This document provides guidance on optimizing a WordPress website to improve Google PageSpeed scores. It recommends optimizing JavaScript and CSS by combining and minifying files, deferring non-critical scripts, and using plugins. It also recommends optimizing images using plugins like ShortPixel or WP-Smushit to compress large images. Following these steps, the author was able to increase their mobile speed score from 62 to 95 and desktop suggestion score from 72 to 85.
How to Fix a Slow WordPress Site (and get A+ scores)Lewis Ogden
Full Guide - https://bitsfrombytes.com/why-is-wordpress-slow/
In this site speed optimization guide, we provide 25-Tips to get blazing fast website speeds of under 0.5s.
There's no question about it. A slow website will cost you sales. WordPress website speed can sometimes be difficult to tackle.
We've put together a guide on improving your WordPress website loading times. Our WordPress speed guide is perfect for those who want to learn how to speed up their WordPress website in 2019.
Let us know what you think!
This document is a roadmap for web development created by Google DSC at King Abdulaziz University. It outlines sections for front-end development, back-end development, and design. Each section lists languages and tools to learn along with estimated timeframes and links to resources. The roadmap recommends spending 20% of time on crash courses, 30% applying knowledge, and 50% building projects. It aims to guide learners through a structured plan to become full-stack web developers.
Need for Speed: Website Edition – Website Optimization Tools and Techniques P...Devin Walker
It requires 50% more concentration when using badly performing website. Make it easier for your users, not harder…
A faster website can help your website in many ways. The faster the website, the lower the bounce rate and the higher the conversions. This mean higher sales, ad revenue and ultimately money.
Here are 10 ways you can speed up your website:
Hosting Provider – Who is hosting your website and how are they hosting it?
Utilize Caching – Page Cache, Database Cache, Object Cache, Browser Cache, Reverse Proxy
Combine CSS and JS files – Load JS in the footer whenever possible
Use a CDN -A Content Delivery Network (CDN) will ‘put a rocket behind your static content’
Reduce and Optimize Images – Use CSS3 whenever and wherever possible, save images for web
Use Compression – Save bandwidth and speed up your website
Use Sprites – Load JS in the footer whenever possible
Monitor Your Website – CPU usage, Physical Memory, Average Load, Disk I/O utilization, Network I/O
Optimize your Database Regularly – Optimizing database tables regularly will help improve website performance
Mobile and Tablet Optimization – Use CSS3 Media Queries, JS and service-side technology to speed up devices
WordPress SEO Site Optimization Strategies & TechniquesJeff Kemp
This document provides strategies for optimizing a WordPress site for SEO, including setting up analytics and plugins, optimizing on-page elements like titles and images, improving page speed, adding internal and external links, and using link directories to build backlinks. It recommends plugins and tools for each task and emphasizes measuring success through analytics to track SERP performance and page rank over time.
The document discusses the importance of website performance and provides tips to build responsive websites. It notes that users expect pages to load within 2 seconds and will leave slow sites. The tips include reducing HTTP requests, gzipping and minifying components, optimizing images, delivering JavaScript and CSS efficiently, lazy loading images, and inlining critical CSS. Following these foundations and techniques can significantly improve load times and user experience.
In this presentation, I have shown how a webpage is loaded on your viewport after you request for the same. The process is simple. Once you click on the URL, the browser makes a request to the webserver. The request is processed by the webserver.
Web server files the response to the request and sends it to the browser. The requested page is sent to the web browser. The browser then loads and renders the page content. The requested page is then shown on the viewport.
How to Fix a Slow WordPress Site (and get A+ scores)Lewis Ogden
Full Guide - https://bitsfrombytes.com/why-is-wordpress-slow/
In this site speed optimization guide, we provide 25-Tips to get blazing fast website speeds of under 0.5s.
There's no question about it. A slow website will cost you sales. WordPress website speed can sometimes be difficult to tackle.
We've put together a guide on improving your WordPress website loading times. Our WordPress speed guide is perfect for those who want to learn how to speed up their WordPress website in 2019.
Let us know what you think!
This document is a roadmap for web development created by Google DSC at King Abdulaziz University. It outlines sections for front-end development, back-end development, and design. Each section lists languages and tools to learn along with estimated timeframes and links to resources. The roadmap recommends spending 20% of time on crash courses, 30% applying knowledge, and 50% building projects. It aims to guide learners through a structured plan to become full-stack web developers.
Need for Speed: Website Edition – Website Optimization Tools and Techniques P...Devin Walker
It requires 50% more concentration when using badly performing website. Make it easier for your users, not harder…
A faster website can help your website in many ways. The faster the website, the lower the bounce rate and the higher the conversions. This mean higher sales, ad revenue and ultimately money.
Here are 10 ways you can speed up your website:
Hosting Provider – Who is hosting your website and how are they hosting it?
Utilize Caching – Page Cache, Database Cache, Object Cache, Browser Cache, Reverse Proxy
Combine CSS and JS files – Load JS in the footer whenever possible
Use a CDN -A Content Delivery Network (CDN) will ‘put a rocket behind your static content’
Reduce and Optimize Images – Use CSS3 whenever and wherever possible, save images for web
Use Compression – Save bandwidth and speed up your website
Use Sprites – Load JS in the footer whenever possible
Monitor Your Website – CPU usage, Physical Memory, Average Load, Disk I/O utilization, Network I/O
Optimize your Database Regularly – Optimizing database tables regularly will help improve website performance
Mobile and Tablet Optimization – Use CSS3 Media Queries, JS and service-side technology to speed up devices
WordPress SEO Site Optimization Strategies & TechniquesJeff Kemp
This document provides strategies for optimizing a WordPress site for SEO, including setting up analytics and plugins, optimizing on-page elements like titles and images, improving page speed, adding internal and external links, and using link directories to build backlinks. It recommends plugins and tools for each task and emphasizes measuring success through analytics to track SERP performance and page rank over time.
The document discusses the importance of website performance and provides tips to build responsive websites. It notes that users expect pages to load within 2 seconds and will leave slow sites. The tips include reducing HTTP requests, gzipping and minifying components, optimizing images, delivering JavaScript and CSS efficiently, lazy loading images, and inlining critical CSS. Following these foundations and techniques can significantly improve load times and user experience.
In this presentation, I have shown how a webpage is loaded on your viewport after you request for the same. The process is simple. Once you click on the URL, the browser makes a request to the webserver. The request is processed by the webserver.
Web server files the response to the request and sends it to the browser. The requested page is sent to the web browser. The browser then loads and renders the page content. The requested page is then shown on the viewport.
hether you run a high traffic WordPress installation or a small blog on a low cost shared host, you should optimize WordPress and your server to run as efficiently as possible. This article provides a broad overview of WordPress optimization with specific recommended approaches. However, it's not a detailed technical explanation of each aspect.
Measuring Web Performance (HighEdWeb FL Edition)Dave Olsen
Today, a web page can be delivered to desktop computers, televisions, or handheld devices like tablets or phones. While a technique like responsive design helps ensure that our web sites look good across that spectrum of devices we may forget that we need to make sure that our web sites also perform well across that same spectrum. More and more of our users are shifting their Internet usage to these more varied platforms and connection speeds with some moving entirely to mobile Internet.
In this session we’ll look at the tools that can help you understand, measure and improve the web performance of your web sites and applications. The talk will also discuss how new server-side techniques might help us optimize our front-end performance. Finally, since the best way to test is to have devices in your hand, we’ll discuss some tips for getting your hands on them cheaply.
This presentation builds upon Dave’s “Optimization for Mobile” chapter in Smashing Magazine’s “The Mobile Book.”
This talk was given at HighEdWeb Florida.
SearchLove San Diego 2018 | Mat Clayton | Site Speed for Digital MarketersDistilled
We all know that site speed matters not only for users but also for search rankings. As marketers, how can we measure and improve the impact of site speed? Mat will cover a range of topics and tools, from the basic quick wins to some of the more surprising and cutting-edge techniques used by the largest websites in the world.
It is actually possible to manage all of your WordPress tasks on plugins, themes, database, site migration, etc through command line interface using WP-CLI tool. Slides covers basic part on getting started with WP-CLI and letting you know how to manage each tasks easily and efficiently. This tool powers up your productivity and saves time that you spend on loading browser while doing your work.
[QCon 2011] Por uma web mais rápida: técnicas de otimização de SitesCaelum
The document discusses techniques for optimizing websites to load faster. It provides 12 tips for optimization including enabling GZIP compression, minifying JavaScript and CSS, optimizing image sizes and formats, reducing the number of requests, and combining files. Performance statistics are given showing how even small reductions in load times can significantly increase user engagement and sales.
Implementing a Responsive Image StrategyChris Love
Applications must implement responsive web design strategies today. However most developers are not experienced in responsive techniques. More over images have provided a difficult hurdle for developers and business stakeholders to make responsive.
A proper responsive web design strategy increases return on investment, reduces long term maintenance requirements and improves application performance. Images create many challenges in implementing responsive design.
This session will explain what responsive images are. How new web standards have enabled manageable responsive image practices. We will go over tooling and techniques to enable responsive images in your developer and line of business workflows.
When you leave this session you will have actionable knowledge of responsive images, techniques, tooling and workflow options you can apply to your projects now.
Make WordPress Faster with W3 Total Cache & CloudflareMarshall Reyher
Speed up WordPress by installing and configuring W3 Total Cache and CloudFlare with this helpful guide. Download and import my settings file to help you get up and running quickly.
SearchLove San Diego 2018 | Tom Anthony | An Introduction to HTTP/2 & Service...Distilled
HTTP/2 and Service Works are becoming more established, yet the SEO community lacks awareness of what they are what they may mean for us. A lot of us know we need to know about them but we manage to keep putting it off. However, for both of these technologies, the next 12 months are going to be the turning point where we really can't avoid learning more about them. Tom will provide and accessible introduction to both, with a focus on what they are, how they work and what SEOs need to know. If you have been scared of jumping in to them until now, this session will help get you up to speed.
Presenter - Mary White
Mary is the owner of MW for Designs (MWforDesigns.com) and she teaches website design with Html, CSS , Dreamweaver and WordPress in the Johnson County Community College continuing education department.
• Learn why you NEED to optimize your website
• Learn how to check your website speed
• Learn all the "small things" you can do to speed up your website
• Discover the most useful WordPress plugins to optimize your website
• Need more? Get some advanced tips to speed up your site
• Learn basic maintenance techniques to KEEP your site running fast
According to HTTPArchive.org the average web page is now larger than the original DOOM installation application. Today's obese web is leading to decreased user satisfaction, customer engagement and increased cost of ownership. Research repeatedly tells us customers want faster user experiences. Search engines reward faster sites with better rankings. Small, fast sites are cheaper to develop, maintain and operate.
- Why has the web become obese?
- What actions can developers and stakeholders do to combat their morbid obesity?
- Are these actions expensive or hard to implement?
This session reviews what customers want and how to identify your web site's love handles. More importantly you will learn simple techniques to eliminate the fat and create a healthy, maintainable, affordable web development lifestyle that produces the user experiences your customers want to engage with over and over.
With the growth of mobile devices, performance is now more important than ever. But the web is actually getting slower! Fight back by learning how to monitor performance, the critical rendering path and finding where to optimize.
Minimize website page loading time – 20+ advanced SEO tipsCgColors
Website Page speed is a big ranking factor and we all know that. Google has already announced that they will give less priority to slow sites and even mark site with SLOW tag in SERPs.
Lets understand what makes your site slow and how can you make your site lightening fast..If your website is also struggling with slow page load time..checkout our tips here http://www.cgcolors.com/blog/minimize-website-page-loading-time-20-advanced-seo-tips/
You can contact our page load optimization experts - hi@cgcolors.com | 347-732-2736
The 5 most common reasons for a slow WordPress site and how to fix them – ext...Otto Kekäläinen
Presentation given in WP Meetup in October 2019.
Includes fresh new tips from summer/fall 2019!
A Must read for all WordPress site owners and developers.
implement lighthouse-ci with your web development workflowWordPress
This presentation is about implementing the performance as first approach in web development and a bit of real case study. Then implement the Lighthouse-CI in the development workflow to keep the site performance high.
In the beginning, progressive enhancement was simple: HTML layered with CSS layered with JavaScript. That worked fine when there were two browsers, but in today's world of multiple devices and multiple browsers, it's time for a progressive enhancement reboot. At the core is the understanding that the web is not print - the same rules don't apply. As developers and consumers we've been fooled into thinking about print paradigms for too long. In this talk, you'll learn just how different the web is and how the evolution of progressive enhancement can lead to better user experiences as well as happier developers and users.
This deck is a conference-agnostic one, suitable to be shown anywhere without site-specific jokes!
Optimizing web performance (Fronteers edition)Dave Olsen
Today, a web page can be delivered to desktop computers, televisions, or handheld devices like tablets or phones. While a technique like responsive design helps ensure that our web sites look good across that spectrum of devices we may forget that we need to make sure that our web sites also perform well across that same spectrum. More and more of our users are shifting their Internet usage to these more varied platforms and connection speeds with some moving entirely to mobile Internet.
In this session we’ll look at the tools that can help you understand, measure and improve the web performance of your web sites and applications. The talk will also discuss how new server-side techniques might help us optimize our front-end performance. Finally, since the best way to test is to have devices in your hand, we’ll discuss some tips for getting your hands on them cheaply.
The document provides tips for optimizing the speed of a WordPress site. It recommends benchmarking loading times to identify performance issues, prioritizing problems by severity and fix time, reducing page size by limiting posts per page and using progressive loading. Other tips include minimizing social widgets and external fonts, optimizing images, avoiding bloated themes, minifying CSS and JS, enabling compression, leveraging browser caching, moving scripts to footers, caching content, and using object caching and CDNs. Regular optimization is important to see ongoing rewards in site speed.
Introduction to Optimizing WordPress for Website SpeedNile Flores
The document provides an introduction to optimizing WordPress for website speed. It discusses optimizing various areas like plugins, themes, cache, images, CSS, and JavaScript. It recommends using a caching plugin, optimizing images by reducing file sizes, minifying CSS and JavaScript, and using a content delivery network. Regular updates and testing website speed using tools like GTMetrix are also advised to improve load times and user experience.
Do you want to speed up your website performance quickly? Learn how to quickly improve your WordPress website performance in under 30 mins by following just 15 simple steps
hether you run a high traffic WordPress installation or a small blog on a low cost shared host, you should optimize WordPress and your server to run as efficiently as possible. This article provides a broad overview of WordPress optimization with specific recommended approaches. However, it's not a detailed technical explanation of each aspect.
Measuring Web Performance (HighEdWeb FL Edition)Dave Olsen
Today, a web page can be delivered to desktop computers, televisions, or handheld devices like tablets or phones. While a technique like responsive design helps ensure that our web sites look good across that spectrum of devices we may forget that we need to make sure that our web sites also perform well across that same spectrum. More and more of our users are shifting their Internet usage to these more varied platforms and connection speeds with some moving entirely to mobile Internet.
In this session we’ll look at the tools that can help you understand, measure and improve the web performance of your web sites and applications. The talk will also discuss how new server-side techniques might help us optimize our front-end performance. Finally, since the best way to test is to have devices in your hand, we’ll discuss some tips for getting your hands on them cheaply.
This presentation builds upon Dave’s “Optimization for Mobile” chapter in Smashing Magazine’s “The Mobile Book.”
This talk was given at HighEdWeb Florida.
SearchLove San Diego 2018 | Mat Clayton | Site Speed for Digital MarketersDistilled
We all know that site speed matters not only for users but also for search rankings. As marketers, how can we measure and improve the impact of site speed? Mat will cover a range of topics and tools, from the basic quick wins to some of the more surprising and cutting-edge techniques used by the largest websites in the world.
It is actually possible to manage all of your WordPress tasks on plugins, themes, database, site migration, etc through command line interface using WP-CLI tool. Slides covers basic part on getting started with WP-CLI and letting you know how to manage each tasks easily and efficiently. This tool powers up your productivity and saves time that you spend on loading browser while doing your work.
[QCon 2011] Por uma web mais rápida: técnicas de otimização de SitesCaelum
The document discusses techniques for optimizing websites to load faster. It provides 12 tips for optimization including enabling GZIP compression, minifying JavaScript and CSS, optimizing image sizes and formats, reducing the number of requests, and combining files. Performance statistics are given showing how even small reductions in load times can significantly increase user engagement and sales.
Implementing a Responsive Image StrategyChris Love
Applications must implement responsive web design strategies today. However most developers are not experienced in responsive techniques. More over images have provided a difficult hurdle for developers and business stakeholders to make responsive.
A proper responsive web design strategy increases return on investment, reduces long term maintenance requirements and improves application performance. Images create many challenges in implementing responsive design.
This session will explain what responsive images are. How new web standards have enabled manageable responsive image practices. We will go over tooling and techniques to enable responsive images in your developer and line of business workflows.
When you leave this session you will have actionable knowledge of responsive images, techniques, tooling and workflow options you can apply to your projects now.
Make WordPress Faster with W3 Total Cache & CloudflareMarshall Reyher
Speed up WordPress by installing and configuring W3 Total Cache and CloudFlare with this helpful guide. Download and import my settings file to help you get up and running quickly.
SearchLove San Diego 2018 | Tom Anthony | An Introduction to HTTP/2 & Service...Distilled
HTTP/2 and Service Works are becoming more established, yet the SEO community lacks awareness of what they are what they may mean for us. A lot of us know we need to know about them but we manage to keep putting it off. However, for both of these technologies, the next 12 months are going to be the turning point where we really can't avoid learning more about them. Tom will provide and accessible introduction to both, with a focus on what they are, how they work and what SEOs need to know. If you have been scared of jumping in to them until now, this session will help get you up to speed.
Presenter - Mary White
Mary is the owner of MW for Designs (MWforDesigns.com) and she teaches website design with Html, CSS , Dreamweaver and WordPress in the Johnson County Community College continuing education department.
• Learn why you NEED to optimize your website
• Learn how to check your website speed
• Learn all the "small things" you can do to speed up your website
• Discover the most useful WordPress plugins to optimize your website
• Need more? Get some advanced tips to speed up your site
• Learn basic maintenance techniques to KEEP your site running fast
According to HTTPArchive.org the average web page is now larger than the original DOOM installation application. Today's obese web is leading to decreased user satisfaction, customer engagement and increased cost of ownership. Research repeatedly tells us customers want faster user experiences. Search engines reward faster sites with better rankings. Small, fast sites are cheaper to develop, maintain and operate.
- Why has the web become obese?
- What actions can developers and stakeholders do to combat their morbid obesity?
- Are these actions expensive or hard to implement?
This session reviews what customers want and how to identify your web site's love handles. More importantly you will learn simple techniques to eliminate the fat and create a healthy, maintainable, affordable web development lifestyle that produces the user experiences your customers want to engage with over and over.
With the growth of mobile devices, performance is now more important than ever. But the web is actually getting slower! Fight back by learning how to monitor performance, the critical rendering path and finding where to optimize.
Minimize website page loading time – 20+ advanced SEO tipsCgColors
Website Page speed is a big ranking factor and we all know that. Google has already announced that they will give less priority to slow sites and even mark site with SLOW tag in SERPs.
Lets understand what makes your site slow and how can you make your site lightening fast..If your website is also struggling with slow page load time..checkout our tips here http://www.cgcolors.com/blog/minimize-website-page-loading-time-20-advanced-seo-tips/
You can contact our page load optimization experts - hi@cgcolors.com | 347-732-2736
The 5 most common reasons for a slow WordPress site and how to fix them – ext...Otto Kekäläinen
Presentation given in WP Meetup in October 2019.
Includes fresh new tips from summer/fall 2019!
A Must read for all WordPress site owners and developers.
implement lighthouse-ci with your web development workflowWordPress
This presentation is about implementing the performance as first approach in web development and a bit of real case study. Then implement the Lighthouse-CI in the development workflow to keep the site performance high.
In the beginning, progressive enhancement was simple: HTML layered with CSS layered with JavaScript. That worked fine when there were two browsers, but in today's world of multiple devices and multiple browsers, it's time for a progressive enhancement reboot. At the core is the understanding that the web is not print - the same rules don't apply. As developers and consumers we've been fooled into thinking about print paradigms for too long. In this talk, you'll learn just how different the web is and how the evolution of progressive enhancement can lead to better user experiences as well as happier developers and users.
This deck is a conference-agnostic one, suitable to be shown anywhere without site-specific jokes!
Optimizing web performance (Fronteers edition)Dave Olsen
Today, a web page can be delivered to desktop computers, televisions, or handheld devices like tablets or phones. While a technique like responsive design helps ensure that our web sites look good across that spectrum of devices we may forget that we need to make sure that our web sites also perform well across that same spectrum. More and more of our users are shifting their Internet usage to these more varied platforms and connection speeds with some moving entirely to mobile Internet.
In this session we’ll look at the tools that can help you understand, measure and improve the web performance of your web sites and applications. The talk will also discuss how new server-side techniques might help us optimize our front-end performance. Finally, since the best way to test is to have devices in your hand, we’ll discuss some tips for getting your hands on them cheaply.
The document provides tips for optimizing the speed of a WordPress site. It recommends benchmarking loading times to identify performance issues, prioritizing problems by severity and fix time, reducing page size by limiting posts per page and using progressive loading. Other tips include minimizing social widgets and external fonts, optimizing images, avoiding bloated themes, minifying CSS and JS, enabling compression, leveraging browser caching, moving scripts to footers, caching content, and using object caching and CDNs. Regular optimization is important to see ongoing rewards in site speed.
Introduction to Optimizing WordPress for Website SpeedNile Flores
The document provides an introduction to optimizing WordPress for website speed. It discusses optimizing various areas like plugins, themes, cache, images, CSS, and JavaScript. It recommends using a caching plugin, optimizing images by reducing file sizes, minifying CSS and JavaScript, and using a content delivery network. Regular updates and testing website speed using tools like GTMetrix are also advised to improve load times and user experience.
Do you want to speed up your website performance quickly? Learn how to quickly improve your WordPress website performance in under 30 mins by following just 15 simple steps
Ctrl+F5 Bangalore 2017: Super charge you word press website by Justin ThomasResellerClub
Justin delves into the issues encountered by WordPress Developers and Designers with different kinds of Hosting, looks at the solutions, learns how to ensure limits are not breached with your hosting provider and how to get the best performance for your website without overspending on infrastructure.
The document discusses page speed and provides tips for optimizing website page speed. It introduces tools like Google Page Speed and Yahoo YSlow for measuring page speed. It then provides steps on how to use these tools and makes recommendations for improving page speed through image optimization, CSS and JavaScript minification, reducing errors, caching assets, and reducing the number of HTTP requests and third party widgets.
Core Web Vitals SEO Workshop - improve your performance [pdf]Peter Mead
Core Web Vitals to improve your website performance for better SEO results with CWV.
CWV Topics include:
- Understanding the latest Core Web Vitals including the significance of LCP, INP and CLS + their impact on SEO
- Optimisation techniques from our experts on how to improve your CWV on platforms like WordPress and WP Engine
- The impact of user experience and SEO
This document discusses how to properly conduct website SEO audits. It recommends segmenting audits by page types, going beyond just reporting issues to identifying their root causes, establishing a structured audit process, using tools to assist but not rely on solely, and prioritizing recommendations by factors like potential impact. The goal of an audit is to improve a website's search engine performance by surfacing issues negatively affecting it and opportunities to enhance it.
WordPress SEO in 2014 - WordCamp Baltimore 2014Arsham Mirshah
This document contains the notes from a WordPress and SEO technical talk given at the Baltimore WordCamp on October 18, 2014. It discusses optimizing WordPress websites for search engines and users through on-page SEO techniques like optimizing page URLs, title tags, meta descriptions and internal linking. It also covers off-page SEO and recommends plugins to help with tasks like image optimization, caching, and XML sitemaps. The presenter's overall message is to make websites easy for users and search engines to access, understand and digest content.
Site speed is a ranking factor in Google, and for good reason. Visitors have a short attention span, and will quickly navigate away from a slow website, especially on mobile. This presentation covers essential tools and techniques for improving your load times and PageSpeed score, such as caching, image optimization, and plugin performance.
A plugin is a software that adds new or specific functionality to a program without altering the program’s code. Add capabilities whenever you want! Read the PPT for more information.
Boosting your conversion rate through web performance improvementsAlyss Noland
This document discusses ways to improve web performance and boost conversion rates. It begins by explaining how slow page loads can negatively impact businesses, costing Amazon $1.6 billion per year for every second of slowdown. The document then discusses various metrics that impact performance like page size, number of HTTP requests and JavaScript size. It provides tips for testing and improving performance, such as optimizing images, minifying files, leveraging caching and CDNs. The document stresses that web performance optimization is an ongoing process of testing, setting budgets and refactoring code over time.
This document summarizes a presentation about improving WordPress performance and security. It provides tips for optimizing WordPress like avoiding unnecessary plugins, caching, image optimization techniques like sprites, and setting expiration headers. It warns that WordPress is a major target for hackers due to its popularity and that web hosts are restricting plugins for security. It emphasizes monitoring the site for changes to protect it.
Improve Blog Loading Time using WordPress Plugins by Minifying ScriptsBlashO
These WordPress Plugins helps to quickly improve your blogs loading time to great extent. Minifying the JavaScript, CSS Scripts is one of the most common optimization strategy in web development.
Website Optimization How to Increase Page Performance and More Boundify
Join us for our sixth Greenville HUG meeting of 2023 and learn how to fix common website issues including improving website performance, enhancing SEO for a website, optimizing a website for mobile, implementing website security best practices, and website personalization.
SEO 101 - Google Page Speed Insights Explained Steve Weber
During our second SEO webinar lesson, we spoke about the importance of site speed. We ran through an explanation of the Google Page Speed insights tool and how to take care of the most common optimizations the tool sugests to site oweners.
This document discusses how to improve website speed by optimizing page loading performance. It provides tips for reducing render-blocking scripts, minifying files, prioritizing visible content, lazy loading below the fold content, optimizing images, leveraging browser caching with custom expire headers, reducing server response time, and enabling GZIP compression. Tools mentioned for measuring site speed include Google PageSpeed Insights and GTMetrix.
Measuring Web Performance - HighEdWeb EditionDave Olsen
Today, a Web page can be delivered to desktop computers, televisions, or handheld devices like tablets or phones. While a technique like responsive design helps ensure that our websites look good across that spectrum of devices we may forget that we need to make sure that our websites also perform well across that same spectrum. More and more of our users are shifting their Internet usage to these more varied platforms and connection speeds with some moving entirely to mobile Internet. In this session, we’ll look at the tools that can help you understand, measure and improve the performance of your websites and applications. The talk will also discuss how new server-side techniques might help us optimize our front-end performance. Finally, since the best way to test is to have devices in your hand, we’ll discuss some tips for getting your hands on them cheaply. This presentation builds upon Dave Olsen’s “Optimization for Mobile” chapter in Smashing Magazine’s “The Mobile Book.”
The document discusses HTML5 Boilerplate, which is a popular front-end template that helps developers build fast, robust, and adaptable web apps or sites. It includes tools like Modernizr, which detects HTML5 and CSS3 browser support, and HTML5 Shiv, which allows styling of HTML5 elements in older IE browsers. Using HTML5 Boilerplate follows best practices for performance, like minifying code and setting the viewport.
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HijackLoader Evolution: Interactive Process HollowingDonato Onofri
CrowdStrike researchers have identified a HijackLoader (aka IDAT Loader) sample that employs sophisticated evasion techniques to enhance the complexity of the threat. HijackLoader, an increasingly popular tool among adversaries for deploying additional payloads and tooling, continues to evolve as its developers experiment and enhance its capabilities.
In their analysis of a recent HijackLoader sample, CrowdStrike researchers discovered new techniques designed to increase the defense evasion capabilities of the loader. The malware developer used a standard process hollowing technique coupled with an additional trigger that was activated by the parent process writing to a pipe. This new approach, called "Interactive Process Hollowing", has the potential to make defense evasion stealthier.
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The Situation
► You have stumbled upon the Google PageSpeed Insights tool and are
mortified by the score your website has received. You are not alone,
and there is hope! Google offers generic guides on how to resolve
some of the issues found with your website, but depending on the
platform your website it built on and your
web-development experience, there are vastly different ways of
solving these issues.
► This will be most helpful for those who have a WordPress website
and minimal coding know-how. It covers two of the biggest factors to
increasing your page speed score:
• Optimizing JavaScript and CSS
• Shrinking images
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The Situation
► Following the steps set forth in this article series, I was able to
improve our Google PageSpeed Mobile Site Speed score from 62 to
95 and our Desktop Suggestion score from 72 to 85.
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Why Should I Care About my Google PageSpeed Score?
► Google announced back in 2010 that your website's speed is part of
the algorithm to determine your website's Google ranking. Google
also recently announced that they will soon be taking into
consideration mobile site speed in their rankings as well.
► If site speed matters to Google in their search engine rankings, then
it should matter to you. Google’s PageSpeed Insights tool gives you,
well, insights into how to speed up your site.
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Have a Low PageSpeed Score? You’re in Good Company
► Google's PageSpeed Insights tool is a great place to start in determining potential
website speed improvements, but keep in mind that it is not the only page speed
analyzer and should not be considered the ultimate source of the truth!
► In fact, if you have run Google PageSpeed Insights on your site and received an
abysmally low score - you are in good company! Check out the PageSpeed score for
Twitter, Facebook, and Mashable. At the time of this writing, all 3 of these
sites have a Mobile Speed score of 60 or lower.
► It is actually generally recognized among webmasters that Google PageSpeed is
not the best measuring stick for actual page speed. It is important (and helpful!) to
run tests on other website analyzers as well.1,2
► Here are some of the better website speed analyzers I've tried:
• GTMetrix
• WebPageTest
• Pingdom
• ShowSlow
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A Few Important Notes Before We Start
► Most of this was A LOT of trial and error. I spent a lot of time testing
my site to ensure it still worked after every change, and I re-ran
PageSpeed Insights after every change to see what made a
difference.
► My set-up (the closer your set-up is to this, then the more helpful this
guide will probably be for you):
• Using WordPress
• Using Revolution Slider
• Using Google Fonts
• Using WPEngine as my host which restricts some plugins - I cannot use "W3
Total Cache" or “WP Rocket" which is widely recommended by the online
community to resolve PageSpeed issues.
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Guide to Optimizing JavaScript and CSS in a WordPress Website
► If you have gotten the following warnings from Google PageSpeed
insights, we are here to help:
• Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold
content... This causes a delay in rendering your page.
• Optimize CSS Delivery of the following...
• Remove render-blocking JavaScript…
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The Two Biggest Factors in Reducing the Time it Takes to Load JavaScript Are:
1. Combining the scripts into as few files as possible.
• WordPress sites are especially susceptible to loading many scripts upon page
load. This is because plugins and themes often each have their own scripts that
need to be loaded in order to function. In a more traditional website, the
developer would have more control over these scripts and manually combine
them to reduce the overhead upon page load.
2. Deferring the loading of “non-critical” scripts.
• This often involves moving scripts to the bottom of the page. When a browser is
loading your page, it typically loads things in parallel until it encounters a script.
Nothing else can load while a script loads. Once the script is done loading, the
website can continue rendering everything else. You can see how, especially if
you have many scripts, this can really affect how quickly your page will load.
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Steps to Resolve the “Render-Blocking JavaScript and CSS” PageSpeed Error
► Note: We are tackling both JavaScript and CSS at once because
most of the plugins made for resolving these issues address both.
► Step 1: Resolve any render-blocking plugin scripts by adjusting
plugin settings, if possible.
- Start with analyzing the list of render-blocking scripts Google PageSpeed
provides to you and determine if any of these scripts appear to be coming
from a plugin. If you are able to identify any plugins from the list of scripts,
go to each plugin's settings, one by one, and search for a setting that will
defer the JavaScript or load it asynchronously. If you are unable to identify
any plugins from the list of scripts, or if you do not have any of these plugin
settings available to you, continue on to step 2.
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Steps to Resolve the “Render-Blocking JavaScript and CSS” PageSpeed Error
► Step 1 Continued
• Revolution Slider settings changes:
- In my setup, I noticed that my plugin "Revolution Slider" had several
JavaScripts listed as render-blocking. I searched Revolution Slider settings
for options to load the JavaScript asynchronously or defer it. These are the
options I ended up using:
• In Slider Revolution "Global Settings":
- Include RevSlider libraries globally: ON (my slider broke if I set this to
OFF, but it might be worth trying in your setup)
- Insert JavaScript Into Footer: ON
- Defer JavaScript Loading: OFF (again, this broke my setup if I turned
it on, but it might be worth trying)
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Steps to Resolve the “Render-Blocking JavaScript and CSS” PageSpeed Error
► Step 1 Continued
• In each individual slider presentation settings, I set the following:
- Under Performance and SEO Optimization panel:
§ Lazy Load: Smart
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Steps to Resolve the “Render-Blocking JavaScript and CSS” PageSpeed Error
► Step 1 Continued
• Under Problem Handlings - Troubleshooting
- JQuery No Conflict Mode: OFF
- Put JS Includes To Body: OFF
- Output Filters Protection: None
- Debug Mode: OFF
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Steps to Resolve the “Render-Blocking JavaScript and CSS” PageSpeed Error
► Step 1 Continued
• After changing individual plugin settings, be sure to clear your cache and
test a lot! You don't want something to break on your site.
• Check PageSpeed insights. Making these changes to Slider Revolution
helped reduce the number of render-blocking scripts our site had, but I
still needed help from other plugins to clean up everything else.
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Steps to Resolve the “Render-Blocking JavaScript and CSS” PageSpeed Error
► Step 2: Combine JavaScript and CSS files into a single file (one for
JS and one for CSS) and minify them.
• I use a plugin that does this work for me! This plugin successfully
combines all of my CSS scripts into a single file and minifies it, and it does
the same for my JS files.
- Install the plugin "JS & CSS Script Optimizer" and check the following
settings:
§ Enable the plugin
§ Under the JavaScript settings, select the following
§ Pack JavaScripts: Enabled
§ JavaScripts Minifier: Minify by Steve Clay
§ Combine JavaScripts: Combine and Move all JavaScripts to the bottom
§ Ignore: “jquery.js”
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Steps to Resolve the “Render-Blocking JavaScript and CSS” PageSpeed Error
► Step 2 Continued
• Under the style-sheet settings, select the following:
§ Enable CSS optimizer: Use plugin for CSS
§ Combine CSS: Combine all CSS scripts into the single file
§ Style-sheets packing: Minify CSS files
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Steps to Resolve the “Render-Blocking JavaScript and CSS” PageSpeed Error
► Step 2 Continued
• Clear your cache and re-load your website to make sure nothing has
broken.
• Run Google PageSpeed and see if anything has changed. In my
results, this helped reduce the number of http calls, but PageSpeed
was still hung up on the JS and CSS files being render blocking.
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Steps to Resolve the “Render-Blocking JavaScript and CSS” PageSpeed Error
► Step 3: Resolve the CSS file being render-blocking
• Install the "Autoptimize" plugin and check the following settings:
- Enable Optimize HTML code
- Do NOT enable Optimize JavaScript code
- Enable Optimize CSS Code
§ "Inline and Defer CSS"
► I enabled this option; however, this takes a little bit of research to do
properly.
► This option lets you put "above the fold" CSS in the header so it is
loaded first before loading the rest of the CSS script. This allows the
above-the-fold content styling to load first so it will be rendered as
quickly as possible for the visitor.
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Steps to Resolve the “Render-Blocking JavaScript and CSS” PageSpeed Error
► Step 3 Continued
• I followed this
great guide on how to use the Autoptimize Inline and Defer CSS Option.
• I highly recommend following this guide and enabling this option.
• After this is done, clear your cache and re-load your website to make sure
nothing has broken. It is interesting to note that enabling the "Optimize
JavaScript code" option in my Autoptimize plugin completely crashed my
website, which is why I recommend NOT enabling that function if you have
a set-up that is similar to ours.
• Run Google PageSpeed and see if anything has changed. In my results,
this resolved the render-blocking CSS file on mobile page speed. Now all
that is left is the render-blocking JS file.
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Steps to Resolve the “Render-Blocking JavaScript and CSS” PageSpeed Error
► Step 4: Resolve the JavaScript File Being Render-Blocking
• To resolve the JavaScript file being render-blocking, install the plugin
"Scripts To Footer." Just activate the plugin and that is it! You do not have
to edit any settings. The plugin is automatically enabled when it is
activated.
• Again, clear your cache and re-load your website to make sure nothing
has broken.
• Finally, run Google PageSpeed Insights again. Hopefully your “render
blocking JS and CSS” warnings are now gone! Following the steps above
completely removed this warning for our website, and increased the page
load speed.
• The next step to seeing large performance increases on your site and
improving your Google PageSpeed score is to optimize your images –
covered in the next section!
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Guide to Optimizing Images in a WordPress Website
► “Optimize the following images to reduce their size…”
• This warning is fairly straightforward, thankfully! PageSpeed Insights finds
the images on your page that are large and could be compressed, and
lists them out for you. Compressing images involves making the image file
size smaller, without affecting the quality of the picture to the naked eye.
You could manually compress these images one by one with a desktop or
online program, or you could let a plugin do it for you!
► The following plugins are widely used and well rated:
• ShortPixel – (free account) 100 images/month. No file size limit.
• WP-Smushit – (free account) 1 MB file size limit, bulk option is limited to
50 files at a time.
• EWWW Image Optimizer
• After optimizing images on our site with one of these plugins, this Google
PageSpeed warning went away.
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Additional Ways to Speed Up Your Website
► If you are looking for even more ways to speed up your website, two
things that could make the biggest difference are:
• Using a speedy website host
• Using a Content Delivery Network (CDN)
► In-depth explanations of these two recommendations are beyond the
scope of this article, but for more information check out:
• https://www.codeinwp.com/blog/best-wordpress-hosting/
• http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/why-you-need-a-cdn-for-
your-wordpress-blog-infographic/
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In Summary
► While I hope this guide has been helpful to you, please bear in mind
that there are many different setups in WordPress, and any one
difference in setup can cause these steps to not work for you. The
best results may come after much trial and error.
► Finally, if you are disappointed that you cannot seem to get your
Google PageSpeed Insight score above a certain point, remember
that there are many other benchmarks of page speed and
performance. Run a test on your site using some of the other
performance analysis tools listed earlier in this article and see how
you rank.
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