so those sites appear more often in Top Stories, AI Overviews and AI Mode. It rewards loyalty. It does not create discovery. Google’s Head of Search has argued the feature helps small publishers get found. She offered no data. […]
Web Design South Devon: What Local Businesses Need
TL;DR: Web design South Devon done properly means a fast, mobile-friendly WordPress site built to be found on Google, not just a pretty page that sits there doing nothing. QED Web Design is based in South Brent in the South Hams and builds sustainable websites for small businesses across Devon, with SEO included as standard […]
Google Search Console Social Media Tracking: What It Really Shows
TL;DR: Google Search Console social media tracking arrived on 7 July 2026 as a new property type called platform properties, covering Instagram, TikTok, X and YouTube. It shows how your social posts perform in Google Search and Discover, and nothing else. Connecting an account takes about ninety seconds. Google’s own documentation is explicit that platform […]
Why Is My Website Not Showing Up on Google? & How to fix it
TL;DR: Why Is My Website Not Showing Up on Google? If your website has vanished from Google, the cause is usually mundane and fixable: a stray setting, a leftover noindex tag, or a page that simply has not been indexed yet. Work through the checklist below in order, from the common and embarrassing causes to […]
Lighthouse Agentic Browsing Score: What It Means in 2026
TL;DR: Google has quietly added a new Agentic Browsing category to Lighthouse, the free auditing tool built into Chrome. It scores how ready your site is for AI agents rather than for human visitors, and you may have noticed it appear overnight. It is experimental, it does not produce a 0 to 100 score, and […]
Website Redesign Services for Small Businesses
TL;DR: Website redesign services fix what is already there, a rebuild starts from scratch, and sometimes the honest answer is to leave a working site alone. We inherited a tangled WordPress site for the SV Group and have been steadily fixing it, so this is the real, unglamorous version of what a redesign involves. Use […]
AI data center pollution: the myths, fairly debunked
TL;DR: AI data centre pollution makes for scary headlines, but most of them aim at the wrong thing. On-site cooling is only a small slice of the footprint, with the electricity behind the building and the chip factories taking the lion’s share. Evaporated cooling water is not destroyed and the rising vapour is essentially clean, […]
What Is agents.json?
TL;DR: What is agents.json? In short, it is a machine-readable description of the actions an AI agent can take on a website, built on top of the existing OpenAPI standard and started by a company called Wildcard AI, or that’s the aim. It is an early-stage proposal at version 0.1.0, not an adopted web standard, […]