{"id":194712,"date":"2014-09-06T17:14:58","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T07:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.sydney.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_speaker&#038;p=194712"},"modified":"2014-09-09T23:46:25","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T13:46:25","slug":"james-banks","status":"publish","type":"wcb_speaker","link":"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2014\/speaker\/james-banks\/","title":{"rendered":"James Banks"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>99 quick tips on how to optimise WordPress for speed &amp; performance<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Avenir','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif\">Did you know that nearly half of web users expect a site to load in 2 seconds or less, and they tend to abandon a site that is not loaded within 3 seconds? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Avenir','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif\">If you are a WordPress developer or site owner, optimising WordPress for speed and performance is super important if you want to convert more leads, customers and sales for your clients or from your own WordPress site. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Avenir','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif\">For this presentation, I\u2019ll show you 99 ways that you can decrease your site\u2019s load times and increase the front-end, back-end and server-side performance of WordPress.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Bio<\/h4>\n<p>James has been working with WordPress primarily as a front-end developer for almost half a decade.<\/p>\n<p>He has helped hundreds of local, national and international brands, from startups to multi-million dollar companies, achieve success online through his WordPress specialist agency, Web3 (http:\/\/web3.com.au).<\/p>\n<p>Being a speaker at WordCamp Melbourne, Startup Weekend and various other web &amp; tech meetups, James is seriously passionate about WordPress and giving back to the local WordPress community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>99 quick tips on how to optimise WordPress for speed &amp; performance Did you know that nearly half of web users expect a site to load in 2 seconds or less, and they tend to abandon a site that is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2014\/speaker\/james-banks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">James Banks<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10504913,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_user_name":"jr.banks","footnotes":""},"speaker_group":[],"class_list":["post-194712","wcb_speaker","type-wcb_speaker","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/263579375fc5a3d0df0815ad34bab4bb99b296c9a377b55ee555368759d2625c?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/263579375fc5a3d0df0815ad34bab4bb99b296c9a377b55ee555368759d2625c?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/263579375fc5a3d0df0815ad34bab4bb99b296c9a377b55ee555368759d2625c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","128":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/263579375fc5a3d0df0815ad34bab4bb99b296c9a377b55ee555368759d2625c?s=128&d=mm&r=g","256":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/263579375fc5a3d0df0815ad34bab4bb99b296c9a377b55ee555368759d2625c?s=256&d=mm&r=g","512":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/263579375fc5a3d0df0815ad34bab4bb99b296c9a377b55ee555368759d2625c?s=512&d=mm&r=g"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/194712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_speaker"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10504913"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194712"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/194712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194945,"href":"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/194712\/revisions\/194945"}],"sessions":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/194799?_embed=1&context=view"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_speaker_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker_group?post=194712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}