This document provides tips to improve website loading speed in order to increase traffic. It recommends optimizing images by compressing file sizes and using appropriate formats. Other tips include minimizing HTTP requests, placing stylesheets and JavaScript files strategically, reducing cookie sizes, minifying code, avoiding unnecessary redirects, optimizing DNS lookups and DOM elements. The document offers for a free site health check from PixelCrayons to analyze loading speed and suggest improvements. Contact details are provided to get help optimizing a website for faster loading.
2. Content
● Introduction
● How will this help to increase Traffic?
● Tips to easily improve the site load speed.
● How we can help you?
● Contact details
3. Introduction
Heavy Image sites generally take time to load which will increase
the bounce rate. A faster website would always attract more
users and reduce their chances of moving on to an alternative,
quickly. Adding more components to your site, add to your
SEO endeavors, yet in the same time, it lessens your site
speed as these activities utilize a lot of memory on the site.
4. How This Will Help To Increase Traffic?
Page loading time is very important part of any website from user
experience. Page loading time is becoming a more important factor
when it comes to search engine rankings.
5. Tips To Improve Site Load Speed
Getting your website to load faster, is extremely important to get more and
repeat visitors. Using the right techniques is all that is required. The
process is common for all database driven websites. You can do several
test runs for your database and find where the errors are and fix them as
desired.
Check out the suggestions that need to be implemented in order to Increase
traffic and Improve site speed:
6. 1. Image Optimization
● Don’t add heavier sized Images in a web page
● Compress the Images and should be in PNG, GIF or JPG format.
● Avoid using text in the form of an Image as this will reduce site speed.
● Use text styles in the form of CSS.
7. 2. Used Compressed Files
● Reducing size of heavy files, this will help in saving bandwidth and
reduce loading time.
● You can use a G-Zip compressor to reduce the size of files.
8. 3. Avoid HTTP Requests
● One of the most important advantages of iBeacon is automation.
● As soon as people having your mobile app in their smartphones enter
your store, the doors would be automatically opened for them through
iBeacon.
● You could also use this technology as an advertising medium.
● For example, as soon as the person crosses a particular checkpoint, he
could be greeted about all the recent products in your store.
9. 4. Placement of Stylesheets and Javascript Files
● Make sure stylesheets should be at the top of the document.
● This enables the page components to open progressively in a document.
● Place Javascript files at the end of the document for better site speed.
● Provide an appealing look to the website.
10. 5. Reducing The Size Of Cookies
This is an another aspect of site load speed.
Reducing the size of cookies on the site reduces the amount of data
transferred between pages.
Remove unnecessary cookies and set an expires date.
11. 6. Minify JS and CSS and CMS Updation
Update CMS on regular basis as this will help improve the site speed.
Use of Minification process to remove the characters which are insignificant.
12. 7. Optimize the Code
Remove unnecessary HTML and CSS elements from the site.
Site Code should be optimized properly for better load speed.
Avoid unnecessary declarations or comments.
13. 8. Avoid Redirects
Redirects should be minimal because multiple redirects on a site can
add to the number of HTTP requests.
Use of better image formats like JPG, PNG for better site speed.
14. 9. Optimize DNS Lookups and DOM Elements
Limited the number of hostnames elements like URL, images and
script files.
Ensure that markups are cleaned up for all the unnecessary <div>
elements.
Use of Grids.css,fonts.css for improving the load speed of site.
15. How we can help ?
Getting your website to load faster, is extremely important to get more
and repeat visitors. Using the right techniques is all that is required.
At PixelCrayons, we provide a free health check for your site
ensuring you get the precise information, to improve the
performance of your website.
16. Reach Us At :-
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