Website Speed

[casper434]

What are the top 10 ways to reduce page loading times and speed up a website?

[naturalsociety]

Do you work to improve website page speed performance? If not, could you recommend any person or company that can get the job done?

Thanks,

-Mike

[naturalsociety]

Do you work to improve website page speed performance? If not, could you recommend any person or company that can get the job done?

Thanks,

-Mike

[casper434]

thanks Sanket

[SanketPatel]

At the bottom of the Site Performance page in Webmaster Tools is a link to the Google's Page Speed tool, available for Firefox or Chrome. So you can add that tool into your firefox and see you page speed factors. Over here i have recommend some key factors for improving page speed.

• Reduce the amount of java script parsed during the page load
• Eliminate  uncacheable landing page redirects.
• Optimize images that they are properly formatted and compressed image. Reducing the size of image files has been a good practice.
• Mention every style in CSS files.
• Your web server software can send information to web browsers to help them cache information and operate more efficiently.
• Monitor hosting environment and upgrade host when necessary.
• Utilizing good practices in your page coding and in managing your hosting setup are important components to your site's success.

[casper434]

great response. thanks Ian

[wrttnwrd]

1. Compress images.
2. Clean up your HTML code, removing inline javascript and CSS blocks that are more than 5 lines to external .js and .css files.
3. Install caching for whatever platform your own - WordPress, etc.
4. Get your site up and running on a CDN. It's easy, and it makes a huge difference.
5. Turn on GZIP compression on your server or on the CDN.
6. Set up expires headers in the far future for 'static' files, so that browsers cache stuff.
7. Optimize the way your site (assuming it uses e-commerce or some kind of CMS) accesses the database. Preferably, use some form of disk caching.
8. Set up code caching, as well: Most languages have a way to cache compiled versions of the scripts executed on the site. For example, in php you can use the PHP accelerator.
9. Make sure the database and site are on separate servers.
10. Make sure you've got a good outgoing 'pipe'.