Think, Move, and Own to improve WordPress Performance

A mindset for improving WordPress performance. Analyze Data ( Think ), Take Action ( Move ), and Optimize & Improve ( Own ) to hit the performance target for your clients. Also, included are references to debugging and profiling tools that can help in gathering data and formulating a performance solution for WordPress.

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1. Think, Move, and Own to improve WordPress Performance ! ! Cory Crowley // @corycrowley Skyhook Internet Marketing
3. Why is performance important?
4. A slow site means you may: Lose Users Lose Money Infuriate Clients or All of the above
5. Think: Analyze Icon by Flaticon: http://www.flaticon.com/
6. Gather Data Icon by Flaticon: http://www.flaticon.com/
7. “It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.” - Sherlock Holmes, A Scandal in Bohemia
8. Performance data is accessible and decipherable.
9. Tools Icon by Flaticon: http://www.flaticon.com/
10. Debugging
11. Setup: wp-config.php
12. Create a Debug Function
13. Query Monitor http://wordpress.org/plugins/query-monitor/
14. Feature: Database Queries
15. Feature: Environment Information
16. Feature: Hooks
17. Debug Bar https://wordpress.org/plugins/debug-bar/
18. Feature: Query Data, Cache Data
19. Other Debug Bar Plugins - Debug Bar Actions and Filters Addon - List of hooks( Actions + Filters ) - Debug Bar Action Hooks - List fired hooks - Debug Bar Console - PHP/MySQL console to the debug bar - Debug Bar Constants - List all WP and PHP constants - Debug Bar Cron - Display scheduled events - Debug Bar Extender - Adds profiler and extra tools - Debug Bar List Script & Style Dependencies - Shows scripts/styles loaded for the current page & dependencies. - Debug Bar Post Meta - Lists the post meta data for the current post - Debug Bar Post Types - Detailed information about registered post types settings - Debug Bar Query Tracer - Lets you trace what plugins are causing database queries - Debug Bar Screen Info - Shows screen info of the current admin page - Debug Bar Shortcodes - Shows the registered shortcodes, any available information about them and where they are used - Debug Bar Super Globals - Displays Super Global variables for the current request - Debug Bar Template Trace - Show which template files are loaded for a page - Debug Bar Transients - Transient info
20. Xdebug + Webgrind http://xdebug.org/ https://github.com/jokkedk/webgrind Expert Tool
21. Profiling
22. Find the signals in the noise
23. P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler) https://wordpress.org/plugins/p3-profiler/
24. Feature: Runtime by Plugin
25. Feature: Detailed Timeline
26. Feature: Advanced Metrics
27. Feature: Excellent Help
28. XHProf Profiler Expert Tool
29. Move: Take Action Icon by Flaticon: http://www.flaticon.com/
30. Act on Data, not on Emotion
31. Reduce Big Numbers
32. Fix PHP Errors
33. Reduce External Requests
34. Reduce MySQL Queries
35. Get Rid of Bad Plugins
36. Rework Theme to Reduce Bloat
37. Reduce 404 Errors
38. Combine Scripts & Styles Grunt JS: http://gruntjs.com/
39. Implement Caching
40. W3 Total Cache
41. Utilize native WordPress API’s to ensure efficient, secure, and compatible php execution.
42. Use Transients
43. Own: Optimize & Improve Icon by Flaticon: http://www.flaticon.com/
44. Streamline Your Process
45. Be skeptical of things you want
46. Ditch what nobody ever uses
47. Load only the code you need
48. Rinse and Repeat Icon by Flaticon: http://www.flaticon.com/
49. Increase performance by…
51. Resources Debug Plugins - Core Control - Lots of core options - Query Monitor - Monitor lots of debugging things - Developer - Quickly get setup - Debug This - Lot of debug modes - Debug Objects - Lots of info - Hook Sniffer - Action and filter sequence - Depreciated Notices - Log outdated functions - Rewrite Analyzer - Helps dreaded rewrites - Rewrite Rules Inspector - Straightforward WordPress admin tool for inspecting your rewrite rules - BlackBox Debug Bar - Another debug bar - User Switching - Instant switching between user accounts in WordPress. - WCM Current Admin Info - Info about current screen, contextual hooks & its globals - WpDevTool - Development tool for WP to track bugs, manage crons, permalinks, etc. - WP-Pretty Debug - Pretty var_dumps -links to queryposts.com API - WP Crontrol - Lets you view and control what’s happening in the WP-Cron system - Kint Debugger - Kint debugging tool that integrates with the Debug Bar is present.
52. Resources Continued… Profiling - Time-Stack - WordPress profiling - P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler) - Test your plugins - XHProf Profiler - Profile plugins and themes using XHProf (Facebook) SQL Debug - MySQL Profiler - SQL Monitor Other - Console Logger Log WP data to Chrome or Firefox - Wp-Debug-Toggle - Toggle wp_debug via CLI
53. Thank you! Cory Crowley // @corycrowley