Fast Website
January 11, 2012
Making your website super fast loading is not that hard and a fast website will rank better in search engines and load quicker for visitors. How many times have you visited a website and waited for the website to load? That's my point there are so many sites to choose from that if your site is slow visitors will just move onto the next site.
The first and most important factor is to choose a website builder that is good like
Yola or
Site Build It, don't be cheap and try and save on this, your website is like renting a shop the cheaper the shop rental the less likely you are going to get customers the same applies to site builders. Yola and Site Build It are light to start with giving you the opportunity to build a fast website.
Low graphics This is where you start resize all images to the correct size before you load them on your website, don't load a large image and then use the image height and width tags to adjust the image size, as the image file will still be large rather upload your image to our
image resizer
and resize the image to the correct size you want. this tool will resize not only the image but the image file size making it smaller and quicker to load resulting in a faster website. Once you have done this take the same image and go to our
image optimizer and let the tool optimise your image this will remove unnecessary bytes from the image which means it optimizes the images without changing their look or visual quality and also make the file size smaller, helping you create a super fast website. Most important don't have to many images on one page.
Less Is best Don't add to many apps and scripts to your webpage, like the Facebook twitter buttons and like buttons etc. these all effect the page load time check each page you building with our
website speed test this is a great tool and tells you your webpage speed and lots more with this tool you will be able to see how to lighten the page as it shows you every item on your page with the loading time try if possible to get your web page to load in 20 seconds on 56k.
CSS Codes upload your CSS Codes to a file then upload the file to your site also combine all your CSS Codes for each web page into one file and load that file onto each page as once the file is loaded it stays in your computers cache and won't have to be loaded again as visitors look at other pages helping you to have a fast website.
White Space This is the space between your coding removing the unneeded tabs and spaces can help a lot! Doing this will take a lot of extra bytes off the total size of your page and will speed up load time quite a bit. Careful using automatic squishers, I find they often squish too much and makes it rather hard to edit later.
Keep Your Code Clean. When you write your codes try to use the CSS Code to control your text size, text colours etc. try not to use <font> </font> etc. Removing any of those excess tags will not only speed up your load time, but make you pages validate a lot cleaner.
Java Scripts Having more than one Java Script can also slow your web page down you might have to have a few that's fine all you have to do is combine them into one bigger script, all you do is use the
JSCompress
tool, it is an online javascript compressor that allows you to combine and compress and minify your javascript files. Compressed javascript files are ideal for production environments since they typically reduce the size of the file by 30-90%. Most of the filesize reduction is achieved by removing comments and extra whitespace characters that are not needed by web browsers or visitors.
Long Website Pages. By splitting up long pages into multiple pages you not only make the content show up faster and helps SEO as you will have more pages on your site with title, description and keyword tags, many visitors that see a very long scroll bar give up as there is to much in one place and takes to long to load. Remember take your time when you design your site think and always look at your site like a visitor, you might wait for the page to load because its your site but the visitor won't, build a fast website.
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