October 31, 2019 — Omkar Bhagat, Happiness will be introducing browser and speed test tools. He’ll also discuss important points to target in order bring your site speed under 5 seconds, incluing Jetpack plugin’s image CDN module.

March 25, 2019

March 18, 2019 — Save time (both coding and loading) by integrating gulpjs into your workflow for automating tasks and delivering highly optimized files.

June 25, 2018 — Nobody likes a slow site. Every year the weight of an average site keeps increasing, mainly because of image sizes. Optimizing images is the biggest win when it comes to your website speed.
In this presentation we will focus on different image formats and steps to follow before uploading them to a website. We’ll discuss PNG, JPG, GIF, SVG and when to use each one.
We’ll set up a process to prepare images for the web, and go over tools to measure loading time. We’ll also look at some examples of before and after image optimization.

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June 19, 2017 — Siddharth Ashok is currently working with Indian-Swedish Web agency WebbDesinger aka Next Big Thing, as Front-End and WordPress developer. He discussed how to optimize your WordPress site, that would include some tips for basic server-side optimisation, best practices to follow that would make a site fast, optimizing images and files, tools to measure and optimize site’s speed, and avoiding bad practices that make a site slow, etc.

June 16, 2017 — This talk will discuss methods for optimizing your WordPress theme and plugins to improve your site’s score on Google PageSpeed and other testing tools.

We’ll go over various types of caching, look into debugging jQuery issues and render blocking as well as minification and CDNs.

Takeaways:

Types of caching
Tools for minifying
Defer render blocking js

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