Coz speed matters (WordPress Optimization)

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COZ SPEED MATTERSSakar Upadhyaya Khatiwada ( @sakaruk )

Why?

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Marissa Mayer ( then VP of google ), shared results on

web 2.0 conference 2009

that

delay of 0.5 secdropped the traffic by

20%

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In 2006, Amazon

reported that a

100-millisecond increase

in page speed

resulted to a

1% increase in its revenue.

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Akamai study 2009 shows47% of visitors expect a page to

load in under 2 seconds,And

57% of visitors will abandon a page that takes more than

3 seconds to load.

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Google announced in a blog post that

its algorithm takes page speed

into account when rankingwebsites.

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Why speed up?

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Better user experience

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Search engine ranking

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Higher Conversion Rate

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For visitors retention

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Why its slows?

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Web Hosting

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Size of Graphics

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Number of HTTP requests

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Server Loads

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WordPress Configurations

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Software Performance

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How to test?

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Pingdom

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Google Developers : PageSpeed Insights

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Yahoo! Yslow

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GTMetrix

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How to speed up?

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Preventive

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Reduce files

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Secondary files in end

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Object and Query Caching

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Sometimes hardcode is good

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Follow the standards

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Curative

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To Plugins

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Less Plugins

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Reliable Plugins

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Monitor pluginsP3 Profiler

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To Theme

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Reliable sources

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Reduce ImagesWP Smush.it, EWWW Image Optimizer,

CW Image Optimizer

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Reduce FilesWP Minify, Better WordPress Minify,

W3 Total Cache

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To Whole Site

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Right hosting

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Caching & CompressionW3 Total Cache, WP Super Cache

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Use CDN MaxCDN, CloudFlare, jsDelivr

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Reduce Post Revisions, Drafts, Spams

WP Optimize, WP-DBManager

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Empty Your Trashdefine ('EMPTY_TRASH_DAYS', 0);

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Stay Updated

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References• http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Optimization• http://www.akamai.com/html/about/press/releases/2009/press_091409.html• http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com.au/2010/04/using-site-speed-in-web-

search-ranking.html• http://www.montparnas.com/articles/more-evidence-that-speed-is-key-to-user-

experience/• http://www.copyblogger.com/website-speed-matters/• http://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/tips-tricks/optimize-your-wordpress-website• http://www.sitepoint.com/speed-wordpress/• http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-move-javascripts-to-the-bottom-or-

footer-in-wordpress/• http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/10-best-image-optimization-plugins-to-speed-up-

your-wordpress-site/• http://www.siteground.com/tutorials/wordpress/optimize_wordpress.htm• http://www.wpexplorer.com/free-cdn-services-for-wordpress/• http://www.wpexplorer.com/wordpress-caching/• http://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/tips-tricks/eight-useful-code-snippets-for-

wordpress• http://www.tailored4wp.com/get-a-better-performance-with-wordpress-transients-api-

501/• http://codex.wordpress.org/Options_API

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THANK YOU!Any Queries ??

(@sakaruk)