Tips To Speed Up Your Site loading
An important factor for your website visitors is the load time of your websites. Most people will just skip a site altogether if it fails to load within a couple of seconds.
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Here are simple yet effective ways to help you make sure that your website is running fast.
Ways to Speed Up Your Site:
Optimize Your CSS - Most websites are designed with CSS nowadays. You should make sure to aggregate and clean your CSS. Clean CSS is an online tool that will merge similar selectors, remove useless properties and remove the whitespace from your code.
Optimize Images - Remember to always use the “Save for the web” feature included on image editing software. Images represent the heavier load on virtually any website so make sure you are optimizing them.
Image Formats - Apart from optimizing images it is important that you choose the right format. JPEG format is suitable for photographs or true-color images. The GIF format should be used with flat-color images like logos or buttons. PNG works very similar to GIF but it supports more colors.
Use the Height and Width Tags - Don’t forget to add the height and width tags on image codes. Those tags will make sure that the browser knows the size of the image before loading it. The result is that it will reserve a spot for the images while loading the rest of the page, speeding up the whole process.
Use a Slash on Your Links - When a user opens a link on the form “http://www.domain.com/about” the server will need to figure what kind of file or page is contained on that address. If you include a slash (/) at the end of the link the server will already know that this is a directory page, reducing the load time of the site.
Reduce the HTTP Requests - When opening a web page every object (images, scripts and the line) will require a round trip to the server. This latency can add several seconds to the load time of your site. Make sure to reduce the number of objects and to combine CSS files and scripts together.
If you have any more tips to speed up the loading of a site, fell free to post in a comment.
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You must also keep the file size of you web site below 150kb. This will enable the faster downloading and access of users to your site.
Don’t block out applications and boxes. If your HTML link is broken, the page may not be found and tendency of the users to choose another site increases. Your web site should be functional, so make the link and pages accessible to the search engines.
Thanks for the more tips
I never thought about using the slash for links, this will help a lot. I have been getting long load times due to some flash on my site, now google may even factor this into ppc landing page optimization so this is important