We all know how important the loading speed of your website is for your users. This is why we prepared these excellent tips to show you how to improve it!
Be minimalist
Take the logic of minimalism and apply it to every aspect of your site. Have fewer menus, with less text and fewer media files. The files that you are hosting should be small too. Resize the images and use an appropriate image format that will take less space. The same goes for the videos too.
Use compression. When you compress multiple files into one archive, it will occupy less space, and it will be faster to upload or download.
Apart from the content, you should also pay attention to the website code. Minify the CSS, HTML code, and JavaScript files. There are many plugins for CMS (Content Management System) like WordPress that can help you optimize the code so it will load faster.
Remove what you don’t need
If you are not using a particular CMS plugin, delete it! You don’t need extra code to be loaded when your site is requested, without any purpose. Sometimes we change a plugin with a particular purpose with another one, but we forget to remove it. It could still affect the loading time. It is not a bad practice, from time to time, to check all of your plugins. Delete those you don’t use anymore and update those still in use.
Have a great web hosting
If you really want to improve the speed of your website, the right hosting is one of the most important aspects. You need to get the right kind of hosting. Cheap shared hosting just won’t cut it. You will need a fast server (virtual or dedicated) with enough RAM and processing power. It will be the heart of your site, so it needs to be strong. And, don’t forget that its location is also very important. As close it is to the end-users, as fast it will be.
Use CDN (Content delivery network)
The web hosting is incredibly important, but if you have global ambitions, you will need the heavy-weight champion – the Content delivery network! It helps you have multiple instances of your static content – text, images, videos, code, etc., on multiple servers, in different locations. With the help of the DNS (Domain Name System) service to direct the traffic, it can deliver web content faster to the end-users. In addition, it cuts the length between the content and them by delivering from the closest source.
Conclusion.
There are many ways to boost the speed of your website, but these are the 4 most important. Try them out and enjoy the good results after that!