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In this 28‑minute talk Jono Alderson argues that website performance is a critical business differentiator and that most major brands have painfully slow sites despite decades of research. He presents evidence from Wired, Google, Pingdom and other studies showing how even sub‑second delays hurt conversion, SEO and revenue. Alderson introduces Google’s Core Web Vitals as universal, comparable metrics that tie speed to user experience, SEO rankings and revenue, and explains how they also reveal an organization’s technical maturity and resource allocation. He then outlines why many companies fail to improve – either they don’t know what they don’t know or they lack the resources and processes to maintain performance. To solve this, Alderson proposes a pragmatic four‑pillar stack that can be outsourced: WordPress as a universal API‑based CMS foundation, AMP as a component library and performance framework, an SEO/plugin ecosystem (e.g., Yoast) for schema and integrations, and Cloudflare for CDN, security and automatic optimizations. By adopting these pre‑built, continuously‑improved tools, companies can achieve and sustain a “perfect” website without endless internal effort. The talk concludes with a strategic call to stop trying to perfect sites in‑house and instead leverage the ecosystem to gain competitive advantage through speed, quality, and better user experience.

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