The first step to making sure the web sites we build are not a burden on our visitors or customers is understanding how big the pages are while we are developing them. If we can become more aware of how our feature, design, and development decisions impact the performance of the website, we can address problems before they impact the site’s user experience.
This course is all about the basics of testing your site while you design and develop. We will cover everything you need to know to get started with reliable and accurate performance testing of your projects.
I am the creator of CraftQuest, a web developer, and former software team manager. I spend most of my time improving CraftQuest with code and courses. When I'm not in front of the computer, I spend my time with my family, and running on the roads and trails of Austin, TX.
Web Performance Testing is made up of the following videos:
In this course we'll learn that we can ditch var_dump() and dd() and use an easier way to debug problems in our code.
Why do we call software issues "bugs", anyway? Andrew quizzes Ryan on the origin of the term.
Andrew drops some trivia in the livestream.
Andrew and Ryan answer questions about Craft license servers, how to build a custom module, and what debugging is.
Ryan steps through a few options for implementing subscription trials in Craft Commerce.
Andrew demonstrates how he uses an extended template to set global variables right in Twig. No PHP required!
Ryan and Andrew answer the viewer question on hosting.
Ryan and Andrew answer questions about where to start with front-end tooling, what makes a good Craft CMS hosting provider, and how to create a Twig global variable in Twig.