Speed is important

This was a recent talk that I gave at Experian about the simple steps that you can take to ensure that your website runs faster. http://deanhume.com

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1. Speed is Important
   

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2. @deanohume
   deanhume.com
   

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3. How important is speed?
   

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4. Purposely injected a 100ms
   delay into their page load times.
   This decreased their sales by 1 %
   

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5. $10,711,000,000
   

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6. £66 Million
   That’s massive!
   

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7. At Bing, a 2 seconds delay caused
   a 4.3% drop in revenue per user.
   

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9. So where do we start?
   

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10. The easiest place first
    

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11. Scalable. Quick. Easy.
    

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12. Its all about making the
    size of the page smaller
    

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13. ImageCompression
    Expiry Headers
    Minify JavaScript & CSS
    Compression
    

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15. Minify JavaScript & CSS
    ajaxmin.codeplex.com
    Visual Studio 2012
    

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16. Image Compression
    Kraken.io
    Smush.it
    

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17. Compression
    Enabled in IIS in 3 clicks
    Enabled in Web.config
    

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18. Expiry Headers
    Enabled in IIS in 3 clicks
    Enabled in Web.config
    

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19. You will need help
    along the way
    

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20. Developer tools = best friend
    

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21. Use these tools
    Yahoo! YSlow
    Google PageSpeed
    

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22. Test from different
    locations around the world
    Webpagetest.org
    

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23. Think about mobile
    devices and tablets
    

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25. Show me the difference!
    

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27. Everyone fast
    

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28. Thank you.
    Any questions?
    

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