There are Billions of websites on the information super highway.
Some quick ways of standing out from the crowd is with graphics, images, functionality and user experience.
It is increasingly becoming more important to focus on website speed and load time.
Google is putting more emphasis on the page load time factor and may even rank your competitor higher in search results just because your competitor loads a page a fraction of a second quicker than you do. There are of course many other factors like backlinks, domain authority and so on that influence this but more and more brands online are investing heavily on their website speed. Especially when they know, slow websites spell slow death; they kill conversions and increase bounce rates, not to mention the bad first impression.
Speed is everything in the digital world where people hate slow checkout counters in the supermarket, slow freeways and even slow cars or trucks blocking their way on the road.
Here are a few things to watch out for that could be slowing your site down:
- The images you are using on your site could be slowing your site down. Do you know the size of the image? Is it in MB or KB? What is the resolution of the placeholder for the image? If it is a thumbnail then what’s the point in uploading a high-resolution image that is a few MB’s in size?
- How long does your server take to load your website content? If your host is slow then regardless of what actions you take the root cause remains unaddressed.
- Investigate themes and plugins for speed. Remove what you don’t use and make sure plugins and themes are always up to date with the current version.
In Conclusion
Do a basic speed test of your website today and start with your home page.
For quick wins:
1. Use a free CDN – CloudFlare
2. Caching plugin – W3 Total Cache
3. Image compress plugin
Speed matters and it certainly can get you more traffic and help with improved conversions on your site.
Hi Cent,
It was very informative and helpful post.
Today the performance of a Website is greatly affected by its speed and efficiency.
It was very attractive and well delivered info graphics emphasising the importance of website speed on its performance.
It is true that the reader expect the website to load early. If much delay i.e. – 5 seconds occurs in loading a website then they bounce back from the website. There are numerous websites on the internet on similar article, so why they will waste their time in loading the webpage?
The speed of websites is mostly affected due to its hosting service. Choosing a proper hosting service provider is essential as a Concerned Website Owner.
There are useful and easy tips you described can also be used to improve the speed of website.
It was amazing to know these.
Thanks for sharing with us.
With regards,
Saurav
Hi Saurav,
Glad you liked the infographic and the post. Happy to help.
Thanks, Cent
Website speed is highest priority in seo ranking, google or visitors always love speedy blogs/sites. It’s a very serious subject, just made easy with an attractive infographic post. Definitely, many bloggers will fix the drawbacks of they blogs. Thanks for sharing your knowledge cent !
Hi Charan,
Welcome back. Glad to be of help. Nice to hear you liked the infographic and the tips.
Thanks, Cent
Thanks for such a great post, really helpful tips for speed optimizing sites.
Thanks one again 🙂
Hi Aarti,
You are welcome and glad you liked the post.
Thanks, Cent
Thanks, it is always good to read tips for improving our blog & main site.
Hi Muruganandam,
I have landed your blog from Blokube and its good to see that you are doing an awesome job here. I love the way you made the infograph, it is really good.
Coming the post, website loading speed matters a lot in getting loyal readers and to please the search engines as well.
I aware that the fast loading site has several major benefits and thus we have crafted 2 exclusive blog posts for the WordPress speed optimization.
Using CDN is essential to speed up the WordPress site. Thanks for presenting this nice infograph for us.
Keep your good work.
Hi Sakthi,
Glad you liked the post and infographic. Appreciate your comment. Have a good one!
Cheers, Cent