Using Lighthouse - Chrome inspection tool

Doors Open: 6:30pm
Presentation: 7:00pm
Paul McCann will give a presentation on using Chrome's built-in, free tool for measuring your sites’ speed, performance, accessibility and SEO. We'll look at how to access and use Lighthouse to diagnose any site, what the scores and results mean, and how you can solve some of the common 'easy-to-fix' issues and develop a strategy for conquering the more complex ones to get your site 'into the green'.
The presentation will include:

• How to access and run Lighthouse audits on any site
• A rundown of the Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices and SEO measurements
• What the Performance metrics and acronyms such as FCP, LCP, CLS mean and how they actually affect your visitors
• Easy ways to speed up your site
• Strategies for super speedy pages
• Avoiding render-blocking resources
• Speeding up image loading with next-gen formats, with considerations for fallbacks
• Measuring CSS and JavaScript coverage to find unused code.
• Understanding common Accessibility & SEO issues and how to fix them
• Some tools, plugins and strategies to improve your WordPress sites’
• Lighthouse scores
• Other Chrome Dev Tools for optimizing your site

Paul McCann builds and repairs websites with a focus on CSS and WordPress, but with a constant eye on a site's performance, accessibility and SEO.
As an instructor for Digital Bootcamp and Ascend Training, Paul has taught a wide range of courses, from basic Web Development, to WordPress Theme Development.