Speed is important

This was a recent talk that I gave at Experian about the simple steps that you can take to ensure that your website runs faster. http://deanhume.com

1. Speed is Important
2. @deanohume deanhume.com
3. How important is speed?
4. Purposely injected a 100ms delay into their page load times. This decreased their sales by 1 %
5. $10,711,000,000
6. £66 Million That’s massive!
7. At Bing, a 2 seconds delay caused a 4.3% drop in revenue per user.
9. So where do we start?
10. The easiest place first
11. Scalable. Quick. Easy.
12. Its all about making the size of the page smaller
13. ImageCompression Expiry Headers Minify JavaScript & CSS Compression
15. Minify JavaScript & CSS ajaxmin.codeplex.com Visual Studio 2012
16. Image Compression Kraken.io Smush.it
17. Compression Enabled in IIS in 3 clicks Enabled in Web.config
18. Expiry Headers Enabled in IIS in 3 clicks Enabled in Web.config
19. You will need help along the way
20. Developer tools = best friend
21. Use these tools Yahoo! YSlow Google PageSpeed
22. Test from different locations around the world Webpagetest.org
23. Think about mobile devices and tablets
25. Show me the difference!
27. Everyone fast
28. Thank you. Any questions?