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Why is Wordpress Slow?

KeyCDN

Unfortunately, it is a bit difficult to point out the problem directly– there are many possibilities that we will explore in this article. But this article won't just help you figure out why your WordPress website is not fast enough. So let's discuss the process one step at a time. This increases your website's load time.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Scott Jehl.

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2021 in review: It was a big year!

Speed Curve

This" can mean anything from design and features to our own internal processes. We've also grown our team, expanded our customer base, completed a full-scale site redesign, launched our in-house consulting practice, and refined our tools and processes. Performance Budgets 101. Performance Culture Best Practices.

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Don’t Sink Your Website With Third Parties

Smashing Magazine

You may have a lean, agile, responsive site design only to find it gradually loaded down with more and more “extras” that are often put onto the site by marketing departments or business leaders who are not always thinking about website performance. They are more of a benchmark than a true measurement of real user experience.

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How I Used Brotli to Get Even Smaller CSS and JavaScript Files at CDN Scale

CSS - Tricks

This article is about my experience using Brotli at production scale. At that time, I was working as a freelance website performance consultant. In my benchmarks, Brotli:11 takes several hundred milliseconds to compress a single minified jQuery file. It costs significantly more in terms of CPU time.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021

Smashing Magazine

Micro-optimizations are great for keeping performance on track, but it’s critical to have clearly defined targets in mind — measurable goals that would influence any decisions made throughout the process. Establish a performance culture. In fact, choosing the right metric is a process without obvious winners.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2020 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Establish a performance culture. There are many tools allowing you to achieve that: SiteSpeed.io