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“People ignore design that ignores
people!”- Matt
Edson.
Web design
is what that compels the visitors to stick to a website. True! The design of
the website is the very first element of the website that an individual views
and talks about it. It actually decides
how much visitors go deep inside the services of the website or just bid good bye by seeing the cover of it. So, make your
website clear, fine and enchanting enough to attract the customers in one go.
There are
more elements that decide whether the visitor will stay on your website or not,
like its functionality, page speed, navigation, etc. As per the page speed, it
is one of the lucrative factors to decide the number of visitors to your site.
The page loading speed should be fast that the visitor doesn’t get bored seeing
the page is loading, loading and loading.
It, often, compels the visitor to leave that specific website.
The February
Month of 2016 has started and with the year, the era has also transformed. The
people have become less patient.
Actually, the online media has made the person impatient. Everything you want
can be brought to you at your doorstep in
less time and so as the time. It is marching
forward with full speed. People often choose the website, through which
navigation is easy, its page loading speed doesn’t make the customer hyper.
The page
loading speed is the significant factor today which determines the wavelength
of traffic to a specific website. The more the smooth and fast is the
navigation between the web pages, the more
number of visitors will stick to your website. So, you have to adopt this step
to attain maximum exposure in the online world.
Here are 5
tips to increase the page speed.
1.
Use CDN (Content Delivery Network):
Hosting your media files
on a content delivery network is one of the greatest ways to boost the speed of
your website and even can save up to 60% bandwidth and halve the number of the
requests your website makes. Using CDN hosts your files across a huge network of
servers worldwide. This is the actual reason that the bandwidth is spread
across so many different servers and thus,
it lessens the load of the single server
and makes your website secured from fraudulent traffic.
2.
Use Browser Caching Plug-in:
If you run a WordPress website, a good website caching plugin is a necessary element. The
caching plug-in makes your work easier and approachable. The Caching plug-in
enables your website to store the copies of the web pages, rather than creating
each time a new user lands on the
website. It is a pleasant alternative to
significantly lower the page speed.
3.
Compress your Website with Gzip:
Gzip is the most
effective and favorable compression method which will reduce the page loading
speed significantly. Yahoo has stated that approx 90% of the internet traffic
travels through browsers that claim to support Gzip.
Gzip actually lowers the
size of the HTTP response and assists in lessening the response time.
4.
Fix all Broken Links:
The broken links can be
the biggest hurdle in the way to load your page of the website. Even worst,
they make your visitors leave your web page instantly. Like, 404 errors are the
reasons that have maximized the possibility to reduce the page loading speed.
Removing this, the average pages visited per user have increased from 1.4 to
1.85 pages per visit. Fix this issue and you will get the significant increase
in the page loading speed and therby, the traffic.
5.
Minimize Round-Trip-Times (RTTs):
Round-trip-time is the time taken for
the client to send a request and the server to respond. This way is affected by
a large number of things but is primarily impacted by the number of requests that are
being sent. These requests will put a halt in
the page loading speed. So, it’s important to reduce the number of requests and
for this, use CSS sprites to call fewer
images, minify and combine your JS and CSS files. And, the most importantly,
don’t call unnecessary requests. These requests will consequently reduce the
RTT.
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