Speed Up Your Site! (Intermediate)

Did you know the average user will wait only 2-3 seconds waiting for a webpage to load before abandoning it forever? Having a fast website is critical to its success. How do you ensure your site loads fast and reliably, to all kinds of users around the world? In this presentation we’ll discuss seven strategies for increasing your WordPress site’s speed.

Covering caching, content delivery networks, image optimization, file optimization, database cleaning, and hosting and theme choices, you’re guaranteed to leave this presentation with concrete next steps for improving your site’s performance.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Understand many components that go into determining site speed.
  • Use free tools to measure and monitor speed and performance of WordPress-based websites.
  • Create and modify websites to perform faster, better, stronger!

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About meagan hanes

Digital Designer of Interactive Internet things. Past: Carleton University, IBM, Epiphan, Solace. 3 of 4 are now Solid WordPressin' To The Future. Current: WordPress, indieweb, Web0.club, Bluesky, and retrofitting Pies into All You Can Eat Buffets of Good Wordy Knowledge!