Speeding Up Your Site: An Introduction to WordPress Performance Optimization

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Geoff Myers (https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffmyers), digital marketing consultant/strategist and president of SimDex LLC (https://simdex.org), will be presenting an introduction to WordPress performance optimization (that is, speeding up your site).

This presentation will cover a variety of performance optimization strategies, plugins, best practices, and tutorials for:

• Caching static resources

• Minifying code

• Shrinking images

• Determining slow plugins

• Reducing server load

• Saving bandwidth

• Decreasing page loading times

• Creating a better overall user experience

• Improving SEO (search engine optimization)

Some of the specific tools and resources we'll talk about:

• W3 Total Cache and WP Super Cache (caching plugins)

• WP Smush and EWWW Image Optimizer (image optimization plugins)

• CloudFlare and other CDNs (content delivery networks)

• GTmetrix, Google PageSpeed, and Yahoo YSlow (performance benchmarking)

• And more!