subject: Tips On Speeding Up The Time It Takes To Load Your Site [print this page] Is your website taking too long to load? This is a problem that many people have. Your customers want instant gratification. If your page is taking too long to open then they are more than likely to get frustrated and leave. They are leaving without even seeing what you have to offer so you are losing potential customers.
When a customer is trying to view your webpage what they do not see is all that needs to be uploaded for the page to function. If you have a page that has lots of images and components to go through then it is going to slow down the time it takes your website to load. That is why one of the rules to designing a site is to keep it clean and simple. By not having a lot of images and videos to upload than your site will load much quicker.
Stop and really take a look at the layout of your webpage is there images there that you really do not need? You do not want a cluttered site that will also turn away potential customers. You want the focal point to be on what product you are offering. You do not want your clients to have to figure out what product you are offering. You want them to take one look at your website and instantly know.
If there images and things that you really do not need the best thing to do is to just get rid of them. Or move them to more relevant pages on your site. Having relevant content will also help with the SEO.
If you choose to go with a "richer" design then something that you can do is combined your files. For example if you turn your CSS into a single style sheet then that will also help to speed up the time it takes to upload your site. You can also use CSS if you choose to develop with tables. But if you do choose to use tables then do not nest your tables.
Something else that you can use to help speed up your site is to use external scripts. By using the some of the same JavaScript on each of your pages will help speed things up as well. The reason for that is because then the customers' computer already has some of the code cached so it doesn't need to upload something different every time.
