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2. Page speed is a measurement of how fast the
content on your page loads.
(the time it takes to fully display the content on
a specific page)
Page Speed
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3. Google has indicated site speed (and as a result, page speed) is one of the signals used
by its algorithm to rank pages. And research has shown that Google might be
specifically measuring time to first byte as when it considers page speed. In addition, a
slow page speed means that search engines can crawl fewer pages using their allocated
crawl budget, and this could negatively affect your indexation.
Page speed is also important to user experience. Pages with a longer load time tend to
have higher bounce rates and lower average time on page. Longer load times have also
been shown to negatively affect conversions.
From Google Blog https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2010/04/using-
site-speed-in-web-search-ranking.html
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4. By optimizing your code (including removing spaces,
commas, and other unnecessary characters), you can
dramatically increase your page speed. Also remove
code comments, formatting, and unused code.
Google recommends usingYUI Compressor for both
CSS and JavaScript.
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5. Reduce redirects
Each time a page
redirects to another
page, your visitor
faces additional time
waiting for the HTTP
request-response
cycle to complete.
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6. Why Opt for a Redirect?
The http redirect code can be used in following cases:
 The URL of a website is broken or not working.
 The website needs to be redirected to a new domain.
 A particular webpage or website is no more active.
 For testing a specific web page.
 Website design going through a renovation.
 Two existing websites are being merged into one.
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7. 301 Redirect
 A 301 redirect is a permanent redirect which moves a user or a crawler to a
new URL and tells that the content has moved permanently.
 301 redirect is used in a situation when you have changed domain of a
website or the website is launched in a new CMS and the URL structure has
been changed.The 301 redirect for old content moves to a new content
and tell the search engines that you have moved to a new page.
 With a permanent redirect, all your web pages, traffic value, page
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8. 302 Redirect
A 302 redirect is a temporary redirect which is used in a
case when you move to a new page for some time and will
come back to the original page later.This will tell crawlers
to continue indexing old page which has impact on SEO as
the search engine will continue ranking the old page.
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9. Leverage browser caching
Browsers cache a lot of information (stylesheets, images,
JavaScript files, and more) so that when a visitor comes back to
your site, the browser doesn't have to reload the entire page.
Use a tool like Slow to see if you already have an expiration date
set for your cache. Then set your "expires" header for how long
you want that information to be cached. In many cases, unless
your site design changes frequently, a year is a reasonable time
period
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10. Server response time is the
amount of time it takes for a
web server to respond to a
request from a browser. No
matter how optimized your
web pages are for speed, if
your server response time is
slow your pages will display
slow. Google says "You
should reduce your server
response time under200ms".
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11. Optimize images
 Be sure that your images are no larger than they need to be, that they are in the
right file format (PNGs are generally better for graphics with fewer than 16
colours while JPEGs are generally better for photographs) and that they are
compressed for the web.
 Use CSS sprites to create a template for images that you use frequently on your
site like buttons and icons. CSS sprites combine your images into one large
image that loads all at once (which means fewer HTTP requests) and then
display only the sections that you want to show.This means that you are saving
load time by not making users wait for multiple images to load.
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12. 15Tips
to Speed Up
Your
Website
a) Server
1. Leverage browser caching
2. Enable Keep-Alive
3. Enable gzip compression
4. Make landing page redirects cacheable
5. Use a CDN
b) Content elements
1. Minimize redirects
2. Remove query strings from static resources
3. Specify a character set
4. Minify your codes
5. Avoid bad requests
6.Serve resources from a consistent URL
7. Reduce DNS lookups
c) CSS, JS and Images
1. Specify image dimensions
2. Optimize images
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14. Contact us
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Near Marathahalli Bridge,
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