November 9, 2021 — This talk explores the advantages and disadvantages of converting a WordPress website to a static site. You will also learn more about tools and services for creating static websites derived from a WordPress site.

April 27, 2021 — Im Mai 2021 wird Google die Art, wie sie Website bewerten deutlich verändern. Drei neue Ranking-Faktoren halten Einzug und bringen für Website-Betreiber*innen neue Herausforderungen und die Gefahr mit sich, im Google-Ranking zu fallen.

Wie diese Herausforderungen genau aussehen und was es mit Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) und First Input Delay (FID) auf sich hat, hat uns Phil Marx bei seinem Vortrag am 14. April näher gebracht.

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February 2, 2021 — Die neuen Bewertungskriterien von Google
(Cumulative Layout Shift, Largest Contentful Paint, First Input Delay)

Zielgruppe: SEO, Entwickler, Fortgeschrittene

Beschreibung:
Ab Mai 2021 wird Google bei der Bewertung von Webseiten drei Faktoren in erheblicher Weise berücksichtigen:
– Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)
– Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)
– First Input Delay (FID)

Entwickler und Autoren, die sich mit diesen Werten nicht beschäftigen, laufen Gefahr, dass ihre Seiten an Ranking verlieren.
In diesem Vortrag gibt es einen Einstieg in die Bedeutung dieser Begriffe, wie man seine eigene Seite prüfen kann und einige grundsätzliche Verbesserungsvorschläge für die eigene Seite.

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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.

April 23, 2019 — Tips and techniques that can dramatically increase your site performance:

• Why speed matters.
• How you can measure it – Tools to measure your page speed.
• Ways to improve it – Best practices for optimisation.
• I’ll also discuss Google – Mobile Page Speed Update 2018 and if you should AMP-lify your web site.

May 2, 2015 — This presentation looks at different combinations of web server technologies including Apache, NGINX, HHVM, PHP-FPM, and more, it runs load tests on each one of them (all running a WordPress site) in a head to head competition to find out which one is the Last Stack Standing.

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