125 WP Tonic 11 Key Steps To Make Your WordPress Site Load Faster

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In this episode, we talk about 11 things you can do to make your WordPress website faster. A lot of this is based on a 3500+ word article that Jonathan put together for the WP-Tonic, but we further extrapolate the ideas and techniques talked about there. • https://www.wp-tonic.com/blog/11-the-... • Show Table of Contents: • 0:00 Intros • 2:06 Reviewing the 11 steps to making your WordPress site faster • 2:59 Page speed testing tools • 3:23 Google Page Speed Insights • 3:48 Time to first byte is an SEO factor • 4:05 Why large sites spend so much time on page speed • 4:44 The waterfall view of browser resources • 5:28 Chrome Developer Tools to see the waterfall view • 5:50 How to find the time to first byte for your website • 6:26 DNS and page speed performance • 8:28 How hosting affects page speed • 9:03 You will never have a fast website with shared hosting • 10:29 Why managed WordPress hosting is superior to general hosting • 11:52 The near-future: PHP7 and HTTP/2 • 12:23 What is better? nginx or Apache? • 13:00 The biggest performance difference between general hosts and managed hosting • 15:40 External calls and HTTP requests can affect page speed • 17:20 How caching can reduce HTTP requests and improve page speed • 117:52 Why you need to talk to a consultant before buying a base theme • 18:35 The dirty secret about how 85% of web shops pick WordPress themes • 20:40 Visual builders based on shortcodes are terrible for performance • 21:38 Page speed affects your marketing efforts • 23:25 You get what you pay for • 24:28 The quality and number of plugins can affect page speed • 28:20 How caching helps your page speed • 31:04 Web fonts: how much does this affect page speed? • 31:55 A short history of web fonts • 33:21 The down side of using web fonts • 36:07 Image optimization, and how easy it is to add tons of page weight without knowing it • 37:21 A short history of web images • 37:59 A huge problem with modern web design and website performance • 40:35 Image compression tools like Kraken.io • 41:50 CDNs: What are they, and how do they help page speed? • 42:30 How CDNs work • 45:40 General tips for learning more about improving page speed • 47:45 Outros

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