7. MOBILE FIRST
• Mobile First Indexing is already happening
• 70% of the world will be on 3G connection in 2020
8. ACCELERATED MOBILE PAGES
(AMP)
• Very Fast for Users
• Ranking factor for some Mobile Traffic - if Google gives AMP pages
priority (News Carousel)
• Improves server performance
• Requires caching
• Not ideal for every site or page
9. Tips & Tricks to a Faster Site
• DNS Resource Hints
• Use CDN
• Optimize Images
• Remove Sliders
• Use System Fonts
• Update to PHP 7+ (if this is your environment)
• HTTP/2 - Varnish
• Optimize Database
10. RESOURCE HINTS
• DNS Prefetch - rel="dns-prefetch"
• Preconnect - rel="preconnect"
• Prefetch - rel="prefetch“
• Live in the <head> section
• Should be the first items the browser sees
13. GTMetrix – YSlow Score
• Grades web pages based on one of
three predefined ruleset
• Offers suggestions for improving
the page's performance
• Summarizes the page's components
• Displays statistics about the page
20. WordPress Tricks
WordPress Plugins:
•CACHE - WP Super Cache (FREE) or WP Rocket (PAID)
•AMP for WordPress (Yoast AMP Glue plugin)
•WP-Sweep for database optimization
•Envira Gallery - fast gallery plugin
Framework/Child Theme = Genesis/StudioPress
WordPress Hosting = WP Engine
Environment = Migrate to PHP 7
Optimize Apache & NGINX
21. Tools We Use
• Deep Crawl
• GTMetrix
• WebPageTest
• Chrome DEV Tools
• PageSpeed
• YSlow
Link to tools we recommend -
https://marketingnomads.com/tools/