WEBVTT 00:00.120 --> 00:05.630 So guys in this lecture we're going to be talking about speeding up your website. 00:05.640 --> 00:13.140 Now in today's society when everything is going so fast we're used to such a high pace we need to have 00:13.170 --> 00:16.020 a website that loads really quickly. 00:16.170 --> 00:21.120 Your visitors are not going to be patient and wait around for it to be loading. 00:21.510 --> 00:25.190 So here we're going to be learning how to make your website faster. 00:25.200 --> 00:27.890 Why if it isn't obvious already. 00:27.990 --> 00:30.660 And also how it works. 00:30.660 --> 00:32.310 So the number one reason is why. 00:32.340 --> 00:34.410 Well the first one is self-evident. 00:34.500 --> 00:35.820 It is for your visitors. 00:35.820 --> 00:37.240 They're not going to be patient. 00:37.260 --> 00:39.510 They're not going to be waiting around. 00:39.510 --> 00:40.680 Everything happens quickly. 00:40.680 --> 00:43.470 Your website need to happen quickly as well. 00:43.470 --> 00:51.270 Now another thing is actually for S E O search engine optimization now the faster your website loads 00:51.480 --> 00:56.280 the happier these search engines are going to be about it and rank you higher. 00:56.430 --> 00:58.830 If you don't know what that means don't worry. 00:58.830 --> 01:04.320 In the next lecture we're going to be talking about SEO and install a plug in for that. 01:04.500 --> 01:10.170 But for now let's just know that the faster your website is the happier your visitors will be and the 01:10.170 --> 01:12.330 happier the search engines will be. 01:12.330 --> 01:14.670 So how do we speed up your Web site. 01:14.670 --> 01:21.390 Well we're going to use something called caching and caching is basically taking all of your big files 01:21.510 --> 01:28.670 on your Web sites such as the header such as the pictures may be possible videos whatever it might be 01:28.680 --> 01:32.400 as heavy images weigh a lot especially when you have a lot on your Web site. 01:32.400 --> 01:39.130 We're going to take all of those compressed them into smaller sizes and put them in a so-called cash. 01:39.240 --> 01:42.430 Basically you're not going to have everything load instantly. 01:42.420 --> 01:49.310 Instead you're going to have your visitors save this cash on their computer so that they can pre load. 01:49.350 --> 01:49.650 Right. 01:49.650 --> 01:54.720 They don't have to download everything and make it appear rather it will be saved on their computer 01:54.990 --> 02:00.920 and they can just appear much faster which is going to be giving them a better experience. 02:00.930 --> 02:03.030 So that is what caching is. 02:03.030 --> 02:06.220 And that is how you speed up your Web sites. 02:06.220 --> 02:13.470 Now I already have a cash plug in of course like always that I use myself it's super easy and I strongly 02:13.470 --> 02:14.070 recommend it. 02:14.070 --> 02:15.850 We're gonna install it and go through it. 02:16.200 --> 02:21.980 But if you decide to do your own research here are the top three things to look for. 02:21.990 --> 02:25.110 Number one is extra home piece shakes. 02:25.170 --> 02:31.680 Now a lot of people usually are going to be spending a lot of time on your home page and likely even 02:31.680 --> 02:36.210 if you have navigation and great navigation people may be returning to your home page. 02:36.210 --> 02:41.880 So having a cash plug in that's going to do extra checks on your home page is going to be great to make 02:41.880 --> 02:47.460 sure that it's not slow loading because if that part on your Web site is slow then their experience 02:47.460 --> 02:49.870 is going to be heavily deteriorated. 02:49.920 --> 02:55.320 And then next to number two is content delivery network support. 02:55.320 --> 02:57.670 This is called C.D. and support. 02:57.900 --> 03:04.440 And basically it means that when someone visits your Web site they're going to be loading the files 03:04.440 --> 03:06.500 from where you have your files. 03:06.510 --> 03:12.330 For example if you're using Blue Hose and you have your files in the U.S. then wherever they come from 03:12.510 --> 03:19.350 they're going to have to load the files your images your articles the header the videos et cetera from 03:19.410 --> 03:20.860 the U.S.. 03:20.910 --> 03:28.020 Now what the CDM support does is that it takes all of your cache files and it puts it at different servers 03:28.050 --> 03:29.250 around the world. 03:29.250 --> 03:36.180 So for example if you are living in Australia and there is a CDM survey in Australia they will be downloading 03:36.240 --> 03:43.260 all of the files and contents of your website from Australia which is going to load so much faster rather 03:43.260 --> 03:46.170 than downloading it from USA. 03:46.170 --> 03:51.660 OK so that is what the CDMA network is and it's one of those things that makes your website so much 03:51.660 --> 03:52.080 faster. 03:52.080 --> 03:55.380 I strongly recommend it you find a plug in the headsets. 03:55.500 --> 03:58.430 And the third thing is a preload. 03:58.470 --> 04:04.080 Now first time visitors coming to your website are first going to have to visit the website and then 04:04.110 --> 04:05.260 they will be catched. 04:05.340 --> 04:10.110 And of course that means that everyone's first experience might be slow and that's no good. 04:10.110 --> 04:16.530 You want to have a plug in that has a pre load setting meaning you can pre catch everything and then 04:16.530 --> 04:22.470 put it to your visitors so even their first time experience will be great and fast. 04:22.470 --> 04:28.280 Remember high pay society our website our business need to match this. 04:28.290 --> 04:34.870 So now when we understand how to speed up our website and what it does let's go ahead and do just that. 04:34.890 --> 04:39.200 So I am in the ad plug in section at the back end for Web site. 04:39.240 --> 04:45.960 I'm gonna go to search plug ins and I'm going to search for wordpress super cash and looking to the 04:45.960 --> 04:46.350 left. 04:46.350 --> 04:53.520 Here it is it has a lot of installations and even though it is not updated so it's untested with the 04:53.520 --> 04:56.600 current WordPress we can trust this one. 04:56.730 --> 05:02.630 This one is created by automatic which is the same bunch of guys who helped create WordPress dot org 05:02.720 --> 05:04.530 and created WordPress dot com. 05:04.850 --> 05:09.590 So these are part of the programs for the platform that we're currently using. 05:09.590 --> 05:15.710 So this plug in has been around for a long time and I expect it to stay around for a long long time 05:15.800 --> 05:16.740 as well. 05:16.880 --> 05:23.170 So we're gonna go ahead and install it and then just click on activate and there we go it's installed 05:23.180 --> 05:29.240 so now all we're gonna do is move over to settings which is where is resides and go to the bottom where 05:29.240 --> 05:33.220 it says WP super cache and then it's pretty straightforward. 05:33.230 --> 05:37.320 All you're gonna do is click on catch on and then update the status. 05:37.340 --> 05:40.220 And now it will be on and working. 05:40.220 --> 05:43.260 So there are a couple of things that we want to set up in here. 05:43.280 --> 05:45.420 All you need to do is follow along with me. 05:45.440 --> 05:49.160 It's actually super easy we're just gonna use the recommended settings. 05:49.310 --> 05:52.130 So first let's move on to advanced in here. 05:52.250 --> 05:58.100 What we're gonna do is we're going to remove this one don't cache pages for known users which is great. 05:58.100 --> 06:04.700 In case you're doing updates for frequent visitors then they and you won't be able to see those updates 06:05.000 --> 06:08.450 so you don't want to cast a page for those known users. 06:08.720 --> 06:13.490 And then we have compressed pages so that they serve more quickly to visitors which is also great the 06:13.490 --> 06:15.890 more compressed the faster they're going to load. 06:15.920 --> 06:17.860 We're just going to go with the recommended settings here. 06:17.870 --> 06:19.730 That just works great. 06:19.730 --> 06:22.340 Scrolling down we have that super important setting. 06:22.340 --> 06:26.060 I was talking about earlier extra home page checks. 06:26.090 --> 06:28.060 I'm gonna check that one as well. 06:28.100 --> 06:34.580 Scroll down and click on update status and then we're gonna move into the CDM and we're going to be 06:34.580 --> 06:36.550 enabling that support. 06:36.570 --> 06:37.070 Right. 06:37.370 --> 06:43.610 And then we're gonna save the changes again and let's move over to contents and in here you're gonna 06:43.610 --> 06:48.590 be able to see everything that's been cash how heavy they are how much there is but there's nothing 06:48.590 --> 06:49.960 for us to do here. 06:50.030 --> 06:56.150 What we could do is that we could delete the cache which we can also do from up above here should we 06:56.150 --> 07:01.550 want to reset it because we have done some major updates or just to test the speed. 07:01.550 --> 07:08.090 For example they can all be deleted up here and then we're gonna move over to preload and here we're 07:08.090 --> 07:15.500 going to settings so that the refresh preload the cache fast for every I like to put 1440 minutes because 07:15.500 --> 07:16.430 that's a day. 07:16.490 --> 07:20.690 So we're going to refresh the preloaded cache files every day right. 07:20.690 --> 07:24.580 So this is a standard setting and I recommend to use it as well. 07:24.590 --> 07:29.600 Now we're gonna make sure that we have preload activated by clicking here and we're also going to go 07:29.600 --> 07:32.990 ahead and preload tags and categories and other taxonomy. 07:32.990 --> 07:38.570 Now we've gone through tags and categories already and we will be making sure to be using those and 07:38.570 --> 07:41.630 then we're gonna click on save settings. 07:41.630 --> 07:43.900 And once we've done this everything is set up. 07:43.910 --> 07:50.930 It's on and running and it's making your website faster however since we just recently started this 07:51.040 --> 07:54.970 website there isn't going to be too much things on it. 07:55.010 --> 08:01.850 So you're probably not going to be noticing any improvement right now but ask you continue building 08:01.850 --> 08:08.450 your website building your business then you're going to be having a noticeable effect working in the 08:08.450 --> 08:09.340 background. 08:09.350 --> 08:14.060 We're just going to make sure that we set this from the beginning so that your website is always as 08:14.060 --> 08:16.480 fast as it possibly can be. 08:16.490 --> 08:23.060 Now if you want to test the speed of your website what you can do is use this age old tool is called 08:23.090 --> 08:24.050 pinged them. 08:24.140 --> 08:29.980 So I'm gonna put this tool in the resources as well and all you do is that you write in your website 08:29.990 --> 08:34.070 in here and then you can test it from different places to see how fast it loads. 08:34.160 --> 08:40.460 So what you might want to do if you are unsure about this plug in for some reason is go over to plug 08:40.460 --> 08:43.220 ins in here to your installed plug ins. 08:43.280 --> 08:47.920 Scroll down to your WP super catch deactivated. 08:48.020 --> 08:53.830 Test the speed of your website and then reactivated test the speed of your website and you're going 08:53.830 --> 08:54.980 to see the difference. 08:55.190 --> 08:58.160 Now again you're probably not going to see an a difference in the beginning. 08:58.160 --> 08:59.890 Your website doesn't have too many things. 08:59.990 --> 09:03.450 But as time goes it's going to be a huge difference. 09:03.470 --> 09:07.250 It's just one of these things we want to get right from the beginning. 09:07.250 --> 09:11.330 Awesome guys I'll see you in the next lecture when we're gonna go through. 09:11.330 --> 09:12.510 S E O. 09:12.590 --> 09:14.320 Which is such a huge topic. 09:14.330 --> 09:14.930 See you there.