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Speed is important

Dean Hume
February 01, 2013

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

Dean Hume

February 01, 2013
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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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    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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