website performance
Website load time will be a big part of web page SEO with Google search starting real-time search. The faster Google can crawl and index your web page the higher your search engine ranking will be on Google. Google will rank content to show the freshest information on the search results page. Therefore, if your website load time is slow even if your content is better a site that loads faster will show up first.
Website Optimization for Faster Website Load Time
There are a number of ways to speed a website load time. Use CSS so browsers can cache your sites formatting and styling. Get rid of anything you do not really need (like widgets) remember less is more. Don’t overuse images they can really slow your site down. Make sure to use height, width, and alt attributes for images and optimize images to reduce their file size. See more on how to optimize images.
Optimize your server side scripting. If you do use PHP, JSP, or ASP.NET, make sure your server side code is optimized. This is especially true when using a database. You need to optimize both your database, and your code for speed.
Get dedicated web hosting. Poor quality web hosting usually occurs on a shared server. That means that many websites and website authors are using the same server. These websites compete for server resources, like bandwidth and memory. Heavy traffic on another website on a shared server can slow your page load time. A dedicated server is one where only your website occupies it. It is more costly, but you get dedicated resources.
Compress the size of your page. A web page is a file, that file must be transmitted from your server to the client computer over the internet. If you can decrease the size of the file, it will transmit faster. You can compress your pages by eliminating white space, remove any unnecessary HTML tags, and use relative urls instead of absolute urls.
Lose the Flash Animation. Flash animation is generally rendered on the client side, so it may not factor into the website load time. Flash animation tends to be slow, so get rid of it nobody waits around for the Flash animation load.
Take out unnecessary elements from the page. Elements rendering on the client may not affect the website load time. Remove any unnecessary graphics or images, these take a long time to load. Minimize JavaScript or CSS additional requests need to be made for these files.
Make sure and check you sites loading time as often as possible so you can catch errors before they hurt you.
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