Overview
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Learn how to optimize a typical WordPress site for speed.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Make your WordPress website lightning fast
- What you should know
- Why speed is important for websites
- How to check and monitor your speed
- How websites slow down
- Static vs. dynamic sites
- Why hosting matters
- PHP versions
- Server location
- Optimize images
- Install an image optimizing plug-in
- Use a content delivery network (CDN)
- Offload audio and video files
- Use lazy loading
- Your theme matters
- Plugins: Quality over quantity
- Concatenate and minify scripts and styles
- WordPress database structure
- Custom database tables
- Limit post revisions
- What is caching?
- Configuring caching plugins
- Cache busting
- Next steps
