ABOUT ANDRÉ CORREA
I Fix WordPress Performance
For a Living. Every Single Day.
Not a blogger who read the docs. Not an agency that outsources the work. A hands-on performance engineer who optimizes real sites under real load — daily.
5+
Years in WordPress Performance
500+
Sites Optimized
#1
WordPress Host — Rocket.net
Daily
Production-Level Work
Currently
Performance Engineer at Rocket.net
Core Web Vitals Specialist
WordPress Performance Educator
Hi, I’m André. I make WordPress sites fast — for real.
I’ve spent the last 5+ years with my hands inside WordPress performance problems that generic tutorials never touch. Admin-ajax hammering servers at 3am. CPU steal quietly stealing 40% of your capacity. Database queries bloated by plugins you forgot you installed three years ago.
Today I lead performance initiatives at Rocket.net — consistently ranked the fastest WordPress hosting on the planet. I optimize enterprise-scale sites every day, then I come here and translate what I find into guides that actually work in the real world.
I built this site because I kept seeing the same pattern: site owners following advice from people who’ve never seen a production server, running speed tests and not knowing what the numbers mean, and throwing plugins at a problem that needs a scalpel, not a sledgehammer.
“Most WordPress speed advice is written by people who’ve never had to explain why a site crashed at 9am on a Monday to a client losing $500/minute. I have. That’s the difference.”
Why I do this for free
Most WordPress site owners aren’t running Fortune 500 companies. They’re running their business, their blog, their livelihood — on a budget that doesn’t include $500 performance audits. They deserve access to the same level of thinking that enterprise clients pay for. That’s what this site is: enterprise-grade knowledge, no enterprise-grade price tag.
What I actually do at Rocket.net
I diagnose performance regressions across a hosting infrastructure used by thousands of WordPress sites. I write the playbooks that engineers use. I find the edge cases. When something breaks at scale, I’m one of the people figuring out why — and that experience is what makes every guide on this site different from what you’ll find anywhere else.
CREDENTIALS & EXPERIENCE
The work behind the words
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Rocket.net — Performance Engineer
2022 — Present
Leading performance optimization initiatives across enterprise WordPress deployments. Diagnosing regressions, building internal playbooks, and pushing the ceiling on what WordPress hosting can do.
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500+ Sites Optimized
Across 5+ Years
From single-person blogs to WooCommerce stores doing millions in revenue. Every stack, every hosting environment, every flavor of WordPress problem — I’ve seen it and fixed it.
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Core Web Vitals Specialist
LCP · CLS · INP
Deep expertise in Google’s ranking signals — not just what they measure but why they’re hard to fix in WordPress specifically, and the non-obvious approaches that actually move the numbers.
MY APPROACH
How I think about performance
✗ What most “speed guides” do
- Install WP Rocket and call it done
- Run PageSpeed and list the errors
- Generic advice for generic stacks
- No explanation of why it works
- Written once, never tested again
✓ What you get here
- Diagnosis before prescription — every time
- Stack-specific fixes, not one-size-fits-all
- The why behind every recommendation
- Tested on real sites with real traffic
- Updated when WordPress or Google changes the rules
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Have a question first? Drop me a line at andre@wpvelocitylab.com — I read every message.
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