Speed

Are your site visitors waiting too long to see what they came for?
It’s likely you have too many render-blocking elements loading prior to the main content.
Instead of waiting to see something, visitors just bounce and leave your site.
And that costs you money.
Discover what render-blocking elements are and how to reduce them on your site for faster page load time.

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Running tests on popular online speed testers like WebPage Test, GTMetrix, Pingdom, and Google PageSpeed Insights can give you radically different results.

Cut through all that noise and learn the basics of running an accurate speed test and see what’s dragging down your page load time.

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Now that site speed is an SEO ranking factor, it’s more important than ever that your site runs fast.
I’m delighted to announce an updated series of performance testing tutorials in Level 4 of my Webmaster Training courses.

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Proper image optimization is the biggest bang for the buck you can get for faster page load time.
And there is no plugin that can hold a candle to you fully optimizing an image prior to upload. In fact, most of those plugins don’t even work.

In this video I’ll show you where to get a super tutorial for better image optimization and how to test that your process is working well.

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Bringing anything into your site from social media will radically slow page load time.
Pinterest images are, by far, one of the worst offenders.
See just how much a Pinterest widget slows down your page load, and a super easy widget alternative that will still send visitors directly to your Pinterest boards.

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