WordPress Page Speed Optimization (improve SEO), 2022 update

Learn how to optimize your WordPress website for lightning-fast loading speeds! This friendly course guides you through easy steps to boost performance and enhance user experience.

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Brief Summary

This course teaches you how to make your WordPress website load incredibly fast, ensuring better visitor retention and conversion rates. It's packed with easy, practical tips!

Key Points

  • Optimize WordPress for loading speeds less than 3 seconds.
  • Learn the impact of website speed on user experience and conversions.
  • Discover easy methods to test and improve your site’s performance.

Learning Outcomes

  • Master practical techniques for website speed optimization.
  • Understand the importance of load time for online business.
  • Gain skills to manage server-side cache and image optimization.

About This Course

Optimize your WordPress website to load in less than 3s and increase the visitor retention and conversions.

WordPress is the most popular content management system (CMS) in the World. It is used by about 25% of all the websites available online. But most of the Wordpress-based websites are not well optimized.

And there's a reason for it to be so popular - it is easy to use and there are lot of plugins and themes that make it easy to customize and upgrade. But in order to have that kind of flexibility we sacrifice speed and loading time. Every plugin install or every image uploaded affects the website performance.

In this course you will learn how to optimize your WordPress site for maximum speed and fast loading. You can start with a website that loads for 15 or 20 seconds, but after you go through all the optimizations steps explained in the videos you will have a website that loads in less than 5 seconds (sometimes less than 3 seconds).

A faster websites leads to better user experience, higher visitor retentions, better conversions and higher ranking in the Google search results. Here are some real life examples and stats that support that thesis:

KissMetrics found that:

- 47% of consumers expect a website to load in 2 seconds or less;
- A 1 second delay in loading decreases customer satisfaction by 16%;
- A 1 second delay in page response can result in a 7% reduction in conversions;

CDNetworks give us other stats:

- 39% of e-retailers claimed they lost money last year due to performance or stability problems;
- Cutting just 3 seconds off load time generates a revenue increase of 7-12%;
- Amazon’s calculated that page load slowdown of just one second could cost it $1.6 billion in sales each year;
- 21% of online shoppers abandoned shopping carts because the process was taking too long;
- Four in 10 Americans give up accessing a mobile shopping site that won’t load in just three seconds;

Even if the speed is so crucial you will still find a lot of web sites which are not optimized. A random tests shows that 90% of the WordPress websites are not optimized and the loading time of each of these sites can be reduced in half.

In the first section of the course you can see how you can test your website and to find if it is optimized and what kind of improvements it needs. Every component that affects the web site speed is explained and optimizations methods are then suggested. You will learn how to optimize the following:

- First byte time;
- Keep-alive enabled;
- Compress transfer;
- Compress images;
- Cache static content;
- Effective use of CDN;

In the course you will see a real life example. All the resources used to optimize the WordPress website are free.


About the author

My name is Stanil Dobrev and I'm a full stack web developer with 25+ years experience. I'm a WordPress developer for more than 15 years and I have created hundreds of Wordpress websites and lot of custom themes and plugins. My most popular plugins are "Fast Member", "Social Time Master" and "Interactive Video Player". I always strive to provide the best possible quality with my products and services and I have thousand of happy customers.

Important part of the WordPress development is the performance optimizations and this is something that I focused on for the last 4 years. I tested hundreds of methods for WordPress speed optimization and I have compiled the most easy and most effective of them all. In this video course I share my experience as a WordPress developer and explain the optimization process I go through for every website I build for clients. I hope you will find it useful! :-)

  • You will be able to optimize any WordPress website to load in less than 5 seconds (in most cases less than 3 seconds).

  • You will learn how to configure server-side cache for faster website loading and optimized use of server resources.

  • You will learn how to optimize images in bulk by using free software.

Course Curriculum

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Stanil Dobrev

My name is Stanil Dobrev and I'm a full stack web developer with 25+ years experience. I'm a WordPress developer for more than 15 years and I have created hundreds of Wordpress websites and lot of custom themes and plugins. My most popular plugins are "Fast Member", "Social Time Master" and "Interactive Video Player". I always strive to provide the...

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ui-avatar of Mark Roberts
Mark R.
1.0
2 years ago

The first three videos looked like they were 5+ years old. I watched a video of you explaining that we would be using webpagetest.org as the main tool in this course, but video #5 shows you using Pagespeed Insights. Also, I think I watched you spend 1-2 minutes updated and deleting plugins lol. Developers don't need to learn how to do that.

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ui-avatar of Tayyab Saeed
Tayyab S.
1.0
3 years ago

An absolutely outdated course recorded back in 2016. It has got nothing to do with today's speed testing tools. I wasted my money. Wish I could get back that.

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ui-avatar of Michael Galaraga
Michael G.
5.0
3 years ago

i am learning so much with this course. Great!!!

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ui-avatar of Muhammad Usama
Muhammad U.
5.0
3 years ago

Great !

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ui-avatar of Samuel Ajayi
Samuel A.
5.0
4 years ago

Straight to the point actionable advice.

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ui-avatar of Prashant Bhatnagar
Prashant B.
3.0
4 years ago

The content on this course needs to be updated.

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ui-avatar of Mani Sulur
Mani S.
5.0
4 years ago

I love his accent and was OK. I may require additional information to make my own website faster and optimized.

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ui-avatar of Mirko Coppola
Mirko C.
3.5
5 years ago

Il corso buono come base, solo che daun certo video in poi non c'era l'audio

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Charles N.
4.0
5 years ago

Good course for those folks running Apache or making use of a hosting provider that uses Apache. This is a solid foundational course for WordPress page speed optimization.

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ui-avatar of Victoria Neumann
Victoria N.
5.0
5 years ago

great course, very helpful!

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