Can you really say you’re building websites if you’ve never gotten a call about a website feeling slow? For years, performance on the web has been one of those things that many have tried to quantify. Like reproducing a tricky bug, nailing down how and why things on the web feel slow is usually harder than actually speeding them up. In this talk, we’ll run through examples from real WordPress sites and dig into how we can speed up our websites and make sure they stay that way.
Take aways:
- How can I measure the performance of my website in a way that is consistent and actionable?
- How can I meaningfully improve the performance metrics I capture?
- How can I continually monitor the performance of my website over time?