232 - 'L' is for Loading

June 03, 2021 00:58:43
232 - 'L' is for Loading
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232 - 'L' is for Loading

Jun 03 2021 | 00:58:43

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A-Z of WordPress’ with Nathan Wrigley and David Waumsley

Hello, It’s another A-Z of WordPress. The series where we attempt to cover all the major aspects to building and maintaining sites with WP.  Today is for L for Loading (Pages Faster).

Preamble

Luckily with Google’s Core Web Vital about to drop in June as SEO no one is talking about speed!!! Not a single person has tested their pages in years. It is perfectly fine for us to talk freely without fear of being fact checked!

No one cares how long WordPress takes to load and what loads!

Core Web Vitals is

We’d all like to pin this down, so here’s some of what it is:

What WordPress loads

This is what WordPress loads by default:

Tools for looking at the load

Here are a list of some of the tools that we know of to measure page load:

Tools for Speeding up sites

These are tools that purport to speed up your site for you:

Good plugins and bad plugins

What makes a plugin good or bad? Well here’s come thoughts:

Other (hosting) Factors

Final thoughts from David

I suspect our focus on what is loading is going to be good for us. I have been obsessed and lost with performance before and see the same inability to rationalise the issue in others and the same misleading marketing is used, but I think there will be no escaping it.

Long term, I do not see this being a massive boost for Gutenberg (it has a TTFB advantage along with being underdeveloped). Everyone can see the Emperor’s New clothes. There is the Halo effect too!

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