The “Holy Grail” WordPress Site Speed Course

The Holy Grail course is closed to new students

Enrollment has closed. The lessons are still listed below so you can see what the course covered.

What replaced it is the Site Speed Pack: skills that have your AI coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or Gemini CLI) measure your WordPress site, speed it up one change at a time, and prove the phone menu, forms and checkout still work.

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Course Instructor

Jon Phillips Your Instructor

Holy Grail Beginnings

Course Intro: Setting Expectations for Site Speed

Affiliate Disclaimer

Core Web Vitals: “Explain it Like I’m 5”

How to Set Up Cloudflare’s Nameservers for Your Domain + DNS Propagation

Cloudflare: General Settings

How to Use Cloudflare FREE Page Rules to Cache Your Website on the Edge

Cloudflare Browser Insights + Notes on WP Rocket 3.9.0.5+

Optimal Settings for WP Rocket

Preloading Critical Assets w/ Perfmatters

WP Rocket: Delaying JavaScript in version 3.9.0.5+

Baselining Performance Before and After Optimizing Your Site

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Why Did You Join This Course? (Survey)

How to Properly Speed Test a Website

How to Interpret Speed Test Results and Read a Waterfall Chart

Asset Comparison – Blank WordPress Installation, Divi, Kadence, and GeneratePress

Comparing a “Bloated” vs. Lightweight Form Plugin – Perfmatters Script Manager

JavaScript Animations vs. CSS Effects

The “Holy Grail” Tech Stack

Why I Like Managed Hosting

Option: Disable WP Rocket’s Page Caching

Perfmatters Basic Settings (Toggles)

Using Perfmatters Script Manager to Reduce Requests

Perfmatters Locally Hosted Google Fonts

How to Make Internal Page Navigation Lightning Fast (load links in viewport, on hover, or timeout)

Post-Course Feedback (Survey)

Bonus #1: Image Optimization and Asset Delivery for WordPress

Best Practices for Image Optimization BEFORE Uploading to WordPress

EWWW Image Optimizer – My new favorite image optimization plugin for compression, resizing, WebP conversion, and CDN delivery