Hackathon live. Accelerate mobile sites

In January, the pages of the main blog of webmasters Google announced that since July 2018, the page loading speed will become a ranking signal in the mobile search. Research confirms the importance of fast loading of mobile versions of the site not only for search, but also for business as a whole: when loading speed is slowed from 1 to 7 seconds, the bounce rate increases by 113%, the conversion rate drops by 95% as the number of items on the page increases. 400 to 6000.

Learn how to optimize the download speed of the site will be February 14 at the first in Russia online hackathon "Accelerate mobile sites." Specialists and engineers at Google will tell you what critical resources should be optimized in the first place, demonstrate how this can be done on a real site, and answer all your questions. To participate in the hackathon, you must register .

This video seminar will be useful to anyone who wants to learn how to measure the speed of the site, identify the main problems of slow downloads and find ways to solve them. In the course of the live broadcast from the European headquarters of Google in Dublin, the company's experts will discuss a wide range of problems that may appear on web pages in the case of a slow connection and when displayed on mobile devices.

You can ask questions during the Q & A section in the comments to the broadcast.

Topics for the upcoming broadcast:

1. What tool to measure speed to use?

Mobile optimization can seem like a daunting task, especially when faced with a lot of public services that give their own recommendations. TestMySite, PageSpeed ​​Insights, Webpagetest, Lighthouse, Chrome Development Tools - all provide analysis and tips for improving site performance, but differ in details. In this seminar we will try to discuss the features of each of the tools and examples of their use.

2. Practical optimization tips

Together with a Google specialist, we take a look at the test site and measure its download speed using the WebPageTest tool. For example, three potential problems of slow site performance on mobile devices will be taken:

• transition from HTTP / 1.1 to HTTP / 2
• image optimization
• working with critical JavaScript and CSS resources

In 30 minutes you will see how you can visually improve the site code, re-measure the speed and compare the time before and after the changes.

The broadcast is scheduled for Wednesday, February 14, at 15:00 Moscow time.

Please register to get an exact link to the mail the day before the broadcast.