Making sure your site runs quickly is absolutely critical. Google penalises slow sites in its search results and visitors won’t hang around to wait for your site to load so a slow site means you’re losing customers.
Watch this on demand webinar to learn more about how to optimise the speed and performance of your WordPress site.
- Why is site speed such a critical issue for website owners?
- How do you know if speed is a problem with your site?
- What makes sites run slowly?
- Understanding how WordPress pages are constructed
- What the browser needs to do in order to display your pages
- The importance of the ‘time to first byte’ metric
- How can different elements of your page be optimised for speed?
- Optimising image files – lazy loading, sizing your images and compressing them
- Optimising your HTML and CSS files
- Making sure your Javascript isn’t slowing down your site
- The role that your hosting plays in determining the speed of your site
- Overview of different hosting options
- Speed issues that are specific to WordPress sites
- Introduction to caching
- What is caching and why should you use it on your site?
- Free plugins that enable you to quickly and easily add caching to your site
- Using a Content Delivery Network (CDN)
- Questions
Who should watch this webinar?
This webinar is designed for anyone who has a WordPress site and wants to learn more about how to improve its performance and make it run as quickly as possible.
