The slides presented by me in WordCamp Nepal 2014 which was organized by WordPress Nepal Community

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2. COZ SPEED MATTERS
Sakar Upadhyaya Khatiwada ( @sakaruk )

3. Why?
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4. Marissa Mayer ( then VP of google ),
shared results on
web 2.0 conference 2009
that
delay of 0.5 sec
dropped the traffic by
20%
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5. In 2006, Amazon
reported that a
5
100-millisecond increase
in page speed
resulted to a
1% increase in its revenue.

6. Akamai study 2009 shows
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47% of visitors expect a page to
load in under 2 seconds,
And
57% of visitors will abandon a
page that takes more than
3 seconds to load.

7. Google announced in a blog post that
its algorithm takes page speed
into account when ranking
websites.
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8. Why speed up?
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Better user experience

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Search engine ranking

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Higher Conversion Rate

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For visitors retention

13. Why its slows?
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14. Web Hosting
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15. Size of Graphics
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Number of HTTP requests

17. Server Loads
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WordPress Configurations

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Software Performance

20. How to test?
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21. Pingdom
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22. Google Developers :
PageSpeed Insights
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23. Yahoo! Yslow
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24. GTMetrix
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25. How to speed up?
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26. Preventive
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27. Reduce files
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Secondary files in end

29. Object and Query
Caching
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30. Sometimes hardcode is
good
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Follow the standards

32. Curative
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33. To Plugins
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34. Less Plugins
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35. Reliable Plugins
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36. Monitor plugins
P3 Profiler
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37. To Theme
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38. Reliable sources
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39. Reduce Images
WP Smush.it, EWWW Image Optimizer,
CW Image Optimizer
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40. Reduce Files
WP Minify, Better WordPress Minify,
W3 Total Cache
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41. To Whole Site
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42. Right hosting
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43. Caching & Compression
W3 Total Cache, WP Super Cache
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44. Use CDN
MaxCDN, CloudFlare, jsDelivr
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45. Reduce Post Revisions,
Drafts, Spams
WP Optimize, WP-DBManager
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46. Empty Your Trash
define ('EMPTY_TRASH_DAYS', 0);
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47. Stay Updated
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48. References
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• http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Optimization
• http://www.akamai.com/html/about/press/releases/2009/press_091409.html
• http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com.au/2010/04/using-site-speed-in-web-search-
ranking.html
• http://www.montparnas.com/articles/more-evidence-that-speed-is-key-to-user-experience/
• http://www.copyblogger.com/website-speed-matters/
• http://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/tips-tricks/optimize-your-wordpress-website
• http://www.sitepoint.com/speed-wordpress/
• http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-move-javascripts-to-the-bottom-or-footer-
in-wordpress/
• http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/10-best-image-optimization-plugins-to-speed-up-your-
wordpress-site/
• http://www.siteground.com/tutorials/wordpress/optimize_wordpress.htm
• http://www.wpexplorer.com/free-cdn-services-for-wordpress/
• http://www.wpexplorer.com/wordpress-caching/
• http://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/tips-tricks/eight-useful-code-snippets-for-wordpress
• http://www.tailored4wp.com/get-a-better-performance-with-wordpress-transients-api-
501/
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Options_API

49. THANK YOU!
Any Queries ??
(@sakaruk)