Performance Matters-Optimizing Page Load
Performance matters when you have spent time and money to build a website and rely on it to make revenue or retain visitors. Visitors will leave a site if it does not load fast or the performance is lacking in both speed and functionality. Optimizing your website is a valuable necessity that will pay off in both growth in traffic and revenue.
Course Description
In this course, you’ll learn how to improve web page performance. We’ll cover what that means, why it’s so important to consider, and how you can optimize your web pages so they perform well.
What You’ll Learn
- What website performance is and how you can measure it.
- Why the difference between overall and perceived performance is important?
- How to use Google’s DevTools and PageSpeed insights.
- How to optimize the overall performance of your sites using server-side optimization and by reducing HTTP requests.
- How to optimize your images, web fonts, JavaScript, and CSS.
- How to optimize for perceived performance by understanding render-blocking CSS and JavaScript.
- How to effectively optimize WordPress sites.
