I was happy to speak at WordCamp Orlando. This event was held on November 12-13, 2016 at the UCF Rosen College of Hospitality Management.
We discussed why website speed is so important, how you can test it, how to compare page load time to competitor’s, and how to improve it. We also discussed new HTTP/2 protocol, and how it can help load pages faster.
Direct link to the slides from presentation: “Speed Up your website and improve performance”.
Here are the resources and links that I mentioned in this presentation:
Free tools to measure website speed:
GT Metrix
Pingdom Tools
Google Page Speed Insights
Webpagetest.org
How to read waterfall chart
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
Compress JPEG & PNG images – WordPress Plugin
Kraken.io – Web Interface
Kraken WordPress Plugin
Imsanity – image resizing
Caching:
WP Rocket
WP Fastest Cache
WP Super Cache
Comet Cache (Former ZenCache)
Gzip Compression:
GZip Compression Test
Add gzip compression to .htaccess
Concatenate / Minify
Autoptimize Plugin
CDNs:
CloudFlare
MaxCDN
Check for broken links
Broken Link Check
Broken link Checker plugin
HTTP/2 protocol:
HTTP/2 protocol Test
Browsers that support HTTP/2 protocol
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.
