Battling Google PageSpeed Insights

1. The document discusses speed and security as the active and passive components of a WordPress site. It provides tips to optimize speed through good hosting, CDNs, minification, and caching. 2. For security, it recommends prevention through regular backups, security plugins, and hardening measures. Common vulnerabilities include outdated plugins/themes and lack of security updates or measures. 3. Testing tools like GTmetrix and PageSpeed Insights can evaluate page speed, but their recommendations shouldn't always be followed. Ignoring site speed can lead to abandonment issues.

My talk at #brightonSEO 2014 on how to make websites FAST, covering request optimizations, caching, JS & CSS tweaks and a lot more!

Front-end performance optimizing involves optimizing a website's HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and image files to achieve the fastest possible loading speed. This includes minimizing HTTP requests by combining files, compressing files, optimizing code by removing unused code and errors, leveraging browser caching, and parallelizing downloads across domains. The document outlines nine techniques for front-end optimization, such as optimizing file sizes, reducing download size through compression and caching, and minimizing HTTP requests through file combining and CSS sprites.

Optimizing WordPress for speed and conversions can have an immediate impact on your bottom line. Learn how to turn WordPress into a revenue driving machine. Experience level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced Target audience: Affiliates/Publishers, Merchants/Advertisers Niche/vertical: WordPress Nicholas Reese, Resident Rockstar, Microbrand Media (Twitter @nickreese) (Moderator) Willie Jackson, Senior Marketer and Engineer, W3 EDGE (Twitter @williejackson) David Vogelpohl, CEO, Marketing Clique (Twitter @davidvmc)

The document summarizes a student's web development project where they built a dynamic website using HTML, CSS, jQuery, PHP, and SQL. It outlines the technologies used including the laptop specifications, development tools, hosting, and databases. It also details the estimated time spent on various aspects of the project, challenges encountered, technologies learned, and future goals to implement original proposed ideas for the site.

The document discusses the evolution of web browsers and their impact on the advancement of the World Wide Web. It outlines the development of early browsers, the "Browser Wars" between Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator that drove innovation, a period of stagnation for Internet Explorer 6, and a second "Browser War" between Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome and other browsers. It also provides details on building a dynamic website using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, PHP and SQL.

This document discusses various front-end performance tips for ASP.NET web applications, including minimizing HTTP requests, using a content delivery network, adding expiration headers, compressing content, optimizing stylesheet and script placement, avoiding redirects, caching AJAX requests, and minifying JavaScript. It provides details on tools like FireBug and YSlow for testing front-end performance, and how to implement many of the recommendations in ASP.NET.

This document is a roadmap for web development created by Google DSC at King Abdulaziz University. It outlines sections for front-end development, back-end development, and design. Each section lists languages and tools to learn along with estimated timeframes and links to resources. The roadmap recommends spending 20% of time on crash courses, 30% applying knowledge, and 50% building projects. It aims to guide learners through a structured plan to become full-stack web developers.

Yahoo has developed the de facto standard for building fast front-ends for websites. The bad news: you have to follow 34 rules to get there. The good news: I'll take a subset of those rules, explain them, and show how you can implement those rules in an automated fashion to minimize impact on developers and designers for your high-traffic website.

This document discusses the importance of web page speed and provides tips to optimize performance. It emphasizes that speed is important for user experience and engagement. Slow pages can lead to high bounce rates and negatively impact SEO. It then provides the "golden rules" of optimization, which include reducing HTTP requests, minimizing file sizes, caching assets, and using techniques like lazy loading. Specific tools are recommended for measuring performance, including PageSpeed, Speed Tracer, and Dynatrace Ajax. Browser limitations and upcoming technologies that may improve speed are also briefly covered. The goal is to make the web faster by optimizing code, images, assets and more.

The document discusses HTML5 Boilerplate, which is a popular front-end template that helps developers build fast, robust, and adaptable web apps or sites. It includes tools like Modernizr, which detects HTML5 and CSS3 browser support, and HTML5 Shiv, which allows styling of HTML5 elements in older IE browsers. Using HTML5 Boilerplate follows best practices for performance, like minifying code and setting the viewport.

With the growth of mobile devices, performance is now more important than ever. But the web is actually getting slower! Fight back by learning how to monitor performance, the critical rendering path and finding where to optimize.