Thread: Few Tips To Make Your Site Load Faster

If your site is getting good number of visitors daily, let say 1000+, and you are feeling your site is loading slow then you should make a checklist and see if you have taken the right steps to make your site speed faster.

These tips are based on my personal experience of hosting my sites for more than 2 years.

1. Remove Unwanted Codes/Scripts
We all use different scripts like Google analytics, Quantcast Ranking, Compete and many other scripts to see the traffic and other stats of our site. But I would highly recommend to remove them and use ONLY 1 but reliable traffic analysis script because if for any reason those scripts do not work properly they get stuck and stop your page from loading. User will have no idea what is wrong but he will leave your site because it is not opening fully.

2. Do Not Host Images On Other Sites
The same rule applies for the images too. If you have many images on your site and you are hosting them on other free image hosting sites then you should immediately take them back to your own server. Because if the server where images are hosted is not responding then YOUR site will get affected and users will leave your site.

3. Always Optimize Images For Web
Even if you are hosting images on your own server you should optimize images for web. By optimizing it is ensured that the image file size is not very big but the least it can be. If you have many images (even on a dedicated server) but they are very big in size they will make the site loading speed slow.

4. Always Put Scripts In The Footer File
If for any reason the script does not load properly then it should not affect the whole site from loading, but it should affect only the footer area.

I hope you find these tips useful

If you want to share your own tips/tricks to make the site speed faster you are most welcome to make a comment below.

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Originally Posted by Jani

2. Do Not Host Images On Other Sites
The same rule applies for the images too. If you have many images on your site and you are hosting them on other free image hosting sites then you should immediately take them back to your own server. Because if the server where images are hosted is not responding then YOUR site will get affected and users will leave your site.

I would take this one step further and say try not to host *anything* on any other sites - scripts, css, images, anything at all.

Originally Posted by Jani

4. Always Put Scripts In The Footer File
If for any reason the script does not load properly then it should not affect the whole site from loading, but it should affect only the footer area.

My advice is to put it just before the </body> tag so that if the script fails your site still loads as it should (unless the script is dreadfully important to the display/functioning of your site).

Originally Posted by Jani

I hope you find these tips useful

Very

Another thing you can do is enable GZIP Compression on your site - which is easy if you have a cPanel host running Apache2+ -> Speeding Up Page Load Time, Apache mod_deflate and cPanel "Website Optimizer" - MDDHosting Forums

Nice tips,and what's more,choosing a reliable web hosting also matters.For example,when you're using a shared web hosing,
you feel it's too slow to visit your website.The hosting provider promised you that they would put at most 200 website on
their server,but the fact is they have put twice as the number.So pay more attention to it.

Great tips.

Here's a few tools to gauge your website speed.
Pingdom Tools
Web Page Analyzer

Or if you're using Firefox, you could try extensions such as Firebug and YSlow.

Tip to make your site load faster - Don't use too many flash and videos.

Very first thing you need to look about for a faster load speed, is a reliable and good web hosting company. If the whole server is under load, then never the site can load in a fast speed.

Then as you shared your tips, which were a few good ways to make the page load faster, and also, the scripts and codes, should always be in the end of the HTML codes just before the page ends at the </body> tag, because these script load failures can occur after the whole page has already loaded, if the code is at the end of the page.

If you are running a blog on wordpress, there are a few plugins using which you can delete the unwanted sql tables and the error log files which put unnecessary load on the server, slowing down the web pages.

great tips, also making sure the site validates is good
The W3C Markup Validation Service

Awesome post man! Google recently launched a new code for Analytics that will load your sites faster, since they got many complaints about slow websites after the code got installed.

The other points are nice though