Thread: How can we decrease LOAD TIME of the website.

Dear All

Kindly let me know that how can we decrease load time of the websites if it takes 5 to 6 seconds.

the best way is to compress images to JPG 72dpi using photoshop . .

Having less memory intensive images and flash should help

Maybe it's your hosting?

Hi,

There are few ways through which you can decrease the load time of the web page. Make few changes in the CSS like decreasing the empty space and removing the unwanted comments. The more less space codes would occupy the more it would increase the load speed.

The only thing I know of is to clear out your cookies. I have heard that you can also decreace load time by finding registery cleaners as well. Macs are also much faster.

Don't have too many flashy advertising banners on your site. Compress the file size of your images, especially if they are in .png format. Avoid unecessary paragraph/space breaks.

First you need to find out the cause of your page being slow.
Usually there only few suspects for site being slow.

1. Server side
Scripts (php, perl, .net...), Database (mysql, sybase... )

2. Client side
Javascript

3. Amount of data being transfered
large images, big html page, tons of CSS styles loaded at once


There are techniques to measure each of these. There are also certain plugins for firefox and other browsers that can tell you how long it take for javascript to load , graphics, css. One of them is called firebug. It will tell you the load time of your graphics, css , js ... etc

It will not tell you how long your server took to respond , for that you will need to implement some timing code in your scripts.

use yslow addon of firefox and get what is causing problem. some useful tips are
1. use only one css file
2. compress image in jpg format
3. use single js file

what is the size of your files?

You should decrease the size. It can be done by removing flashes from the page. Use of images also increase the load. So use when it must, otherwise use simple text for links. Some other factors are also responsible.

hostentic nailed a number of solutions for this. Many times slowdowns are out of the control of the user and are actually the fault of the hosting provider (many hosting providers overload their machines in order to maximize profits).

Some extra things to enable on your site/hosting account - enable gzip compression.
Talk to your hosting company, they may be noticing server slowdowns and can assist.
If your site is MySQL based, verify that you don't have huge tables that could be slowing things down.
If you are calling images from an outside source, you'll want to check those locations too (this includes SSL logos and graphics)

Also, how big is your website/page? The larger the page, the slower the display. Too often I've seen users with a home page in excess of 1MB. MOST homepages should be 100-200KB MAXIMUM. inside pages can take longer, but the home page needs to be fast as that's where all the spiders hit.

Few ways you can do it, use external style sheets, that way the html get read faster hence loading ur page faster, and rather then compress all ur images which is a pain, try using css sprites which are awesome and can speed ur page dramatically.

Don't forget about Content Delivery Networks also. www.maxcdn.com is a great CDN at a very reasonable fee. Pretty much a set it and forget it type of CDN too as they pull all the information from your site as your site updates. You don't need to publish to their network, it automatically grabs when it needs data.