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Speeding Up WordPress

Speeding Up WordPress

Nobody likes waiting for a slow site to load. Your website speed will impact your SEO, sales and user experience. Half of the people will leave if your site doesn’t load in 3 seconds or less. In this presentation, we’ll go over tips and techniques that can dramatically increase your website performance. You will learn about online tools that will help measure your website speed as well as how you can implement steps to improve it.

Irina Blumenfeld

October 23, 2018
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  1. SPEEDING UP
    WORDPRESS
    WordPress Orlando Meetup - 2018
    IRINA BLUMENFELD
    @irinablumenfeld #wcorl
    SLIDES: https://www.netmagik.com/speeding-up-wordpress

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    53%

    of visits to MOBILE sites are abandoned
    after 3 seconds
    Source: Google’s Double Click

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    S L O W W E B S I T E S
    • Loss of leads
    • Bad for SEO
    • Higher bounce rate
    • Bad user experience
    • Decreased revenue

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    T E S T
    • gtmetrix.com
    • tools.pingdom.com/fpt
    • webpagetest.org

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    G T M E T R I X . C O M

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    W E B PA G E T E S T. O R G

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    W E B PA G E T E S T. O R G

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    W H Y I S I T S L O W ?
    • Hosting
    • Images
    • Caching
    • Third Parties
    • Plugins

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    HOW FAST IS
    FAST ENOUGH?

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    VS

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    W E B PA G E T E S T. O R G

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    C O M PA R E

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    Should I Use A Carousel.com
    I M A G E S

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    source: httparchive.org
    AVERAGE PAGE - 3.8 MB

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    O P T I M I Z E / C O M P R E S S
    • Tinypng.com
    • Kraken.io
    • EWWW WordPress Plugin
    • Compress JPG and PNG WordPress Plugin

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    O P T I M I Z E / C O M P R E S S

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    A C T I VAT E C A C H I N G
    • Managed Hosting Caching
    • WP Rocket (Premium)
    • WP Super Cache (Free)

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    T H I R D PA R T I E S
    • Ads
    • Weather
    • Images
    • Analytics
    • Social media widgets
    • Fonts & Icons

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    L E S S I S B E T T E R

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    S U M M A R Y
    • Hosting
    • Images
    • Caching
    • Third Parties
    • Plugins

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    T H A N K Y O U
    Slides: netmagik.com/speeding-up-wordpress
    Twitter: @irinablumenfeld
    E-Mail: [email protected]

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