How To Speed Up Loading Time On Your Website
In this article, we’ll be looking at
- How long visitors wait for your page to load
- How graphic images affect load time
- How to use images appropriately
- Animation and what effect it can have on page load and visitors
- Browser caches – what do they do?
What sort of timeframe would you allow when you’re waiting for a website to show on your screen? Most potential visitors will just bail out after 3 or 4 seconds! And we are talking about very patient potential customers here.
Of the many reasons that affect web page load time, images and graphics are some of the easiest to tackle. Below are tips and hints to help your page speed when designing a website.
Do not use too many images.
It is all nice for your website to look colourful and full of fancy images but it is no good when it takes 10 seconds to download each web page. Important – use images when needed on your web pages. This helps not only with reducing the amount of time your page takes to load over the web, but also ensures your visitors focus in on the content you want them to see more rapidly. The saying ‘less is more’ is often true.
Limit the amount of big pictures or graphics.
Larger images and graphics take up more memory to store, which means the load more slowly over any connection, and the slower the connection, the slower the load time. Using appropriately sized images and graphics is one of the foundation stones of building a solid website that loads rapidly.
Using static text and images.
Using animations certainly is an attention getter but sometimes it can be irritating when it becomes too much. Try to avoid over using moving or animated images and graphics – they slow down your page speed and can also be a distraction to your website visitors. Therefore, the advice here is to use animations moderately and not get carried away with it.
Utilise browser caches.
Think about using the same image or graphic for different areas of your site again and again, by linking to the same image from the same folder repeatedly instead of using more images – this will make your pages load faster. Telling the browswer cache what doesn’t need downloading makes your web pages load faster to your visitors screens.
There are many factors that contribute towards good website traffic, all the tips given above are just some of them, you may consider which is the most suitable for your website content and target audience. One important thing to remember is make your potential customers’ life easier, they will make you richer.
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