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
2. The secrets to building lightning fast WordPress sites Mark Wilkinson Co-founder & developer at Highrise Digital https://highrise.digital @wpmark
3. Why is speed important?
4. First impressions
5. Conversion rates
6. SEO
7. Help the environment
8. How do we measure web page speed?
9. Page speed tools
10. Google Core Web Vitals
11. https://web.dev/vitals/
12. Steps to improve site speed
13. Evaluate site speed for everything
14. Eliminate render blocking resources
15. Defer off-screen images
16. Optimise images
17. Optimise the use of web fonts
18. font-display: swap;
19. <link rel=“preload” />
20. Make use of caching
21. Improve your hosting
22. Page speed wins!
23. Mark Wilkinson Co-owner of Highrise Digital WordPress developer Golf addict! Twitter: @wpmark Twitter: @highrisedigital Instagram: @techiegolfer Web: https://highrise.digital
24. Questions ? Although not necessarily answers! @wpmark