How To Speed Up Your Website?

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A website is a portal through which you can capture your customer’s interest. A slacking and sluggish website is bound to bore the potential customers and stultify them from the website altogether.

If you think that a slow website is going to help boost your business to the maximum, trust me: It is not going to do that.

According to statistics, 40% of the people said that they expected a page-load time of 2 seconds or less and that they would usually end up leaving the website if the page-load time was 3 seconds or more. This means that if your website takes more than 2 seconds to load, you lose almost half of your customers even before they visit your website. 

Let’s talk about bounce rates with respect to the seconds it takes for a website to load:

SECONDS

BOUNCE RATE

2-3 seconds

The probability of bounce increases by 32%.

3-5 seconds

The probability of bounce increases by 90%.

5-6 seconds

The probability of bounce increases by 106%.

6-10 seconds

The probability of bounce increases by 123%.

Keeping this in mind, we need a fast website with a 2-second threshold for acceptability. We are going to discuss 6 hacks that could make a world of difference to your website speed.



 

  1. Minify and Merge:

Javascript, CSS and HTML are very crucial files as they are the key components to determine your website’s appearance. The number of requests that your website makes every time that a user visits it also adds up these files.

You can reduce the number of requests sent to your website by minifying or merging your files. This will consequentially decrease your file sizes and the number of files.

Removing superfluous formatting, whitespace and codes is an integral part of minifying as every redundant code adds up as the size of your page.


2. Compress your Images:

 Images are pretty much mandatory for any website. 21% of the web page’s weight is due to the images. Compressing these images to their smallest size without compromising on their quality goes a long way to speed up your website.

      Websites with a lot of images can be bulky and slow, we need to maintain them by compressing the images. This will help in decreasing the downloading time as well.


3. Ponder on your Plug-Ins: 

It is crucial to take caution over plug-ins. All plug-ins have the capability to affect the loading time of your websites.

It is important to consider well-built plug-ins that have a diminutive impact on the website. 

Even though they bring a lot of features and functionalities to your website, it can make your website lag. Hence, it is important to consider plug-ins that won’t hinder the speed of your website.


4. Use a CDN:

You can use a CDN (Content Delivery Network) to diverge the requests of traffic so that the web page doesn’t lag.

When you are using only one server, all the requests of the traffic is sent to one place. CDN  helps to minimize the delay in loading the content of the web page.

With a CDN, you can cache your site to the widespread network of servers which helps the requests to be routed to the closest server.

It helps to reduce the distance between the users and the servers.


5. Enable Browser Caching:

Browser caching is an important step which speeds up a website. Your visitors will save a cached version of your website in the browser if you enable browser caching.

Even if your internet connection is super fast, retrieving a file from the computer’s hard drive will be a lot less time consuming than retrieving it from a remote server.


6.Minimize HTTP Requests: 

The loading time of a web page includes the downloading time spent on different parts of the page like stylesheets, scripts and images.

For each element to download, an HTTP request is made, hence the more on-page components there are, the longer will it take to load.

Figure out how many HTTP requests your web page makes and then try to limit it to speed up your website.


Conclusion:

Figuring out how to speed up your website is a challenging task but it will overall increase your website’s performance.

These few tips can help your website run at a faster pace and ultimately reduce the bounce rate. 

For more queries regarding the speed of the website, you can contact us at contact@atompoint.com or visit our website www.atompoint.com.

Until next time.

Ciao.




  


 

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