Monday, June 15, 2015

How To Improve Page Load Speed

1. Optimize Your Images

First and foremost, you’ll need to optimize all of the images presented on your webpage to have any chance of speeding up your website. Remove the extra comments, unnecessary space, and useless colors from the source of your images. Save your images in JPEG format because it uses the least capacity while still maintaining picture-perfect quality. In Photoshop, you can use CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+S to automatically optimize and save images at the smallest possible size.
For your WordPress website, I advise using the smush.it plug-in to optimize your website’s pictures automatically and receive a speed boost. If you have any images that are saved in PNG format, you can also use tinypng for optimizing the image and improving image quality too.
2. Enable GZip Compression
GZip compression may sound complicated, but it’s simply a large term used for reducing the size of the HTTP response to improve response time. Since this allows your site to send a GZip file instead of an HTML file to the browser, you’ll reduce page wait time and loading time.   

3. Minify CSS 
To minify the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) simply means to make the CSS smaller in size by removing any extra white space. Look out for any unnecessary codes that are slowing down your speed time too. Minify your CSS and use the new code for loading your site much more swiftly. No matter whether you use your CSS inlined, combined, or with external files, smaller will always be better. 

4. Minify HTML & Javascript 
Along the same lines, you should minify HTML and Javascript for making your pages load considerably faster. This will also provide a better user experience.

 5. Avoid Redirects
 Redirection is an overwhelming sense of irritation for website visitors. It’s similar to going to a friend’s house and then finding out your friend has moved to another house three blocks away. Being redirected to other web pages consumes extra time, reduces your loading speed, and makes your users groan in frustration. So, I always advise that you avoid redirects on any page of your website unless you don’t have another choice.