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Ensure even isometric pressure (pushing with your firing side hand and puling with the support side hand). Do not squeeze the grip. A good Webber stance helps. tuck that support sight elbow in to the body, and extend the firing side hand - but do not lock the elbow on the firing side arm, it should be able to flex slightly to absorb recoil and assist in fast recovery for the next shot. After you first shot remember to "trap" the trigger and reset (don't slap the trigger and allow it to simply be released) - fire a shot, hold the trigger to the rear of the trigger guard and slowly let it go back until you hear a 'click', hold at this point then apply pressure again to fire the next shot - you will have no slack to take up and the 2nd round will be almost instantaneous. If you ever use you handgun in defense then this is essential - if the first round doesn't do the job you need to be able to quickly deliver subsequent rounds as quickly, but accurately, as possible. On a double action (and any handgun for that matter) you should start to take up the slack as you present to the target (not before you have 2 hands on the gun if your drawing from a holster, but certainly as you are pushing the handgun outwards and aquiring your front sight.
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These might work for shooting games but I don't think they transfer well to the real world and I'm not alone in this belief. The Weaver stance, not Webber, was developed for competition, not street use, and competition is where it belongs. It requires too much training and reliance on fine motor skills. In a high stress situation you lose control of your fine motor skills. You can't not lose them. It's your body's natural response as it wants to use the big muscles to either fight or flee. The only hope if you are relying on the Weaver is that you have practiced enough to have a high degree of muscle memory. This requires hours and hours of practice to achieve and is a perishable skill so it must be practiced weekly at a minimum. Much more frequently than all but a handful of people have time to do. The basic isosceles stance that uses large muscle groups is the one that works on the street because it's what you will do naturally. Research by the OSS during WWII proved the effectiveness of it. You work with your natural responses and leverage them to your advantage rather than try to fight them.
Rob Leatham and other top level shooters will also disagree about trying to find your triggers reset point. Either Leatham or Jarret has a protip at shooting USA's site talking about this. Trying to learn your gun's point of reset and judging that 1/4 -1/2" of movement under stress is not a great idea. This is another one of those ideas that might work in competition, although the guys at the top of the that game don't even do it, or at the range but in the real world, where a false reset could be fatal, you should let your finger go all the way forward and do the "trigger guard bounce". This is the only way to be certain that you have allowed the trigger to reset. It also means that you have no possibility of failure due to short stroking the trigger when moving from gun to gun.
The stuff that works well in the games for top level competitors doesn't always transfer to the average person for real world situations.