9 Ways for Improving Your Website Speed

Moving on to the second part that has an impact on your website’s traffic and SEO,
Bounce Rate.
Users leaving your website or web page in the first few seconds after being redirected is
what we call Bounce Rate. This has a direct connection with your website’s speed.
Many users don’t like being waited for the content to load, they get frustrated and will
leave your site instantly if this happens. Therefore, webmasters are really considering
website speed along with other important factors.
Research has shown that a delay of only 1 second results in:
A decrease in page views by 11%
Customer satisfaction falls by 16%
Conversion rate falls by 7%
Not only that but another research showed that 47% of the internet users really expect
to have website content loaded within first 2 seconds.
Bounce rate increases to a 40% if page load time takes more than 3 seconds.
Looking at these analytics, the website speed is pivotal but now the question stands is,
how can we improve the website speed? Let’s talk about it.
How to Improve Website Speed
Reducing your website’s HTTP request is a really important factor when dealing with
your website’s speed.
HTTP is Hypertext Transfer Protocol and it is the process that sends the request about
your web page to the server which is responded back by the server with the file that
could be your home page and other pages.These requests include all the details about
your webpage; images, Flash, Style sheets etc. therefore the more the page
components the more it takes to load the page.
You can improve the load time and minimize HTTP request by the following