Speed Up Your WordPess

Presentation I did at WordPress Colombo Meetup
Date: 15th September 2017
Venue: 99X Technology

Transcript

1. SPEED UP YOUR WORDPRESS SITE Chathu Vishwajith : September 2017
2. CHATHU VISHWAJITH AUTH0 AMBASSADOR Speed up your WordPress site
3. WHY PAGE SPEED IS IMPORTANT? ▸ Slower sites not rank well with SEO ▸ User Experience Speed up your WordPress site
4. HOW TO test YOUR SITE SPEED ▸ WebPageTest.org ▸ Google Page Insights Speed up your WordPress site
5. WHY WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT SPEED WITH WordPress? Speed up your WordPress site
6. DYNAMIC vs STATIC Speed up your WordPress site
7. HOW TO optimize SITE LOADING SPEED? ▸ Use compression ▸ Optimize Your Images ▸ Minify CSS, JavaScript, and HTML Speed up your WordPress site
8. HOW TO optimize SITE LOADING SPEED? (CONT.) ▸ Reduce redirects ▸ Use a content distribution network ▸ Leverage browser caching Speed up your WordPress site
9. NGINX VS APACHE First Byte matters Speed up your WordPress site
10. HOW TO APPLY THESE TECHNIQUES TO WordPress Speed up your WordPress site
11. CHOOSE A GOOD host Speed up your WordPress site
12. CHOOSE A GOOD theme Speed up your WordPress site
13. OPTIMIZE database Speed up your WordPress site
14. COMPRESSION, CACHING AND MINIFICATION PLUGINS ▸ W3 Total Cache. ▸ WP Super Cache. Speed up your WordPress site
15. OPTIMIZE Images ▸ WP Smush. ▸ EWWW Image Optimizer. ▸ Use Photoshop export to web Speed up your WordPress site
16. USE A CONTENT DISTRIBUTION NETWORK ▸ Cloudflare Speed up your WordPress site
17. USE A CONTENT DISTRIBUTION NETWORK (CONT.) ▸ MaxCDN ▸ Amazon CloudFront ▸ Akamai Speed up your WordPress site
18. REDUCE USE OF plugins ! Speed up your WordPress site
19. SUMMERY ▸ Page load speed is important. ▸ We need to optimize our WordPress to get most out of it. Speed up your WordPress site
20. I’LL BE SPEAKING AT WORDCAMP Colombo 23RD SEPTEMBER Speed up your WordPress site
21. THANK YOU ! Speed up your WordPress site