History, Development and Raison D’etre For WPO (Video).
The ongoing and upcoming changes in the way people access the Internet, how Google ranks websites and the development of WordPress meant that a new, high performance template builder was required.
Watch the video to find out how and why WPOptimal was and is being developed.
Reference is made to “Dynamik” a previous WordPress Template by the same designer as WPOptimal.
Timeline
00:00 WordPress 5.5.
03:15 Jquery Migration Plugin from WordPress
05:00 Latest Google Developments
05:10 Mobile Friendly is not Mobile First
06:10 Google now ranks on the mobile version of your website
06:20 Google PageSpeed Insights. Go to PageSpeed Insights and insert test site then click on See Calculator, this takes you the Lighthouse Core Web Vitals Scoring page. Here you can see how your Performance Score is calculated.
07:00 Piety Hill website example
09:50 Core Web Vitals. Now an important ranking factor.
13:40 Google UX Performance Scoring Calculator
17:00 The New Mobile First Framework
17:30 What does it take to rank no1.
17:35 Unique, relevant, quality content.
18:25 Off-Site SEO, e.g. backlinks etc.
21:10 Mobile-First Structure
21:00 Effects of server speed and CDN
22:40Good User Experience (UX)
22:45 Optimized For Speed and Performance
23:50 WPOptimal