A short presentation on presentation, delivered at the Wordpress London Meetup.

1. I feel the need...
... the need for SPEED

2. A page load looks like this...

3. How can we improve this?
1. Less page weight
2. Fewer HTTP requests

4. Pimp your htaccess

5. Pimp your htaccess >
Gzip

6. Pimp your htaccess >
Cache Expires

7. Pimp your htaccess >
Cache expires - Cache busting
style.css?v=2 No
style.2.css
Yes

8. Pimp your htaccess >
Cache expires - Cache busting
style.1251992914.css

9. Concat/min all of the things >
CSS & JS

10. Concat/min all of the things >
Icon Fonts & Image Sprites
Think SVG

11. Concat/min all of the things >
Optimise Images

12. Do you need to load that? >
Use CSS3 where possible
• Gradients
• Rounded Corners
• Shadows
• Transparency
• Display Fonts

13. Do you need to load that? >
Responsive Images
Outsource
responsive.io
resrc.it

14. I wanna
go fast...