The secrets to building lightning fast WordPress sites

Making websites as fast as possible in really important for many reasons. In this presentation I outline why website speed is important, how we can measure website speed and what we can do to make our sites faster.

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1. The secrets to building
   lightning fast
   WordPress sites
   Mark Wilkinson
   Co-founder & developer at Highrise Digital
   https://highrise.digital
   @wpmark
   

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2. The secrets to building
   lightning fast
   WordPress sites
   Mark Wilkinson
   Co-founder & developer at Highrise Digital
   https://highrise.digital
   @wpmark
   

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3. Why is speed
   important?
   

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4. First impressions
   

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5. Conversion rates
   

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6. SEO
   

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7. Help the
   environment
   

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8. How do we measure
   web page speed?
   

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9. Page speed tools
   

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10. Google
    Core Web Vitals
    

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11. https://web.dev/vitals/
    

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12. Steps to improve site
    speed
    

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13. Evaluate site speed
    for everything
    

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14. Eliminate render
    blocking resources
    

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15. Defer off-screen
    images
    

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16. Optimise images
    

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17. Optimise the use of
    web fonts
    

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18. font-display: swap;
    

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20. Make use of caching
    

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21. Improve your hosting
    

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22. Page speed wins!
    

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23. Mark Wilkinson
    Co-owner of Highrise Digital
    WordPress developer
    Golf addict!
    Twitter: @wpmark
    Twitter: @highrisedigital
    Instagram: @techiegolfer
    Web: https://highrise.digital
    

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24. Questions ?
    Although not necessarily answers!
    @wpmark
    

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