Building faster websites: web performance with WordPressJohannes Siipola
Nobody likes a slow website. Faster sites lead to happier users, and happier users lead to more conversions and revenue. That’s why you should take performance into account in your WordPress project. Learn what practical techniques and WordPress plugins to use in order to optimize your site for speed.
My slides from WordCamp Dhaka 2019 on WordPress Scaling. In this session I explained performance optimisation using HTTP/2, Caching and compressing resources.
I also explained how to Dockerize WordPress to make it easier to scale.
Building faster websites: web performance with WordPressJohannes Siipola
Nobody likes a slow website. Faster sites lead to happier users, and happier users lead to more conversions and revenue. That’s why you should take performance into account in your WordPress project. Learn what practical techniques and WordPress plugins to use in order to optimize your site for speed.
My slides from WordCamp Dhaka 2019 on WordPress Scaling. In this session I explained performance optimisation using HTTP/2, Caching and compressing resources.
I also explained how to Dockerize WordPress to make it easier to scale.
Stress Test Drupal on Amazon EC2 vs. RackSpace cloudAndy Kucharski
RackSpace vs Amazon EC2 stress evaluation of responding to user registration on a Drupal 6 ubercart ecommerce site test using LoadStorm.
We have stood up an eCommerce site built with Drupal6 and ubercart and stood it up on two most popular cloud providers. We then built a stress test using LoadStorm and tried to push the sites and servers to the limit. Here are the results of our experiment.
Presentation from June 2013, Surrey, BC, Drupal Group meetup.
- Some tips how to improve Drupal 7 performance.
- Get Drupal 7 working faster
- Optimize code in order to get proper responses
- Use cache (memcache, APC cache, entity cache, varnish)
- Scale Drupal horizontally in order to balance load
Squeeze Maximum Performance From Your Joomla WebsiteSiteGround.com
Basic and advanced tips and tricks to optimize your Joomla website in order to achieve maximum performance - a presentation by Tenko Nikolov for JoomlaDay Chicago 2012.
Make Drupal Run Fast - increase page load speedAndy Kucharski
What does it mean when someone says “My Site is slow now”? What is page speed? How do you measure it? How can you make it faster? We’ll try to answer these questions, provide you with a set of tools to use and explain how this relates to your server load.
We will cover:
- What is page load speed? – Tools used to measure performance of your pages and site – Six Key Improvements to make Drupal “run fast”
++ Performance Module settings and how they work
++ Caching – biggest gainer and how to implement Boost
++ Other quick hits: off loading search, tweaking settings & why running crons is important
++ Ask your host about APC and how to make sure its set up correctly
++ Dare we look at the database? Easy changes that will help a lot!
- Monitoring Best practices – what to set up to make sure you know what is going on with your server – What if you get slashdoted? Recommendation on how to quickly take cover from a rhino.
Asset Redux - Front end performance on Rails (Phil Nash)Future Insights
Slides from Phil Nash's presentation at the London Web Meet-up - http://londonweb.org
Speaker Phil Nash is a developer evangelist for Twilio and a Ruby and JavaScript developer. He loves test coverage, great beer, hackathons, and gems with puns in their names. Get all four together for maximum points. He once made a pull request to Rails... it's still open ;)
Overview of session:
Web application speed is paramount. Our users want our application and they want it now! We can optimise application code, database queries and so on, but that's all wasted if the page takes ages to appear. A fast back end and a slow front end can end up leaving a bad taste in the mouth.
Using Rails, we'll look at the best ways to speed up the delivery of your application. Going beyond just minifying our assets, we'll look at techniques to get our site in the user's browser quicker, improving both real and perceived speed. We'll also discover the best tools to use to check out speed and get a better idea of the user's opinion of the site.Once finished, our sites will load in a flash!
Studies have identified speed as the single most critical factor for e-commerce conversion. There are lots of changes you could make to your website, but none of them are as risk-free as increasing speed. Some people like yellow, some like blue, but nobody likes slow. This talk will explain how to measure speed, and how to make your site much faster with minimal effort.
This presentation touch the basics of MongoMK, Jackrabbit Oak MongoDB persistency layer implementation and how to deploy, operate, manage and size your MongoDB cluster on AEM environments
Optimizing WordPress for Performance - WordCamp HoustonChris Olbekson
Speeding up websites is important- Not just to site owners but to all Internet users. In this session, we’ll look at some techniques you can use to speed up your WordPress site including optimizing theme files and database queries, caching and some tips on improving server performance. Note: This talk will be geared towards users who have a basic understanding of theme template files and experience with web development tools, such as Firebug.
Stress Test Drupal on Amazon EC2 vs. RackSpace cloudAndy Kucharski
RackSpace vs Amazon EC2 stress evaluation of responding to user registration on a Drupal 6 ubercart ecommerce site test using LoadStorm.
We have stood up an eCommerce site built with Drupal6 and ubercart and stood it up on two most popular cloud providers. We then built a stress test using LoadStorm and tried to push the sites and servers to the limit. Here are the results of our experiment.
Presentation from June 2013, Surrey, BC, Drupal Group meetup.
- Some tips how to improve Drupal 7 performance.
- Get Drupal 7 working faster
- Optimize code in order to get proper responses
- Use cache (memcache, APC cache, entity cache, varnish)
- Scale Drupal horizontally in order to balance load
Squeeze Maximum Performance From Your Joomla WebsiteSiteGround.com
Basic and advanced tips and tricks to optimize your Joomla website in order to achieve maximum performance - a presentation by Tenko Nikolov for JoomlaDay Chicago 2012.
Make Drupal Run Fast - increase page load speedAndy Kucharski
What does it mean when someone says “My Site is slow now”? What is page speed? How do you measure it? How can you make it faster? We’ll try to answer these questions, provide you with a set of tools to use and explain how this relates to your server load.
We will cover:
- What is page load speed? – Tools used to measure performance of your pages and site – Six Key Improvements to make Drupal “run fast”
++ Performance Module settings and how they work
++ Caching – biggest gainer and how to implement Boost
++ Other quick hits: off loading search, tweaking settings & why running crons is important
++ Ask your host about APC and how to make sure its set up correctly
++ Dare we look at the database? Easy changes that will help a lot!
- Monitoring Best practices – what to set up to make sure you know what is going on with your server – What if you get slashdoted? Recommendation on how to quickly take cover from a rhino.
Asset Redux - Front end performance on Rails (Phil Nash)Future Insights
Slides from Phil Nash's presentation at the London Web Meet-up - http://londonweb.org
Speaker Phil Nash is a developer evangelist for Twilio and a Ruby and JavaScript developer. He loves test coverage, great beer, hackathons, and gems with puns in their names. Get all four together for maximum points. He once made a pull request to Rails... it's still open ;)
Overview of session:
Web application speed is paramount. Our users want our application and they want it now! We can optimise application code, database queries and so on, but that's all wasted if the page takes ages to appear. A fast back end and a slow front end can end up leaving a bad taste in the mouth.
Using Rails, we'll look at the best ways to speed up the delivery of your application. Going beyond just minifying our assets, we'll look at techniques to get our site in the user's browser quicker, improving both real and perceived speed. We'll also discover the best tools to use to check out speed and get a better idea of the user's opinion of the site.Once finished, our sites will load in a flash!
Studies have identified speed as the single most critical factor for e-commerce conversion. There are lots of changes you could make to your website, but none of them are as risk-free as increasing speed. Some people like yellow, some like blue, but nobody likes slow. This talk will explain how to measure speed, and how to make your site much faster with minimal effort.
This presentation touch the basics of MongoMK, Jackrabbit Oak MongoDB persistency layer implementation and how to deploy, operate, manage and size your MongoDB cluster on AEM environments
Optimizing WordPress for Performance - WordCamp HoustonChris Olbekson
Speeding up websites is important- Not just to site owners but to all Internet users. In this session, we’ll look at some techniques you can use to speed up your WordPress site including optimizing theme files and database queries, caching and some tips on improving server performance. Note: This talk will be geared towards users who have a basic understanding of theme template files and experience with web development tools, such as Firebug.
In this presentation, Neera Prajapati of Valuebound has discussed on performance optimization in Drupal 8. She has also talked about a range of topics like why website loading time matters? Importance of web performance and how to boost it? and others.
Did your website ever score 100/100 on Google PageSpeed Insight? What can you do to improve your WordPress site performance. What are three best ways to make your wordpress super fast. Do’s and Dont’s of Performance optimization and lastly invitation to collaborate on bringing together fastest WordPress stack with faster in-memory datastores.
WordPress Speed & Performance from Pagely's CTOLizzie Kardon
We've got 10 years experience in managed WordPress hosting and here our CTO brings you his engineering knowledge on optimizing WordPress and when to NOT compromise.
A presentation on the different aspects to be addressed from the perspective of performance when you build a Drupal web application. The presentation also lists out some of the common performance optimization issues you can easily avoid while building your Drupal application
Speeding up your WordPress Site - WordCamp Toronto 2015Alan Lok
This is a revised talk from the May 2015 presentation I gave to WordCamp Hamilton. At the end of this presentation you should have some ideas on how to speed up your WordPress site from within (plugins, code / theme optimizations) to environmental changes.
The presentation of the Drupal frontend optimizations from Drupal Camp LA 2011. The slides go over optimizations you do in the backend to serve files in the frontend faster and optimizations in the front end to css and javascript to make that aspect run faster.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
2. Who is Josh?
Josh Highland - Computer Scientist
Redlands, California (909!)
Founder of New Leaf Labs
Web & iPhone apps
WordPress since 2004 (1.2.1)
Social Media Addict (follow @JoshHighland)
3. What we will cover?
Defining performance
Hosting choices
Server configurations
WordPress plugins
WordPress themes
Your content
Tools
4. What is Performance?
The manner in which something reacts or fulfills its intended purpose
dictionary.com
How fast your WordPress
site can deliver content
5. Some reasons for a slow
Web host mismatch
Server configurations
Misbehaving plugins - heavy queries, 3rd party interactions
Not all WordPress themes are equal
The content you server up
6. Shared Web Hosting
Most popular
Your site is on a server along with many others
The hosting company manage the web server for you
Little control over server settings and so on
Good for small site with little traffic
Very affordable
7. Virtual / Dedicated Servers
Dedicated hardware resources
Full control of server settings
Storage space
Often located in a hosting facility
Can get expensive
8. Web Servers
Apache
Very popular
Lots of tuning resources available
Nginx
Faster than Apache
Harder to use
Used by WordPress, Hulu and Others
Only load the modules that you need! Keep it lean and mean.
9. Caching?
Remember the results of an action, use them again if possible
Greatly speeds up performance
Reduces load on the server
Transparent to the end user
Things you should be caching:
Data base queries
PHP code
Page requests
Assets (images, javasscript, css)
10. MySQL Query Caching
Pros
Easy to enable (MySQL config file settings)
Instant performance gains
Reduces server load
Effects all apps on the server
Cons
Can be tough to tune properly
Consumes server RAM
11. PHP OPCode Caching
OpCode?
Readable PHP Code -> Compiler -> Opcode -> Executed
Popular Solutions
Eaccelarator
APC
Pros
Huge performance gains
Reduces server load
Cons
Can be hard to tune
RAM Usage
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13. WordPress Cache Plugins
WP Super Cache
Very popular (2.2 million downloads!)
Creates and serves static pages
CDN Support
W3 Total Cache
Page caching
CSS / JS minifying (smaller sizes)
HTTP Compression
CDN Support
14. WordPress Themes
Not all themes are created equal!
Things to look for
Number of CSS / JS / Images being loaded
Are the CSS / JS files minified?
Are the images optimized?
Is the code optimized?
Sometimes you pay for what you get
Do your home work
15. Your Content - Images
Images
How many are you loading?
Are the images optimized?
Use the Photoshop “save for web” option
Use the right file type
Upload the file in the appropriate size
Don’t resize the image in WP with the size %
CDN - Content Delivery Network
Image heavy sites should use a CDN
Amazon S3, RackSpace Cloud, Akamai, etc.
17. Your Content - Widgets
3rd party content widgets
How many are you loading?
Do you really need that widget?
Your speed now depends on their speed
Is their content optimized?
Often not cached
Often adds javascript / flash dependencies
Think lean and mean!
18. Your Content - Plugins
Because you can, doesn’t mean you should
Often the performance choking point on many sites
Only load what you need
Do you really need that plugin?
Increased database calls
Increased 3rd party dependencies
Case Study
Load time was 11 seconds
Disabled the “YARPP” (Yet another related posts plugin)
Load time was 4 seconds - huge improvement!
19. Other Tweaks
Separate your web server and database server
Load Balancing
Multiple Servers - when one is busy, the next takes over
Apache .htaccess tweaks
improved re-write rules
Load jQuery from Google
wp-config tweaks
20. Measuring Performance
From The Browser
FireFox Browser
lori (life-of-request info) plugin
FireBug plugin
“Net” tab
YSlow
Google Speed
Advanced tools for server performance testing are available
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29. Review
Hosting matters
Optimize your server
Hire a good system admin if you have to
Cache everything possible
Use a quality theme
Only use what you need
Be mindful of 3rd party connections
Firefox + Firebug are awesome
Everything in moderation