WordPress Page Speed

Now, just a heads up on what we're going to be doing in this class. The only way I'm able to get a perfect score on this test is to disable some features … [Read more...] about How to Fix Render Blocking Error

This class is going to cover minification and concatenation. Concatenation is basically combining all the javascript files into one javascript file and … [Read more...] about How to Minify and Concatenate

In this class, we're going to have a quick look at what is called g zip compression. Now you're probably familiar with how to compress or zip files in … [Read more...] about How to Do GZip Compression

In this class, we're going to add a plugin to fix the server scaled images item that we found out about during that gt metrics test we ran in a previous … [Read more...] about How to Serve Scaled Images

In the previous class, we added a caching plugin to our wordpress site. The main goal of these caching plugins is to take that snapshot of the different … [Read more...] about How to Leverage Browser Cache

This class is going to cover the installation activation and setup of a popular free caching plugin, and while there are many caching plugins to choose from … [Read more...] about Web Caching Plugin Install and Setup

This and the next couple of classes we'll cover caching. Caching allows your webpages to load faster and also reduces the number of requests the browser … [Read more...] about Introduction to Web Caching

In this class to class to have image optimization, we're going to have a look at the web based and plugin versions of Kraken.io and use the plugin version to … [Read more...] about Image Optimization Tips – Part 2

Now that we've covered the site speed testing, tools will next begin the optimizing of the items. Those testing tools total us to fix. But before we get … [Read more...] about Image Optimization Tips – Part 1

This class is going to check out the speed testing tool called web page test and you can get here by going into webpage test.org. Now in my opinion, … [Read more...] about How to Use WebPagetest

In this class we're going to look at another testing tool. It has available tools for more than just testing our site speed. This one is called website … [Read more...] about How to Use Website Pulse

This class is going to demonstrate the free page speed testing tool from google called page speed insights and you can get here by going to … [Read more...] about Page Speed Insights