Optimization

Whether you’re using WordPress as a CMS, a blog or somewhere between the two, as a portfolio site, making sure your site runs quickly is absolutely paramount in this day and age.

Chapter 1: The Performance Business Case Chapter 2: The Life of Page 2.0 Chapter 3: Fewer Page Components Chapter 4: Smaller Components Chapter 5: Optimizing Images Chapte

Hummingbird lets you see how visitors are interacting with your website in real time.

I’ve been playing around with Google Analytics’ Custom Variables feature and put together a neat integration that lets us measure the real performance of visitors to our website.

Gives you multiple options of reduced size images.

Why clean markup? Markup smells Additional optimizations Agressive optimizations When things go wrong Antipatterns Tools Future considerations

Why clean markup? Markup smells Additional optimizations Agressive optimizations When things go wrong Antipatterns Tools Future considerations

Free web site speed test to improve website performance. Enter a URL below to calculate page size, composition, and download time.

Google Analytics Setup Checklist Google Analytics IQ Lessons from Google’s Conversion University with videos A Video Tutorial to Google Analytics Setup Google’s Support Installation Guide

The Exceptional Performance team has identified a number of best practices for making web pages fast. The list includes 34 best practices divided into 7 categories.

Page Speed is an open-source Firefox/Firebug Add-on. Webmasters and web developers can use Page Speed to evaluate the performance of their web pages and to get suggestions on how to improve them.

Pagetest allows you to provide the URL of a webpage to be tested.

Once you have your website established and running properly it may be time to take a look at your server load and loading times.

We live in a world where people are increasingly expecting more and faster speeds. In fractions of a second, your website can lose valuable visitors and in turn, money.