An important success factor for every website is speed. Visitors hate slow sites and will leave immediately. It doesn’t matter how good your products or services are. When your website is too slow, visitors will leave and won’t see your products anyway.
Conclusion: a quick website is crucial for your success.
I’ll give you some tips to speed up your website.
Reduce the number of pictures
The more pictures on your website the longer it takes to load your website. Your websites browser (internet explorer, firefox etc.) has to communicate with the server for each picture and all communication costs time.
Sometimes you can’t reduce the number of pictures because these pictures are too important for your site. In that case you can try to combine them to one big picture. Now the browser has to communicate with the server only once. Of course this will save some time.
It is also wise to use the same pictures on different pages. The browser can read these pictures out of their cache-memory.
Specify the size of your pictures
Make sure you’re always using height and width sizes in your HTML. This means that all IMG-tags must contain the WIDTH and HEIGHT attribute.
Otherwise your browser has to calculate the size. When you fill in the size your browser can immediately put a block on your site. Now your browser can continue with the other texts even before it has communicated with the server about the picture.
When you don’t fill in the height and width attributes your browser will first finish your picture. It should know the exact size of the picture before it knows the layout of your page.
The upper site of your page should be interesting
Visitors will read the upper site of your page when it is interesting. This means there is some time to build up your page. Your visitors are more willing to weight for the rest of your page.
Divide big charts
Pages which use one big chart will load much slower than when you divide them into smaller charts. This means it is wise to divide big charts into smaller charts.
Specify the size of your charts
Just like above, make sure you will use the height and width attributes. Now your browser can continue with the other texts even before it has communicated with the server about the content of the charts.
Check the widths of the cells!
Check all individual widths of all cells. Together these cells should never be wider than the width of your chart. Otherwise the browser won’t show your site properly.
How fast is your site?
It is important to know the speed of your site. The loading time shouldn’t be more than 6 seconds. Personally I leave when it takes longer than 4 seconds.
When you want to know the speed of your site just click this link: download speed tool.
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2 comments for this entry ↓
1 spostareduro // Mar 3, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Schweet suggestions. I have a real addiction to using images in my posts..As this can slow load time, it’s not so good. Although, once viewing them, it can bring much pleasure to the reader..Maybe I should be more particular about sizing etc..Thanks for the tips.
2 EDL flash & seo // Mar 10, 2008 at 8:01 pm
image size is important,but don’t forget flash objects, allifiate banners-adsense,javascripting and implimented stuff life free counters.
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