Tuesday, February 26, 2013

How To Improve Your Site Speed In 5 Steps



When someone browsing a certain site there are a major factor to stay in or leave forever, that is the site speed or the time of loading. So, everyone has a site works to make it with a high speed more than other sites, that site speed will drive to good optimization on search engine and a healthy traffic for that site.


Site speed means the full time needed to all elements to open clearly when someone clicks on a link. Other thing to realize the importance of site speed that Google had added site speed elements as one of top 200 factors that helps Google to give advertisements to sites or blogs.
Specialists had stated some statistics about the relation between site speed and visitor behaviour towards that site, that statistics said that:

- 43% of people in all over the world turn off the site if time loading exceed 3 seconds. Therefor if your website takes more than 3 seconds , you have to be worry.
- 47% of network users expect that the site will load within 2 seconds. Therefore if time loading exceed to 3 or more seconds , you have to be sure that most of your visitors will be bounced visitors and may will never come again because of low of site speed.
- Professional owner sites think in a practical way saying that a 100 millisecond delay in your Amazon.com lead to a drop of 1% of your revenue. Do you see how milliseconds affects on your work!?
In brief, if your site speed about 2 second that is good and will lead to good traffic.
If your site speed range between 2 till 5 seconds, that less better but is considered as a normal speed.
If that speed more than 5 second you have to worry about it and do your best to speed it.
Here are the top 5 actions you have to do, which will help you in many things like site speed for SEO, ranking and increase your site traffic.
1 - Check your loading site speed.
You can do this by many ways, the best one is by Google webmaster tools.
2 - Compress your site.
You can learn about compressing your site with the help of Gzip compression, that will decrease the time that the server takes to send your site data to your visitors.
3 - Optimize your site photos.
you have to avoid large photos and animated GIFs and never use it unless it is too necessary. 
In photos use jepg and png formats for its small size.
4 - Remove unnecessary content.
In restrict decision remove all unnecessary content from your site and keep only plugins which really required.
That will improve your traffic and increase your site speed.
5 - Use Google webmaster site performance suggestions.
If you use Firefox  browser you must have Firebug add-on and Google's page speed extension. this will give you a detail site speed reports and a great recommendation to how to speed your site.
That is in all, if you do that 5 actions, you will get a great results for your site speed, SEO, and traffic.
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