What methods would you apply for decreasing the loading time of a website?
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What methods would you apply for decreasing the loading time of a website?
SEO is the abbreviated form of Search Engine Optimization . SEO is the process of changing the position of a website or a web page in a search engine’s search results (Organic or Natural results).
Primarily two types of SEO are being sporting in practice:
1.Off-Page SEO and
2.On-Page SEO.
Off-Page SEO is the method of earning backlinks from other websites in order to enhance the ranking of the site. This method include various method of SEO including Blog posting, forum, article submission, Press release submission, classified and miscellaneous.
On-Page SEO is the process of optimizing a website which includes on-site work such as writing content, title, description, Alt tag, Meta tags as well as ensuring web-page’s code and design which can be indexed and crawled by search engines properly.
Optimize Images
Images are one of the most common bandwidth hogs on the web.
The first way to optimize your images is to scale them appropriately.
Many webmasters use huge images and then scale them down with CSS. What they don’t realize is that your browser still loads them at the full image size.
2. Browser Caching
Why make visitors download the same things every time they load a page?
Enabling browser caching lets you temporarily store some data on a visitors’ computer, so they don’t have to wait for it to load every time they visit your page.
3. Compression
Enabling compression is like putting your website into a zip file.
Compression can dramatically reduce your page’s size and thereby increase its speed. According to varvy, compression can knock off 50 - 70% from your HTML and CSS files! That’s a ton of data your visitor won’t have to download.
4. Optimize Your CSS
Your CSS loads before people see your site. The longer it takes for them to download your CSS, the longer they wait.
Optimized CSS means your files will download faster, giving your visitors quicker access to your pages.
Start by asking yourself, "do I use all of my CSS?" If not, get rid of the superfluous code in your files. Every little bit of wasted data can add up until your website’s snail-pace speed scares away your visitors.
5. Keep Your Scripts Below the Fold
Javascript files can load after the rest of your page, but if you put them all before your content—as many sites do—they will load before your content does.
This means your visitors must wait until your Javascript files load before they see your page, and we know how much they like waiting.
The simplest solution is to place your external Javascript files at the bottom of your page, just before the close of your body tag. Now more of your site can load before your scripts.
Yes, agrees with you, Sara James!