Website Performance: Why Slow Websites Suck, and How to Avoid Having One

Shawn Smith, Creative Director at VerticalSwitch is presenting "Website Performance: Why slow websites suck, and how to avoid having one".

Why speed matters.

---Organic Search (Google PageSpeed)

---UI/UX Considerations

---Mobile Devices

---Conversions

How to reduce page load time.

---On-Page Methods

------The Critical Rendering Path

------Designing Pages for Performance

------Optimizing Existing Sites

------WordPress/CMS­ Considerations

---Server/Networkin­g Methods

------Server Hardware - SSD Storage and RAID Cache

------HTTP Server Configs - Apache vs. NGINX

------Reducing Server Load - Caching, CDN's and DNS

Resources

---Links to various articles and tools referenced in the presentation

SEARCHCON 2015

We are helping to promote SearchCon 2015 Digital Marketing & SEO Conference coming up April 9 & 10 in Breckenridge. The intimate conference will feature some of the best folks in digital marketing in Denver. You can read more about the conference at http://searchcon.events/.

It will be a great time to hear more about what's going on with digital marketing and to network with some people who spend their days working in digital marketing. You'll come up away with some great connections and learn how to be more effective in your online marketing work.

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You can learn more about SearchCon at this week's Meet Up. Otherwise, we'd love to see you in Breck on April 9 and 10.