Improving the speed and performance of your WordPress site
Making sure your site runs quickly is absolutely critical. Google penalises slow sites in its search results and visitors won’t hang around to wait for your site to load so a slow site means you’re losing customers.
Pick a date and book your placeIf your WordPress site is slow, you're losing customers - it's that simple. Google penalises slow-loading sites in its search rankings, and research consistently shows that visitors abandon pages that take too long to load.
This one-hour webinar cuts through the complexity and gives you a clear, practical understanding of why site speed matters, how to diagnose performance problems, and exactly what you can do to fix them. Whether you're a complete beginner or someone who's been tinkering with WordPress for years, you'll leave with actionable steps you can implement straight away.
Over the course of the session, we'll cover everything from optimising your images and CSS files to understanding caching, choosing the right hosting, and using a Content Delivery Network (CDN). You'll learn how WordPress pages are actually constructed and what happens behind the scenes when a browser loads your site - knowledge that transforms you from someone who just guesses at fixes into someone who truly understands the problem.
Lifetime access for just £36
What you'll learn on this webinar
In just one hour we will cover:
- Why is site speed such a critical issue for website owners?
- How do you know if speed is a problem with your site?
- What makes sites run slowly?
- Understanding how WordPress pages are constructed
- What the browser needs to do in order to display your pages
- The importance of the ‘time to first byte’ metric
- How can different elements of your page be optimised for speed?
- Optimising image files – lazy loading, sizing your images and compressing them
- Optimising your HTML and CSS files
- Making sure your Javascript isn’t slowing down your site
- The role that your hosting plays in determining the speed of your site
- Overview of different hosting options
- Speed issues that are specific to WordPress sites
- Introduction to caching
- What is caching and why should you use it on your site?
- Free plugins that enable you to quickly and easily add caching to your site
- Using a Content Delivery Network (CDN)
- Questions
Who should attend this webinar?
This webinar is designed for anyone who has a WordPress site and wants to learn more about how to improve its performance and make it run as quickly as possible.
Why Awesome Tech Training?
We are Rachel, Lorna and Steve - three friends who have worked together on and off for more than 25 years. Each of us has (many!) years of experience in different aspects of digital marketing and web development.
We’ve always enjoyed working together and in 2019 we decided to formalise this arrangement and so we set up Awesome Tech Training. Rachel is based in the UK home counties, whilst Lorna and Steve are based near Dundalk in Ireland.
Over the past few years we’ve build a range of webinars and other training courses firmly based on our own experiences of marketing, sales and web development in the real world.
We’ve been at this for a while, so we know what the pitfalls are, what can go wrong, what the most common problems are and how to address them!
We try and bring this real world, practical approach into everything that we do – offering webinar attendees and other clients the benefit of our own experience to apply to their specific circumstances.
Our clients tend to be small businesses who don’t have the resource to outsource their whole marketing operation and want to be able to take control of it themselves.
Our training is designed to be affordable, practically focused and results oriented so you can start putting what you’ve learned into practice immediately and get quick results.
More than 5,000 people have come on our webinars – see what our customers say about us here.
What's included?
You can register to join this webinar on one of the dates that we run it live, or you can opt for instant access to the on demand version which gives you access to a recording of this webinar the last time it was delivered live. Every time we deliver it live we update the on demand version so you'll always have access to the very latest version.
The recording includes the Q&A session at the end of the live webinar and you also get a downloadable copy of the slides for your reference.
If you'd like to ask us questions or get help with anything you can book a free half hour 'clinic' session with us and talk to us live or ask questions via email.
Anyone who signs up for the live version also gets access to the on demand version immediately after the webinar has run.
What people say about our webinars
Helen Tilley
Another brilliant webinar, so much useful information, tips and hints. I'm so pleased you record too, so I can go back to things I missed! This is normally a lot as I get so inspired to go off on tangents to look into all the useful things! Or it triggers me to think of other considerations for my business. For someone who can be a bit overwhelmed by the enormity of the digital world, Awesome Tech Training help make things much simpler and easy to understand and apply, particularly as a small and start up business. Many thanks and I look forward to upcoming webinars!
Steph Kirk
I've been on 4 webinars now and these guys really know their stuff. I have thrown some curveball questions, and some that tip a little bit out of the remit of the course, and they have still answered clearly and helpfully. They've really helped me to improve not only my website but my ad campaigns as well. I am yet to try their free half hour 1-1 but I am happy it's something I have at my disposal when I have my thoughts in order!
Colin Stewart
One of the most useful training webinars I have attended. Very clear and easy to understand. And actually contains useful information! Rare these days. Thank you.
Liezl de Wouters d'Oplinter
Attended a webinar with them and WOW! I learnt so many valuable things that is not normally the case with free sessions. Really informative with high quality actions and suggestions with a lot of free resources as well. Will definitely keep a look out for other events from them.
Rowena Vaughan
Excellent, clear and informative webinar. I would recommend start ups and mature businesses watch this. Very useful.
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