Blog Post for a software company
2/9/2016
Blog Post
Fathima
7 Ways to Improve Your Website Speed
{QUOTE} Page abandonment increases with every second longer it takes for your website to
load {QUOTE}
You just created the sleekest website on WordPress that has a super responsive user interface
and killer content, but you’re not getting any conversions! It all boils down to page load time at
the end of the day. No matter how wonderfully you craft your website, if your page loads
slowly, your visitor will navigate away. They’ll navigate to an uglier website with terrible
content but that loads quicker. You don’t want that.
Page abandonment increases with every second longer it takes your website to load. All hope is
not lost, however. With just a few simple and easy to implement ideas, take your tortoise of a
webpage and give it a turbo boost.
First of all, test your website’s load time with this handy tool from Pingdom. Does your website
pass the 2-second rule? According to several surveys that a Kissmetric article researched, most
web users look for a website that loads within 2 seconds. The longest they’ll wait is 3 seconds!
Any longer than that and your page needs heavy optimizing.
So you’ve run the test for your website and it’s pretty slow. What next? Check out these
scientifically-backed tips to improve your website’s speed.
1. Be lazy. Yes, implement LazyLoad into your website design to improve the amount of
time it takes for your site to load. With LazyLoad, you can cut back on the page load
time, and allow users to save their bandwidth. Win-win for all!
2. Have no face. If there are Gravatar fields on your website, disable them. Although your
logo will not appear in the Gravatar field, your page will load faster. Consider adding
your logo to other available image fields instead of the Gravatar one.
3. Plug it in. The WP-Optimize plugin allows you the freedom to optimize your database!
4. Cache them all. Want to be a cache-all master? With the W3 Total Cache, make caching
a breeze. This will let your website load at blazing hot speeds, and ultimately lead to
better conversions and leads.
5. Divide and conquer.Is your Javascript code and CSS in the same location as the rest of
the website content? Consider having them on external files.
6. No cookies for you. Want a winning idea for speeding up your website? Reduce or get
rid of cookies altogether. Your visitor will also be thankful that cookies don’t bog their
system down.
7. Send them away. Don’t redirect. When you redirect your visitor to another page, you’re
only adding an additional HTTP which makes your page load slower.
Go all out and give your visitor a faster website today!