Improve Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) and Speed up your WordPress Website

20/04/2023 33 min
Improve Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) and Speed up your WordPress Website

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Today Steffen and Dominik dive deep into the page speed factor of the Largest Contentful Paint (LCP). You'll learn how to optimize your website to achieve a fast LCP and which strategies work for flexible components. But with all the details, don't forget the basics of page speed optimization...Highlights00:00 Intro00:10 What is LCP?02:56 Typical largest elements05:51 Reach fast LCP09:03 How to handle video?13:27 New Blackhat PageSpeed technique?14:24 How to optimize LCP?17:19 Strategies for flexible components22:20 Font display strategy28:42 First do the basics32:52 Simplicity over ComplexityLinksOptimize LCP: https://web.dev/optimize-lcp/Flynt Starter Theme: https://flyntwp.com/lazysizes: https://github.com/aFarkas/lazysizesfetchpriority="high": https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2023/01/optimizing-image-element-lcp/Best practices for fonts: https://web.dev/font-best-practices/LCP font optimization: https://pixelpoint.io/blog/advanced-web-font-optimization-techniques/Fontaine (font fallback generator): https://github.com/danielroe/fontaineFontpie (font fallback generator): https://github.com/pixel-point/fontpieMore from BleechBlog Posts (WordPress Development)Flynt (WordPress Starter Theme)VRTs (Visual Tests for WordPress)Siegfried, deploy! (YouTube Channel)