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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
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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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