wordpress optimization - wordcampla 09-10-11

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WPO(WordPress Optimization)

By: Justin DorfmanNetDNA / MaxCDN

About Me

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Occupation: Support Engineer (A cooler title than Customer Service Representative)

Age: 26

Born and Raised: L.A.

Hobbies: Basketball, Blogging,Reading, Designing, Walking

Color: GREEN

Zoe “Chillin” 2011

What the HELL is WPO?

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WPO = WEB PAGE OPTIMIZATIONA.K.A.

WORDPRESS OPTIMIZATION

WHY SHOULD YOU CARE?

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400 ms slower = 5-9% drop in full-page traffic (Users leaving before the page finishes loading)

500 ms slower = 20% drop in traffic -

100 ms slower = 1% drop in sales -


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100 ms slower = 1% drop in sales -


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You can spend THOU$ANDS on SEO, but if your site loads slow,

you will loose your audience, time and money!


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Zuck Loves Speed! 750 Million People Seem to Appreciate it...

At least 10x improvement in overall site performance

W3-Total Cache: Get it!

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Improved conversion rates

"Instant" subsequent page views: browser caching

Up to 80% bandwidth savings via minify

Trusted by:

W3-Total Cache: Minify

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W3-Total Cache: CDN

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http://ledfrog.com/blog/2010/09/visual-design-cdn/



W3-Total Cache: CDN

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W3-Total Cache: Cache-Control Headers

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http://linuxgazette.net/132/pfeiffer.html



W3-Total Cache: Cache-Control Headers

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Bottom Line...

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WPO Tools I use on the Reg

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• WebPageTest.org• FireBug• CatchPoint.com• YSlow• Google Page Speed• Pingdom Tools

Thanks for Listening!

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