Quick Links
- Slidedeck
- Slidedeck PDF document with speaker notes
- Resource List
- Actual Audit Numbers
Slidedeck for “100+ Site Audits: A Peek Into the Most Common Mistakes“
Presented to WordCamp Santa Clarita July 17-18, 2021.
View a PDF handout with slides and speaker notes.
Resources – Free Giveaway
Free website Audit
Resources – Accessibility
Alt Text Tool Plugin
The alt text tool plugin is a helpful tool available on the WordPress plugin repository that pulls a .csv list of all images including the alt text so you can see and improve your alt text all in one location.
The A11y Project
Adding Images to Websites Blog Post
Accessibility Insights for Web
WebAim
Resources – Legal
Privacy Policy Tracker - United States
This resource link will give you the most up-to-date information on privacy policy laws and federally introduced legislation thanks to our friends at Termageddon.
Termageddon Privacy Policy Service
Resources – Performance and Security
Image Compression Resources
PLUGINS
- Smush – A WordPress plugin designed to help compress images.
- Imagify – Another plugin that compresses images and because it runs in the background, it will compress images as they are added to the site. There is both a free plan that has limits and a paid plan with unlimited compression.
- Imsanity is a free plugin on the WordPress repository that allows the WordPress site administrator to set a limit for the maximum size of all images uploaded. This plugin will set the limit for the full-size image as determined by the WordPress standard image sizes.
WEB-BASED
- Tinypng – A website that you can use to compress images prior to uploading to your site.
- Cloudinary – A medial management tool that stores and compresses images and acts as a CDN (Content Delivery Network).
- Compressor.io is another website tool that can be used to compress images.
Quality Website Hosting
Good WordPress managed hosting options include Pagely, Liquid Web, WPEngine , Siteground. GoDaddy and Bluehost also have managed WordPress hosting options in addition to their traditional hosting platforms.
Jetpack Boost
Cloudflare
Cloudflare is a global network designed to make everything you connect to the Internet secure, private, fast, and reliable. We use Cloudflare for our DNS service to improve speed and secure our websites.
Webpage Speed Tests
It is helpful to conduct page speed tests on your website. Webpage Test, Google Page Speed Insights, and GTMetrix are great tools to use.
Resources – SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
Yoast
Yoast is widely recognized as one of the leading experts regarding SEO. This post on focus keywords is excellent for helping you understand keywords. This post on meta-descriptions is also a must-read.
Yoast SEO Plugin
Core Web Vitals
Neil Patel
Ubersuggest
Google Search Console
Search Console works hand in hand with Google Analytics and allows you to submit sitemaps, fix crawl issues, and has a new section that at some point in the future will show you the site’s performance on the core web vitals.
Resources – Misc.
Our Blog
What is a Website Audit
Meetups
Meetups, meetups, and more meetups. Since COVID, you can find them all over the country being hosted online. You can find many meetups available on Meetup.com. If you want to join your neighbors to the east, we have the AZ WordPress Meetup currently meeting through Zoom. We have a WooCommerce Meetup, a General Meetup and an Advanced Dev meetup. We’d love to have you.
The Numbers
The screenshots were captured below on Friday, July 16th, 2021 and represent the numbers as of this date.
