Tips on How to Speed Up Your Blog Sit
Bloggers should pay attention to how their sites are doing in terms of the loading time. It is very important to exert effort in speeding up the loading time of their sites to avoid losing visitors due to sloth- like downloading of your blogs.
To make sure that the blog site is running fast, there are several tips to follow. Bloggers can explore these tips to improve the loading time. Here are some tips to speed up the blog:
Tip#1: Speeding up a website might include working with the images you include in the site. Optimize the images you post in your blogs. Keep in mind that you are using “Save for the web” feature which you might be using on an image editing software. Images which are too large might be the cost of the slow loading time of a blog site.
Tip#2: After you have optimized your images, you start to check on image formats. It is very important that you choose the correct format for your blog. JPEG format is appropriate for images and photos on true-color images.Logos and buttons used for a blog site with flat color should be in the GIF Format. PNG pictures works similar with GIF but it can include more colors for the pics.
Tip#3: Always include a slash sign on your links. When opening a link on the form of http://www.domain.com/category “, the server will have to figure out what kind of page or file is included on that address. At the end of the link, you should include a slash (/) so he server might know that this is a directory page. In this way, you are reducing the loading time of your blog site.
Tip #4: If you want to pump up the loading time of your site, always optimize your CSS. A lot of websites are well designed with CSS today. Bloggers should make sure that the aggregates and clean up your CSS. You can use online tools to make sure that you will merge similar selectors. You can even start removing useless properties and get rid off of the whitespaces in your codes.
Tip#5: You can augment your loading time for your site by reduction of the HTTP requests. When you are opening a page every object ( scripts, images and lines) are requiring a round trip on the server. The latency can add the loading time for your site. Reduce the number of objects to combine your CSS files and scripts together this can help in decreasing the loading time for your site.
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Speed is really important for two reasons….the first one is that the googlebots like quick….a lot….LOL!
The second reason is that our audience is ADD, and if your offering doesn’t load quick enough, they are likely to navigate away from all your hard work.
small compressed jpegs have given me the fastest page load times.