{"id":1207,"date":"2018-10-06T18:35:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T01:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2018.riverside.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_session&#038;p=1207"},"modified":"2018-10-06T18:35:49","modified_gmt":"2018-10-07T01:35:49","slug":"stop-guessing-diagnosing-fixing-wordpress-performance","status":"publish","type":"wcb_session","link":"https:\/\/riverside.wordcamp.org\/2018\/session\/stop-guessing-diagnosing-fixing-wordpress-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Guessing: Diagnosing &amp; Fixing WordPress Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speed matters. People are impatient. If your website or a client&#8217;s website doesn&#8217;t load quickly &#8211; within a just a couple of seconds &#8211; many visitors will abandon it completely. A slow site means lost time &amp; revenue. But figuring out how to speed up a slow site can be HARD.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone&#8217;s got a suggestion and an idea for how to fix your performance issues. Disable this plugin, try this, try that &#8230; usually just guesses, and not based on real data.<\/p>\n<p>STOP GUESSING. If you have a performance issue, or just want to make your site faster, you need to KNOW exactly what is going on with your actual, live site in production.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll start by with an overview of WordPress page performance, and then focus on server response times, and what affects them. We&#8217;ll take a look at tools that will tell you exactly what plugins are slowing down your site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speed matters. People are impatient. If your website or a client&#8217;s website doesn&#8217;t load quickly &#8211; within a just a couple of seconds &#8211; many visitors will abandon it completely. A slow site means lost time &amp; revenue. But figuring out how to speed up a slow site can be HARD. Everyone&#8217;s got a suggestion &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riverside.wordcamp.org\/2018\/session\/stop-guessing-diagnosing-fixing-wordpress-performance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stop Guessing: Diagnosing &amp; Fixing WordPress Performance&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9987353,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_session_time":1541367000,"_wcpt_session_duration":3000,"_wcpt_session_type":"session","_wcpt_session_slides":"","_wcpt_session_video":"","_wcpt_speaker_id":[1205],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[1259053],"session_category":[13225],"class_list":["post-1207","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","hentry","wcb_track-john-hughes-high","wcb_session_category-sunday"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XPAG-jt","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"session_date_time":{"date":"November 4, 2018","time":"1:30 pm"},"session_speakers":[{"id":"1205","slug":"matt-kopala","name":"Matt Kopala","link":"https:\/\/riverside.wordcamp.org\/2018\/speaker\/matt-kopala\/"}],"session_cats_rendered":"Sunday","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverside.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/1207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverside.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverside.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverside.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9987353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/riverside.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/1207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1209,"href":"https:\/\/riverside.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/1207\/revisions\/1209"}],"speakers":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverside.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverside.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverside.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverside.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}