9 Ways for Improving Your Website Speed

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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
1. Moving JavaScript to the Bottom JavaScript should be moved out of the header section and to the bottom of page before tag because otherwise the rendering of the page will be blocked until the whole page is loaded. Due to this reason users see a blank page for first few seconds. 2. Keep CSS in The Header Section If CSS is moved at the bottom it will restrain the browser to work properly, allowing the text to jump before the whole page is loaded. Also,the display and format will be disturbed, clearly this will not add to the user experience. 3. Image Optimization Images are found to be one of the many factors that impacts your website speed therefore it is recommended to keep images lower than 100kb because high resolution images do not load quickly and takes more time to be processed. Image Format JPEG is seen as the best format for images because it is compressed and works best with images that contain many color pellets. They work best with large images such as photo grams and much more. PNG has a transparency percentage and should be used for small images such as images in menu, category etc. GIFs are best when dealing with animated images but make sure it is used when dealing with very small images like icons, flags etc. Image Size Image size is important factor too, so try to resize images according to your website width, it is recommended to resize your images below 2000px to increase load time but also consider the quality when doing so. A 5000px image, if downsized below 2000px will result in poor quality
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