Licence
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Slides
Your friendly WordPress performance checklist
- Know your own website address
- Prepare for slow networks
- Pay for quality hosting
- Avoid external requests
- Commit to relevant images
- Automate image optimisation
- Rely on a lean theme
- Make a content strategy
- Minimise the use of JavaScript
- Reuse requests with caching
Sources
- Mobile connections and internet prices in Zimbabwe:
- How much is the internet in Zimbabwe? – Here’s a comparison of local broadband prices in 2017
- Google promoting fast websites:
- “Faster is better and less is more”
- Average page size in 2017:
- 2961 kb (~3 MB)
- Increasing page size:
- The growth of web pages
- Paul Bakaus on perceived performance and possible metrics:
- The Illusion Of Speed
- Benchmarking the Facebook widget:
- Page load time increased from 620 ms to 1.51 s
- Lucy Beer explaining caching in plain English:
- WordPress page caching explained in plain English
Browser caching explained in plain English - Addy Osmani on minimising the use of JavaScript:
- The Cost Of JavaScript