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Geoff Myers, digital marketing consultant/strategist and president of SimDex LLC, will be presenting an introduction to WordPress performance optimization (that is, speeding up your site).
This presentation will cover a variety of performance optimization strategies, plugins, best practices, and tutorials for:
- Caching static resources
- Minifying code
- Shrinking images
- Determining slow plugins
- Reducing server load
- Saving bandwidth
- Decreasing page loading times
- Creating a better overall user experience
- Improving SEO (search engine optimization)
Some of the specific tools and resources we’ll talk about:
- W3 Total Cache and WP Super Cache (caching plugins)
- WP Smush and EWWW Image Optimizer (image optimization plugins)
- CloudFlare and other CDNs (content delivery networks)
- GTmetrix, Google PageSpeed, and Yahoo YSlow (performance benchmarking)
- And more!
