Performance Matters: Optimizing Page Load

Envato Tuts+ Courses

Course Description

In this course you’ll learn how to improve web-page performance. We’ll cover what that means, why it’s so important to consider, and how you can optimize your web pages so they perform well.

What You’ll Learn

• What website performance is and how you can measure it.
• Why the difference between overall and perceived performance is important.
• How to use Google’s DevTools and PageSpeed insights.
• How to optimise the overall performance of your sites using server-side optimisation and by reducing HTTP requests.
• How to optimize your images, webfonts, JavaScript, and CSS.
• How to optimise for perceived performance by understanding render blocking CSS and JavaScript.
• How to effectively optimise WordPress sites.

About the Instructor

Adi Purdila is an expert web designer and developer based in Romania. He’s created more than thirty courses for Envato Tuts+, on every conceivable web design topic; from Bootstrap, WordPress, and Foundation, to Sass and Sketch. You can check out his portfolio, follow him on Twitter, and see his ThemeForest portfolio.