Online! Episode 7 With Sondra Barker: Optimizing Your WordPress Websites for Speed 🚀 - a podcast by Amr Selim

🎧This is Online with Amr The Internet Guy! 

The show focuses on entrepreneurs and business owners, helping them become more successful in conducting their business on the web without being stuck with Technology 😱, getting a headache, pulling their hairs out, or buying expensive software! 

In this Show and Podcast, we will be sharing many tips and quick hacks to help you get ahead of your competition. Most of the episodes will be in an "interview" format where I will interview (or be interviewed by) Industry leaders, Web experts and Entrepreneurs from all over, bringing online BIZ to life. 

EP 7:

My guest today is Sondra Barker, She isn't just a social media agency owner/marketer but also a Food 🥂 and Travel 🌎 Connoisseur!

Check her site https://www.cuisineandtravel.com out! The quality of photos and recipes are Amazing. 

As you may expect, a large website with a lot of visual high-quality content comes with many challenges, and the chief challenge would be its speed! Sondra had discovered that her WordPress & Divi based website was not optimized at all and the page loading speed was slow even though she had good hosting and a good Caching plugin, so she embarked on this "long & painful" process of improving the speed and the overall page loading time of her website.

During this interview, Sondra shares her DIY website optimization experience and the approach she has taken - as a non-techie business owner - to make it 4 times faster! Brining it from an F to an A rating.  We go over the good stuff as well as the mistakes to avoid when embarking on your website optimization journey. 

Notes: 

1. Optimizing your WordPress website on your own? Listening to this episode 7 of Online with Amr The Internet guy and watching this tutorial https://humantalents.ca/wordpress-speed-optimization-tutorial-to-make-your-website-load-fast will help you get the job done, without complications. NO need to buy any expensive software or premium plugins. 


2. If you'd like all of that taking care of, we offer a website optimization service with a money-back guarantee: https://humantalents.ca/product/wordpress-performance-speed-service-to-speed-up-your-website-load-time

Contents:

0:55 - Intro, Cuisine and Travel Blogging and a Shout out to "Vancouver"

7:17 - The "Divi" WordPress Theme and Facebook group for Divi Designers

10:17 - The Website DIY Experience for non-Techies

14:35 - How to figure out if your website needs to be Optimized

17:33 - Taking action to speed up your WordPress/Divi Website

21:05 - How Sondra was able to increase her page loading speed and reduce the time to load by 75% or more

28:45 - Running your post-optimization checks and doing further updates & upgrades

35:49 - What is a CDN (Content Distribution Network) and how it works

40:29 - Resizing and Compressing your images and the importance of doing both (not just compressing)

44:25 - Why Optimizing your website is important

47:10 - Speed Optimization is only the start, what else? Navigation, Archives Optimization?

48:18 - Staying organized will let you benefit from optimizing your website, and give you better SEO Results.

53:30 - Where you should be hosting your videos (P.S: Not on your website) 

1:05:10 - Should I use a Child theme? 

Contact Sondra:

https://www.cuisineandtravel.com

FB: https://www.facebook.com/cuisineandtravel

Contact Amr:

https://humantalents.ca

Further episodes of Online 🌐 With Amr The Internet Guy, Helping business owners become more successful online

Further podcasts by Amr Selim

Website of Amr Selim