Here is the 2nd Part of our training "Turbo Charge Your Site Speed, Part 2"
Achieve twice your speed. Both on desktop and mobile.
In case you missed Part 1, to grasp the best understanding of the material please click the link below to review this essential first lesson. Here it is:
In this lesson Part 2, we are going to setup your Gallery images, I will show you:
- How to organize them
- How to optimize each image in your Gallery so all of your Pages load super fast!
But first things first. Let’s make sure we have all of our weapons in order.
Step1: Get All Your Tools in Order
Here is a Master Checklist of all the items you will need ready before getting started:
- An activated website in WordPress on Site Rubix
- EWWW Image Optimizer or equivalent image optimizer plugin activated
- Google Page Speed Insights
- An Excel spreadsheet or equivalent
- A pencil and notepad
Note that technically you can have a website hosted elsewhere off Site Rubix, but for the simplicity of this tutorial I will limit this training to hosting here on Site Rubix.
You definitely want a head start with an image optimizer plugin activated, and since EWWW Image Optimizer is the default one recommended highly here at WA, after logging into your WordPress dashboard make sure it is first activated.
Google Page Speed Insights will be your guide and will tell you how to improve your speed. Uncle Google knows – listen to the Master!
The Excel spreadsheet (or Google Doc) will be to record detailed data on ALL of your images – believe me you are going to NEED this to keep track of all your images especially if you have a site with boatloads of images like mine. (My Site has over 700 images!)
You will need a pencil and paper near you to jot down temporary notes while you are working about your specific images i.e., file name or image #, image URL, new image URL, file size, image sizes, your thought about an image etc. before you enter these line by line in your spreadsheet in case you walk away from your computer or get distracted,
Now that you have all the items from your Master Checklist in order on your computer or by your side on a piece of paper, it’s time to get started!
IMPORTANT NOTE:
In the interest of time, this Part 2 lesson will assume you followed all the details in Part 1 and already know the detailed instructions of Part 1 on how to do the spreadsheet setup and Google Page Speed Insights.
If not, CLICK THE LINK on the top of Page 1 and please reread Part 1, Step 5: “Document and Assign EVERY IMAGE in your Spreadsheet by Pages and Posts” for the detailed instructions on what data to record on your spreadsheet.
Also please reread Step 6: “Identify Slow Pages and Determine Causes through Page Speed Insights” as this will always be your checking method.
Click “Next Page” and let’s go to Part 2 of the training!
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