Performance & Maintenance: AI‑Assisted Workflows

Ensuring Website Uptime and Speed with Smart Maintenance and AI

Overview

This full-day course is for site stewards responsible for uptime and speed. Participants will master performance audits, caching, CDNs, and robust backup strategies. AI tools will be integrated to help automate monitoring alerts, suggest optimization tasks, and draft maintenance plans, ensuring websites remain fast, reliable, and secure.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the session, participants should be able to:

  • Measure website performance and identify bottlenecks.
  • Implement advanced caching, image optimization, and database cleanup techniques.
  • Develop a comprehensive backup strategy and utilize various backup tools.
  • Perform website restoration from backups and understand migration scenarios.
  • Utilize AI to automate monitoring, suggest optimizations, and draft maintenance plans.

Course Outline

  • M11: Website Performance Optimisation: Speeding Up WordPress
    • Why Speed Matters
    • Measuring Performance
    • Core Optimization Techniques (Caching, Image Optimization, DB Optimization, CSS/JS Optimization)
    • Content Delivery Network (CDN)
    • Premium All-in-One Solutions: FlyingPress
    • Activity & Testing Workflow
  • M13: WordPress Maintenance & Disaster Recovery
    • The Importance of Ongoing Maintenance
    • Update Management: Keeping Your Site Current
    • Backup Strategy: Your Safety Net
    • Backup Tools & Methods
    • Website Restoration
    • Website Migration
    • Developing Your Maintenance & Recovery Plan

Learning Methodologies Used

Live performance audits, hands-on backup and restoration exercises, creating maintenance plans, AI application for monitoring and reporting, case studies.

About This Course

Duration:

1 day

Level:

Intermediate to Advanced

Format:

In-Person or Virtual

HRDC-claimable:

Yes

Certificate

On request

Target Participants

Site stewards responsible for uptime and speed