Website Optimization Tips For Bloggers (Siteground) - Katerina Angelova

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Website Optimization Tips For Bloggers

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Katerina.a_6 Katerina Angelova Aﬃliate Partnerships Manager katerina.a@siteground.com

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Slow speed affects Revenue User satisfaction Bounce rate SEO rankings

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How to check out performance yourself?

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● Tools.pingdom.com ● GTmetrix.com ● Google PageSpeed Free tools to use:

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Easy steps to speed up performance

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Optimize Images

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● Reduce dimensions ● Compress images ● Image format ● Replace sliders How to optimize images:

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600px by 600px; Size - 99.8KB 200px by 200px; Size - 20.7KB Reduce dimensions

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1920px by 1080px; Size - 377KB 800px by 450px; Size - 70.3KB ● SG Optimizer ● EWWW ● WP Smush ● Tiny PNG Tools for compressing images

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PNG: 600px by 600px; Size - 217KB JPEG: 600px by 600px; Size - 99.8KB WebP: 600px by 600px; Size - 56.2KB Image format

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Get rid of Sliders

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Use external hosting for Videos

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● SG Optimizer ● WP Rocket Minify JS and CSS

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● Super Cacher ● WP Rocket ● WP Super Cache Enable Caching

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● CloudFlare ● Amazon CDN Enable CDN

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● SG Optimizer ● PageSpeed Ninja Enable GZIP Compression

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● Up to 15-20% speed gains more than with Gzip Brotli

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Reduce Number of Posts on the Index Settings -> Reading Settings -> Blog pages show at most

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Manage volume of comments ● WP Admin: Settings - > Discussion - > Break comments into pages

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Minimize the Use of External Scripts

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Themes and Plugins

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Themes ● Lightweight ● Reputable ● Mobile friendly

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Plugins ● Don’t overlap functionalities ● Delete if not using ● Keep plugins (and themes) up to date

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Hosting Technology Security Support

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Time for Q&A

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Katerina Angelova Aﬃliates Partnerships Manager @SiteGround katerina.a@siteground.com katerina-angelova katerina.a_6 Thank you!