WordCamp Jacksonville 2016

I was happy to have the opportunity to present at WordCamp Jacksonville. It was held for the first time at Florida State College of Jacksonville on April 16th and 17th.
My talk was for the User track about Improving Website Speed.

Direct link to the slides from this presentation:

We discussed:

• Why you should care about your website’s speed
• How improving website speed impacted well known big companies
• What affects page speed
• Several online tools to measure website speed and interpret the results
• How fast is fast enough?
• How to compare your website speed to your competitors
• How to improve your website speed
• We also discussed new HTTP/2 protocol and how it impacts website speed

I mentioned several plugins and tools. I thought to compile a list here:

Free tools to measure website speed:

GT Metrix
Pingdom Tools
Google Page Speed Insights
Webpagetest.org
What does my site cost?
P3 Plugin Performance Profiler – measures plugin impact
Uptime Robot – notifies you when your website goes down

Resources to improve website speed:

Image optimization and compression:
EWWW Image Optimizer
Tinypng.com – Web Interface
Compress JPEG & PNG images – WordPress Plugin
Kraken.io – Web Interface
Kraken WordPress Plugin
Imsanity – image resizing

Should I Use a Carousel?

Reducing requests and concatenation:
Autoptimize
Minqueue
WP Rocket
Comet Cache Pro (former ZenCache)

Caching:
WP Rocket
WP Fastest Cache
WP Super Cache
W3 Total Cache
Comet Cache (Former ZenCache)

Gzip Compression:
GZip Compression Test
Add gzip compression to .htaccess

CDNs:
CloudFlare
MaxCDN

Remove Query Strings:
Remove Query Strings from Static Resources Plugin
Code to remove query strings

Check for broken links
Broken Link Check
Broken link Checker plugin

HTTP/2 protocol:
HTTP/2 protocol Test
HTTP/2 indicator Chrome browser extension
HTTP/2 indicator Firefox browser extension

Thank you everyone who came to hear me speak. Let me know if you have any questions.