5 steps to a faster website [WordCamp London 2019]

Why you should forget about the scores if you want to speed up your website? What is TTFB and why you should care about it? Why using CDN might not help you improve the site speed? Why Twitter with all that funny GIFs loads lightning fast and your visitors have to wait for ages while one single kitten gets loaded? How do you get to know your hosting is fast enough?

During this session we will learn:

how to measure website load times and interpret the results
what should you do after all possible caching is already on but your website is still awfully slow
how to define bottlenecks and fix them without making significant changes to the theme.
Let’s make websites load faster together!

@sabrina_zeidan is about to start her talk @WordCamp London pic.twitter.com/VEj7c0mvVa

— Rich Hill (@RichHill73) April 6, 2019

@sabrina_zeidan Thanks for a great start to #WCLDN with your talk all about a faster website. pic.twitter.com/WhBocywzFc

— Cosmik Carrot (@cosmikcarrot) April 7, 2019

https://twitter.com/RechendaSmith/status/1114458951310106624
https://twitter.com/jamesforward/status/1114461398237687808

So, she actually goes 4.3km/hr..
Whooopp..
Thanks @sabrina_zeidan for both speed in water and online.#WCLDN

— Hamza (GoTechUG) (@GoTechUG) April 6, 2019

Thank you @sabrina_zeidan for your insightful talk about how to speed up websites. #WCLDN

— Matt Ross #WCEU #WCEU2024 (@thisismattuk) April 6, 2019

https://twitter.com/remco_vanessen/status/1114456877973295104

Site speed: how good is good enough? You just need to be faster than the rest, says @sabrina_zeidan #WCLDN pic.twitter.com/vr1DumdnF0

— Tamsyn Hyatt (@tamsynhyatt) April 6, 2019

. @sabrina_zeidan training attendees on how to better understand how caching works with getting attendees to count how many days to her mum’s birthday and being a virtual cache. #WCLDN pic.twitter.com/fZk0ULu9P6

— WordCamp London (@WordCampLondon) April 6, 2019

Probably the best analogy for caching I've heard by @sabrina_zeidan this morning at @WordCampLondon #WCLDN

— John Ossoway (@ottomancer) April 6, 2019

Great talk on website speed from @sabrina_zeidan #WCLDN

— Alison Rothwell #WordPress #WCEU #WCUS (@alisonrothwell) April 6, 2019