Ep. 139 - One of the hottest topics right now in web design is how to speed up your websites, increase performance and get the coveted “A” on any number of speed check tools.
In order to help you get a grasp of how to get better page speeds and load times, we’re going to do a 2-part “speed series” over the next two podcasts.
This podcast, part 1 of the series, is more of a beginners guide to speeding up your site and it’s taken from my good friend and colleague Tim Strifler of DiviLife.com who just recently published an amazing, quick 5-step guide to speeding up your Divi website.
This will be a perfect introduction to website speed and will help us lay the foundation for the most important aspects of speed and optimization as the next episode (ep 140) will go deeper and more advanced into caching, loading elements, media assets, etc.
P.S. One important thing to consider with performance and speed is UX and conversion. There has to be a healthy balance of both. Sometimes people are so focused on an “A” score that the design, layout and conversion tactics suffer. I follow the common sense approach speed, meaning that as long as the site loads pretty dang quick and converts really well, I’m satisfied with that. Tim and I talked about that in depth in this interview.
All that to say...don’t get too hung up on getting a high 90’s speed score at the expense of your conversion rate, time and profitability!
In This Episode
00:14 - Podcast Prelude
01:42 - Free 10 Step plan
03:39 - Welcome to Tim
06:09 - Hot topic - Speed
06:34 - Divi 4.10
10:14 - 1) Use great hosting
13:37 - Siteground
14:56 - Flywheel
16:45 - WPEngine
21:50 - Dad bods
22:14 - 2) Proper Caching
23:03 - How caching works
25:46 - WPRocket plugin
28:30 - Divi static CSS file
30:53 - Replicate what works
31:48 - Testing trial and error
33:14 - Don’t focus on score
38:23 - 3)Optimize images
46:20 - 4) Plugins
47:44 - Evaluate your site
51:00 - 5) CDN
53:55 - Stackpath
58:12 - Tim’s final thoughts
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