The speed of your website impacts your search
rankings, so it is important to make sure that your site loads quickly. A page
that lags and loads slowly will not only weight down your SEO efforts but it
provides your visitors with a poor experience. They are unlikely to return if
they experience a slow load time.
The Google PageSpeed test is a great tool that will give you a page speed grade and also suggestions of how you can improve your website to achieve a faster load time. Many businesses have slow websites because they are on cheap website hosting. Lightning fast hosting is well worth the cost, and if you are serious about your website performance then make sure you have a quality hosting service.
Check Blog Load Speed:
There are lot of tools available on the
internet which can be used to check your blog load time. Here I am listing two
famous tools.
Just open the link and type your blog address like this.
http://www.your-blog-address.blogspot.com/
Reduce Your Blog Load Time:
Almost every newbie blogger fails when it comes to reducing blog load
time. Most of the tutorials that are available on reducing the time taken for a
website to load are often un-clear or incomplete. We decided to share our way
of solving this problem. Below are 11 really interesting and important tips to
decrease the load time of your blogs by almost 90%.
1. Link To All images Inside Your Template From Blogger:
I shared an important tip tomorrow about creating an Image Backup in Blogger and then Linking to All Images From there. Most of you use templates that are not officially provided by Blogger. These templates often contain images that are saved on services like tinypic or photobucket. When your blog loads the browser has to connect to all servers which link to your images, as a result leading to immense delay in the loading time of your blog. What you must do is replace all such images with those that you have saved inside blogger as explained in the my previous post. The advantage of doing so will be this that the browser will need to connect only to blogger while loading your images. Thus saving time.
Make sure it doesn’t take more than 4 seconds for your page to load: MunchWeb found that 75% of users wouldn’t re-visit a site that took longer than 4 seconds to load.
You can easily check your site’s loading speed using GTMetrix.com:
CDNs and cache plugins are nice, but the #1 thing you can do to make your site faster is invest in premium hosting. Hostgator and Bluehost are decent for the money you’re paying. But they don’t hook you up with serious speed.
I’ve literally dropped loading times from 6 seconds to less than 2 seconds by switching from a $5 shared hosting plan to a top-notch host (I use Synthesis Hosting here at Backlinko). From a conversion and SEO standpoint, the ROI of premium hosting can’t be beat.“
The Google PageSpeed test is a great tool that will give you a page speed grade and also suggestions of how you can improve your website to achieve a faster load time. Many businesses have slow websites because they are on cheap website hosting. Lightning fast hosting is well worth the cost, and if you are serious about your website performance then make sure you have a quality hosting service.
Check Blog Load Speed:
There are lot of tools available on the
internet which can be used to check your blog load time. Here I am listing two
famous tools.Just open the link and type your blog address like this.
http://www.your-blog-address.blogspot.com/
Reduce Your Blog Load Time:
Almost every newbie blogger fails when it comes to reducing blog load
time. Most of the tutorials that are available on reducing the time taken for a
website to load are often un-clear or incomplete. We decided to share our way
of solving this problem. Below are 11 really interesting and important tips to
decrease the load time of your blogs by almost 90%. 1. Link To All images Inside Your Template From Blogger:
I shared an important tip tomorrow about creating an Image Backup in Blogger and then Linking to All Images From there. Most of you use templates that are not officially provided by Blogger. These templates often contain images that are saved on services like tinypic or photobucket. When your blog loads the browser has to connect to all servers which link to your images, as a result leading to immense delay in the loading time of your blog. What you must do is replace all such images with those that you have saved inside blogger as explained in the my previous post. The advantage of doing so will be this that the browser will need to connect only to blogger while loading your images. Thus saving time.
2. Save
All Images in GIF or PNG Format:
GIF stands for “Graphics Interchange Format” and PNG stands for “Portable Network
Graphics” Both these formats are well compressed, smaller in size and widely
supported by all browsers. But if size is concerned PNG compresses far better
than GIF. In typical cases up to 5-25%. There are some transparency
issues with PNG in IE6 but since IE7 is widely used these days, transparency is
nor more an issue. Using any of these image formats will tremendously reduce
the load time of your blogs by 60% i.e 70-90KB The size is an approximate for
my blog and true size depends on the number of images you use.
3. Give
Proper Dimensions To Images:
Giving each image a specific width
and height will make it easy for the browser to load the image quickly. Always
decrease the size of an image if the original size is larger. The general HTML code
for an image looks like the one below,
<img width=””
height=”” src=”URL Of Image” />
The width and height will require a
value in pixels. One pixel equals a dot on the screen. A Full size image on my
blog will have a width=”590px” and height can be as long as I want. 590px
almost equals the width of my posts. Hope that gives you an idea on how to
choose width and height values for your images. Browsers find it easy to load
images whose dimensions are specified. Make sure you make it your habit to specify
a proper size for your images. If you use Windows Live Writer your life will
become far easy.
4. Don’t
Use An Image As A Background:
If you are using any image as a
background then kindly remove it. A background Image repeats itself
horizontally and vertically and is responsible for 50% slow load time. Just
remove it and see the difference. To remove a background image simply find this
CSS code inside your
template,
(Tip:- Its located just at the top of your blog. Simply search for body)
body { background: #7AA1C3 url(http://xyz.com/blabla.jpg);
width: 980px;
color: #333;
font-size: 14px;
font-family:
Georgia;
margin: 0 auto 0;
padding: 0; }
This code will
look different in your template but you should be concerned only with the bolded black text. Simply Delete url(http://xyz.com/blabla.jpg) and
save your template. Give a simple color to your background. #7AA1C3 refers to Background Color.
You can change it by using my Hexadecimal Color Chart
Why should you link to external
sites for storing your JavaScript whilst you can easily save it in Blogger!
Save All your JavaScript codes inside your templates just above </head>
using the code below,
<script
type='text/javascript'>
//<![CDATA[
Paste Your
JavaScript Code Here
//]]>
</script>
The bolded text is where you must
paste the JavaScript code that you use in your template by linking to an
external site.
To find a JavaScript URL that links
to external site, search for <script
type='text/javascript'> inside your template (Make sure to check “expand widget templates” box at
top-right corner). Once you find such linking, open that link in a browser. You
will see large piece of complex text in the window and that is your JavaScript
code. Simply copy it and paste it in the code shared above. Replace All
JavaScript codes inside your template with the code above, ensuring that you
have extracted the code from the link and pasted it in the code above.
6. Always
Accept Quality and Well Scripted Blogger Templates:
The major mistake most bloggers make
is to upload any template that attracts them. Most un-official Blogger
templates that are available in blogosphere are often created by people who are
not well aware with proper use of HTML and JavaScript. A improper scripted
template with empty tags ,unwanted tags and broken JavaScript often make Job
tough for search engine spiders to crawl the content of your weblog. Further
Browsers also waste precious time in reading broken scripts. If a JavaScript is
not well coded or optimized, it can cause a readers PC to hang! Imagine this
happening to readers accessing your blog. In Short use templates from
authorities who have respect in blogosphere and from those who are certified
professionals.
7. Use
Limited Advertisements:
If you are blogging only to get paid
by displaying large chunks of ads from several sources than you are surely
misusing this beautiful experience of blogging. Don’t make a blog a Fish
Market. Display only few ads at major areas in your blog. Doing so will keep
your blog interface clean and easy to be crawled and browse able. Each add that
you display uses JavaScript that prolongs the page Load time. Make sure you
limit all your ads to three.
8. Don’t
Link To Blog Directories:
It is a wrong perception that
linking to several blog directories will bring you immense Traffic. When you
link to several blog directories on your homepage, search engines loose trust
on your blog due to excessive linking and browsers find it difficult to browse
those tiny images that link to blog directories. All blog directories ask you
to link back using a small image link on your blogs but doing so will only
damage the success of your blog. I believe only on blogcatalog and mybloglog as
relevant authorities to expect Traffic from. If you really want some amount of
traffic from blog directories then trust only on blogcatalog and mybloglog.
Moreover accept only the small piece of meta tag from them rather linking to
them.
9. Don’t
Use Widgets From Blog Directories that Use Images:
I refer to the famous recent Viewers
widget by blogcatalog and mybloglog. These widgets use JavaScript that link to
these sites and also display images that add up to the load time of your blog.
I use meta tags provided by them rather using their widgets. This helps in
reducing the time taken for my pages to load. If you really want to use these
widgets then try displaying few images on them, as low as 10.
10. Summarize
your Posts Using The Read More Link:
Full Length Posts at homepage is one
of the biggest reasons why a blog has high load time. Summarize all your posts
by using the continue Reading Link
or Read More Link. To know how
to add it, read this post-> Read More Link
11. Show
Only Four-Five Posts At Home Page:
Don’t show more than 4-5 posts at
Homepage. Doing so will keep your readers busy reading different posts and they
will also find it interesting to see how fast the homepage loads.
12. Eliminate
External Links:
Don’t use widgets that are from
external sites other than blogger. Get rid of stat counters and use Google
Analytics. Don’t store images on other services but Blogger. Save all
JavaScript code inside blogger as discussed above. Don’t add links from blog
directories, they don’t bring Traffic with exception of blogcatalog and
mybloglog.
13. Nail Loading Speed:
Google has stated on the record that page
loading speed is an important SEO ranking signal. You can boost your site speed
by using a CDN, compressing images, and switching to faster hosting.Make sure it doesn’t take more than 4 seconds for your page to load: MunchWeb found that 75% of users wouldn’t re-visit a site that took longer than 4 seconds to load.
You can easily check your site’s loading speed using GTMetrix.com:
CDNs and cache plugins are nice, but the #1 thing you can do to make your site faster is invest in premium hosting. Hostgator and Bluehost are decent for the money you’re paying. But they don’t hook you up with serious speed.
I’ve literally dropped loading times from 6 seconds to less than 2 seconds by switching from a $5 shared hosting plan to a top-notch host (I use Synthesis Hosting here at Backlinko). From a conversion and SEO standpoint, the ROI of premium hosting can’t be beat.“
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