{"id":1298,"date":"2016-02-09T20:44:39","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T04:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.sandiego.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_session&#038;p=1298"},"modified":"2016-02-17T15:14:58","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T23:14:58","slug":"dude-speed-up-that-website","status":"publish","type":"wcb_session","link":"https:\/\/sandiego.wordcamp.org\/2016\/session\/dude-speed-up-that-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Dude, Speed Up That Website!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having a fast WordPress site is probably more important than you think. The speed of your website affects nearly everything related to your online goals in some way &#8211; bounce rate, search ranking, conversion, page views, reader satisfaction, total revenue&#8230; I could go on but you get the point.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately WordPress performance optimization has become clouded in a bunch of technical speak that makes it difficult for many of us to know where to start.<br \/>\nI too was once lost and intimidated when it came to this stuff, but I recently made the conscious decision to roll up my sleeves and learn what it takes to serve up websites with blazing speed.<\/p>\n<p>The result: faster websites, happy clients, and even happier end users. Everybody wins!<\/p>\n<p>And the very best part: It\u2019s really not that hard to do.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been creating websites for over 17 years, but I\u2019m still no development wizard like the type you\u2019ll find walking these halls at WordCamp San Diego.<br \/>\nWhen it comes down to it, I\u2019m just a dude with an interest in fast-loading WordPress sites who has spent a lot of time learning things the hard way. Through my efforts I\u2019ve honed an easy and bulletproof technique that I want to share.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In this talk we\u2019re going to cover:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why performance is a major concern<\/li>\n<li>How to measure page speed \/ performance<\/li>\n<li>Why you need a good web host<\/li>\n<li>Server-side caching, browser caching, and recommended caching plugins\/techniques<\/li>\n<li>Minification &amp; Concatenation &#8211; What it is and how to do it<\/li>\n<li>Image optimization<\/li>\n<li>Content Delivery Networks &#8211; What they are and when you should use one<\/li>\n<li>How to bundle performance optimization as a service to earn more money on your next web project.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\ufffc\ufffc\ufffc\ufffc\ufffc\ufffc\ufffc\ufffc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having a fast WordPress site is probably more important than you think. The speed of your website affects nearly everything related to your online goals in some way &#8211; bounce rate, search ranking, conversion, page views, reader satisfaction, total revenue&#8230; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sandiego.wordcamp.org\/2016\/session\/dude-speed-up-that-website\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"assistive-text\">Dude, Speed Up That Website!<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7846234,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_session_time":1461531600,"_wcpt_session_duration":3000,"_wcpt_session_type":"session","_wcpt_session_slides":"","_wcpt_session_video":"","_wcpt_speaker_id":[1292],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[5418],"session_category":[],"class_list":["post-1298","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","hentry","wcb_track-admin"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xlrA-kW","session_date_time":{"date":"April 24, 2016","time":"2:00 pm"},"session_speakers":[{"id":"1292","slug":"evan-scheingross","name":"Evan Scheingross","link":"https:\/\/sandiego.wordcamp.org\/2016\/speaker\/evan-scheingross\/"}],"session_cats_rendered":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandiego.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/1298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandiego.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandiego.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sandiego.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/1298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2075,"href":"https:\/\/sandiego.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/1298\/revisions\/2075"}],"speakers":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandiego.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1292"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandiego.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/evster"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandiego.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandiego.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=1298"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandiego.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=1298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}