June 5, 2020 — We all want fast sites, but what is fast? What is performant? We may know it when we see; yet quantifying and communicating about web performance effectively is still a challenge.

In this talk, we discussed our ever-evolving set of standards for what comprises a fast site. With special attention to the problems that ads and analytics present for publishers, we also discussed how antiquated notions of web performance are a ripe environment for abuses by 3rd party code.

Finally, we reviewed techniques for improving performance monitoring as a tool for institutional change.

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May 30, 2020 — Speed matters. People are impatient. If your website or a client’s website doesn’t load quickly – within just a couple of seconds – many visitors will abandon it completely. A slow site means lost time & revenue. But figuring out how to speed up a slow site can be HARD. Everyone’s got a suggestion and an idea for how to fix your performance issues, but most are just guesses, and not based on real data. STOP GUESSING. If you have a performance issue, or just want a faster site, you need to KNOW exactly what is slowing things down, and how to fix it. This talk will show you how.

April 22, 2020 — A talk about why WordPress websites might be running slower than we’d like them to, how to pinpoint what is slowing the site down, and things we can all do to speed our sites up.

April 19, 2020 — Alexis Arnal y Pedro Urbina nos enseñan a acelerar la velocidad de nuestros sitios web aplicando buenas prácticas de optimización.

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April 18, 2020 — WordPress ist vor allem durch die einfache Installation und den modularen Aufbau zum beliebtesten CMS weltweit geworden. Aber: WordPress bietet in seinen Voreinstellungen kaum Möglichkeiten, seine langsamen Ladezeiten zu beschleunigen.
Mit den richtigen Plugins, passenden Servereinstellungen und Wissen um Dateiformate und Dateigrößen jedoch wird die Performance in wenigen Schritten um Wesentliches gesteigert.
Wichtig ist dabei, die richtigen Schlüsse aus den Messdaten von PageSpeed, GTmetrix oder dem Pingdom-Speedtest zu ziehen.

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December 21, 2019 — WordPress Performance e Optimization: 8 trucchi per velocizzare il tuo sito web e renderlo accessibile in meno di 1 secondo. La discussione prevederà l’argomentazione dei seguenti punti: – Il protocollo QUIC – Performance test – Caching systems – PHP version e Database MySQL – Immagini SVG – CDN e DNS – HTTP requests – Lazy Loading.

December 10, 2019 — Ricordando l’importanza della velocità per un sito web, saranno spiegati alcuni dei fattori che solitamente rallentano un sito web.
In seguito saranno dati dei “pratici consigli” per applicare le
modifiche necessarie per migliorare sensibilmente la velocità di un sito WordPress.

November 10, 2019 — One of the major reasons behind online driven frustration is because of a slow website. One would not want to visit such a website the second time. Right?
What if this is the case with your website? Won’t those low numbers on analytics dull your day? Are you not concerned about how and when did you website fail? If a website doesn’t load quickly, the user would probably leave it immediately. And, a dissatisfied user is worse than not having users at all!

This talk mainly deals with how one can speed up their WordPress website and make it faster for users, thus improving their conversions. This talk begins with educating about website hosting, latency and DNS. Then, shall be discussing about how you can optimize the performance of your WordPress website, having solutions for all sort of users, from beginner to advanced users, and for different hosting scenario. Further, discussion will be about different performance optimization strategies like cutting down your queries, tweaking the code base, caching mechanism, use of cloud services, scaling up and so on. All this together shall help a newbie or even someone who has their website slow and frustrating for users, faster and better optimized. Thus, saving their day.

September 15, 2019 — Speed matters. People are impatient. If your website or a client’s website doesn’t load quickly – within a just a couple of seconds – many visitors will abandon it completely. A slow site means lost time & revenue. But figuring out how to speed up a slow site can be HARD.

Everyone’s got a suggestion and an idea for how to fix your performance issues. Disable this plugin, try this, try that … usually just guesses, and not based on real data.

STOP GUESSING. If you have a performance issue, or just want to make your site faster, you need to KNOW exactly what is going on with your actual, live site in production.

We’ll start by with an overview of WordPress page performance, and then focus on server response times, and what affects them. We’ll take a look at tools that will tell you exactly what plugins are slowing down your site.

August 11, 2019 — Speed matters. People are impatient. If your website or a client’s website doesn’t load quickly – within a just a couple of seconds – many visitors will abandon it completely. A slow site means lost time & revenue. But figuring out how to speed up a slow site can be HARD. Everyone’s got a suggestion and an idea for how to fix your performance issues, but most are just guesses, and not based on real data. STOP GUESSING. If you have a performance issue, or just want a faster site, you need to KNOW exactly what is slowing things down, and how to fix it. This talk will show you how.

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