One of the biggest pet peeves for anyone is a website that takes forever to load. Most times, when a visitor clicks to view your website, they leave in the first few seconds depending on the loading time.
Using Content Delivery Networks
When addressing the content of your website, optimising your JavaScript and working on the image sizes is crucial. The server location where a user accesses it is also worth checking. There are physical spaces outside the Internet that help with this.
A content delivery network (CDN) aims to improve the performance of a website. It identifies a server closest to anyone who wants to access the site. The best content delivery networks offer higher-speed storage. Along with these, tools for optimisation and security features to enhance website performances. Global network coverage and high availability content delivery networks are often the ones worth considering.
Smuch Your Images
Image resolution and their compression on a website have a huge impact on the speed and performance of your site. Uploading and displaying a large 30-megapixel photo that’s only going to be resized and shown as a thumbnail about 300 pixels wide is less effective than having smaller sized images with no clear loss in quality put up on your site.
WordPress has a great plugin called Smuch that cuts unnecessary data without compromising on the site of the speed. Taking advantage of this feature does wonders.
Reducing Your JavaScript and CSS
Improving page load times means attending to unnecessary site codes that reduce the efficiency of the site. Default codes in JavaScript and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are often ineffective. Look at the ample white spaces and unwanted code lines that you can be shortened to something useful.
Several online tools for non-CSS sites work to remove whitespaces, combine files and optimise common programming patterns to help with site speed and performance. In simple terms, the less code a server must go through, the faster the load time of a page.
Use Dedicated Hosting
Most first-time website owners, and in some cases, experts opt for using shared hosting services due to its cost-efficiency. However, have you ever thought about the impact of what sharing a server with others has on your website?
Website traffic varies from site to site meaning the speed and performance of your site may be compromised if another customer has an influx of traffic to their site than yours. Upgrading to a dedicated server is better as you’ll have it all to yourself.
Because you are hard at work and can’t always afford to get additional staff to improve your websites, getting help for professionals dedicated to website maintenance is a lifesaver. Get in touch with Tweak My Website and find all the ways we can assist you.
