Carrying out the practice of celebrating the speed maestros, Cloudways is back with the biggest Hackathon event, i.e., The WooCommerce Speed Up Challenge 2022. We are welcoming performance enthusiasts to showcase their optimization skills and get rewarded BIG for their efforts.
If you think you have what it takes to expedite a slow WooCommerce site into an optimized store that unleashes relentless online growth, now’s your chance to prove yourself.
So let’s get started.
How to Join the WooCommerce Speed Up Challenge
Anyone can join The WooCommerce Speed Up Challenge 2022 for FREE and try their luck.
The challenge is simple: We’ll create the slowest WooCommerce store, and you will have to improve its load time.
Our judges will evaluate each submission carefully, and the participant with the fastest stores will win!
What Will I Win?
We are going generous with the prizes this season and rewarding not one but ten best speed optimizers. So if you win, you will get to brag about being a web optimization guru, but you get away with exciting prizes.
Here’s what we’re giving to our winners:
1st Place:
- $500 hosting credits
- $500 Amazon cards
- $800 worth of gadgets
- Steel Series Gaming Bundle
- High-Res Monitor
- Alexa
- Drone
2nd Place:
- $300 hosting credits
- $300 Amazon cards
- $500 worth of gadgets:
- Steel Series Gaming Bundle
- Alexa
- Drone
3rd Place:
- $200 hosting credits
- $200 Amazon cards
- $300 worth of gadgets:
- Steel Series Gaming Bundle
- Alexa
But it doesn’t end there. Even if you don’t want to participate yourself, you can still win our exciting prizes.
How? By referring your friends.
Yes, we are rewarding our top referrers as well in two ways:
Referral leaderboard
Refer as many friends as you can to top our referral leaderboard, and we’ll reward the top 10 referrals with the following rewards:
- $50 worth of hosting credits
- $50 Amazon cards
- Cloudways T-shirt
Winning referrals
If any of your referrals manage to make it to the top 3; we’ll also reward you with prizes, including:
- $100 worth of hosting credits
- $100 Amazon cards
- Swag box
Rules and Regulations
We know you can’t wait to participate in the challenge, but first, we encourage you to carefully go through the rules.
- Only the entries sent from the official sign-up form will be entertained.
- Send your GTmetrix results in a Word Document with the testing link; also include a summary of your optimization steps.
- We will contact the shortlisted participants on the 15th of November, 2022, via email.
- Changing or altering the theme’s files is restricted. However, you can remove, add, or deactivate the plugins, ensuring the site’s functionality and UI remain intact.
- Removing the number of products and product images is also restricted.
Store Specifications
To ensure the toughness of this challenge, our developers will create a store with the slowest load time possible with these specifications:
- PHP version 7.4
- WordPress version 6.0
- MariaDB version 10.4
- HTTP/2 Enabled
- PHP FPM Running
- 2000+ products
- 20+ plugins
Cheat Sheet
We want the most deserving performance enthusiasts to win, but here are some quick refreshers to help you revisit your speed optimization techniques.
23 Tips to Speed up WordPress Site for Better Performance – A Detailed Guide
PHP 5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, and 8.0: Performance Benchmarks for WordPress
What Makes Cloudways the Fastest WordPress Hosting – Testing & Performance Results
How to Use GTmetrix on WordPress And Improve Your Site Speed
Let’s End the Sluggishness
Unleash your inner Flash and speed up our WooCommerce store to prove yourself in the biggest hackathon this holiday season and, of course, win the community’s praises, swag, and exciting prizes.
Also, join our Slack channel exclusively created for the Hackathon event for prompt communication and connecting with other participants and jury members.
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Sarim Javaid
Sarim Javaid is a Digital Content Producer at Cloudways. He has a habit of penning down his random thoughts and giving words and meaning to the clutter of ideas colliding inside his mind. His obsession with Google and his curious mind add to his research-based writing. Other than that, he’s a music and art admirer and an overly-excited person.
