6 Tips to Speed Up Your Website

Website load time was one of the most important factor affecting the usability, the most Internet users would only skip a site entirely if it fails to load in a few seconds. Below you will find a simple yet effective to ensure that your website run faster.

• Optimize Images

Always use "Save for web" feature that is included on the image editing software. Image is a heavy load on most all websites so be sure you optimizing them. Or you can also turn to an online image optimization.

•  Image Formats

In addition to optimizing picture is important that you choose the right format. JPEG format for photos or images match the original color. GIF format should be used with flat-color images like logos or buttons. PNG works very similar to GIF but it supports more colors.

•  Optimize Your CSS

Most websites today are designed with CSS. Be sure to design well and clean up your CSS. CleanCSS is an online tool that will incorporate the same voters, remove useless properties and remove the spaces from your code.

• Use a Slash on Your Links

When a user opens a link on the "http://www.domain.com/about" forms server will need to find a type of file or page located on the that address. If you include a forward slash (/) on the the end of the link server will already know that this is a page directory, reducing site load time.

• Use the Height and Width Tags

Many people forget to add a tag Height and Width on the the image code. The tag will ensure that the browser knows the size of the image before loading it. The result is that it will reserve a place for a picture while loading the rest of the page, to accelerate the entire process.

• Reduce the HTTP Requests

When opening a web page of each object (images, scripts and lines) will require a round trip to the server. This latency may add a few seconds load time of your site. Be sure to reduce the number of objects and to combine CSS files and scripts together.