JandBeyond - around the joomla! world in 72 hours - may 30th to june 1st, wiesbaden, germany

Research has shown that page load time can have a significant effect  on visitor retention rates, yet few web designers optimise their templates for performance.  Although a typical Joomla website has quite reasonable performance "out-of-the-box", there is much that can be done given an understanding of how template design affects performance.

In this session you will learn how to build Joomla templates to maximise performance across all current browsers.  You will also see how to use various tools to help you analyse and quantify performance.  These same techniques can be used to improve the performance of existing templates.  They are not difficult to apply and in a number of real-world deployments, page-load times have been reduced to a quarter of their pre-tuned levels for typical pages with a variety of image, CSS and JavaScript resources.

Some coding is required, but all example code will be made available for download after the conference, together with all the slides, so you can focus on the message without having to take notes during the session.