Is your website performing slowly?
Want to speed it up?

The speed of your website is an important factor which decides the success rate of your business. If your website does not load quickly, it will be quite annoying for your visitors. We all are aware that its takes no more than 7 seconds for a visitor to decide whether to stay on a particular site or not. You could lose your precious customers because of the slowness of your website. Well, here are some valuable tips for increasing the speed of your website.

»  It’s advisable to take the help of CSS Sprites. Now, it is the CSS property of sprites wherein they combine miscellaneous images to form a single image or master image which helps in page comprising of images. With this, a website can load faster. CSS Sprites is a highly developed technique used for reducing the load of your server.

»  Next, you can utilize the “Save for the web” feature for optimizing images. This feature is included in an image editing software. Images take a considerable amount of time in loading which makes your website slower to load. So, never forget to use this option. You can also go for the online image optimizer. It is also recommended to use the right format for your images. For instance, JPEG format is suitable for photographs or true-colour images. The GIF format should be used with flat-color images like logos or buttons. And, PNG works very similar to GIF but it supports more colors.

»  Make sure to reduce the HTTP Requests to speed up your website. While a web pages opens, its objects namely the scripts, images and lines have got to have a round trip of the server. This definitely adds to the loading time of your website. Always remember to reduce the objects and combine CSS files and scripts together.

»  In order to speed up your site, you can use a slash on your links. Now, what happens here is that when a user opens a link on the form “http://www.domain.com/about” the server will need to figure what kind of file or page is contained on that address. In case you include a slash (/) at the end of the link the server will already know that this is a directory page, which helps cut down the load time.

»  Lastly, one can also take the help of height and width tags. Always add these to your image codes. These will ensure that the browser knows the size of the image before loading it. So, what’s does this imply? Well, the browser will reserve a spot for the images while loading the rest of the page, speeding up the whole process in turn.

Websites ought to load quickly. This is very important for the success of your website. Just follow these simple rules and see the wonders in your website.

Well, consult us at Biztech Consultancy. We are a leading web development company specializing in offering a variety of web designing & development solutions. Our core services include – web designing, web development, image optimization, website maintenance, website support & optimization services.