secrets to website optimization

Seattle Joomla User Group November 25th, 2014

Secrets to Website Optimization

!by Tessa Mero !

http://SeattleJoomla.com

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Summary

• Who Am I?

• Why Optimize?

• What Are The Factors? (and the break down)

• Tools

• Conclusion

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Who Am I?

• College Instructor

• Joomla! Developer

• Open Source Contributor

• Mother

• Snowboarder

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Why Optimize?

• Better Performance

• More Successful Website

• Better Search Engine Ranking

• Faster Page Load

• More Viewers

4

What Are The Factors?

• HTTP requests

• Total size

• Number of HTML / CSS images

• Number of CSS / JS (scripts) files.

• Size of CSS / JS / HTML images.

• Check for duplicate JS files.

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How to Analyze Site Performance?

Tools

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• Joomla! Built In Tools !

• 3rd Party Tools !• Browser Tools

Built-In Tools

Joomla! has a few built-in tools to increase your site

performance. !

Obviously it’s not enough!

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Gzip Compression8

Built- in

Tools

Turn on Joomla Cache9

Built- in

Tools

Modules: Enable Cache10

Built- in

Tools

Uninstall Unused Extensions11

Built- in

Tools

Remove Statistics12

Built- in

Tools

3rd Party Tools

You can always do more to increase your site

performance. !

If it’s free, why not?

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JCH Optimize Plugin14

3rd Party Tools

Optimize Database Tables15

3rd Party Tools

Manually: phpMyAdmin > Your Database > Select All Tables > Optimize Tables

Compress Images16

3rd Party Tools

• JPEGmini • imageoptimizer.net!• smush.it

Browser ToolsMac App

Browser Tools

There are a few browser tools to help you make your

site more optimized.

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Google Page Speed18

Browser Tools

developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/optimization

Google Insights19

Browser Tools

developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights

Conclusion

Now that you’ve learned all this, I expect your websites all to load twice as fast by tomorrow.

!

Thank you.

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@TessaMero

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tessa.mero@joomla.org

Thank You!