Do you want to retain a lot of users on your website? Do you want your users to go through different pages of your websites? The most important factor for this is to make the content view of the website be seamless and smooth. And for smooth and seamless user experience the most important factor is your website speed.
First of all to know the loading time or speed of your website, you should go to this link
https://pagespeed.web.dev/ and put your website url on the box.
https://gtmetrix.com/ is another tool to analyze your website.
This is an application that analyzes your website loading time and things that you can improve on your website to make it faster.
We did the same.
As you can see we got the performance review of 80 which is not that bad. This website also shows your broken links and SEO and many other stuff which you should feel free to go through.
Now, here are some of the things that you can do to increase the speed of your website.
- Get proper hosting: The most important factor for increasing the speed of your website is to get a good web hosting. A good hosting can help you with smooth loading of your website with less loading time and retain users.
- Optimize Images: Now when the website is loading, the heaviest thing to load is images, then videos and so on. So optimize your images before your upload them so that they can be loaded easily. Enable lazy loading as much as possible. What is lazy loading? Lazy loading is loading images on the go that is loading the images only when the user scroll to that part of the website that contains images and not loading everything beforehand.
- Minify CSS, Javascript, and HTML: Minifying CSS, Javascript and Html removes unnecessary characters, whitespaces, and comments from these files. This reduces their file size and improves loading time. There are various online tools and plugins that can help you with this also.
- Use a content delivery network (CDN): A CDN stores your websites files on servers located in different geographical locations so that when a user tries to view your website, the CDN delivers the website from the server that is closest to the user improving loading time of the website.
- Minimize HTTP Requests: Reduce the number of HTTP requests that your website makes. This can be done by combining css and javascript files, not using javascript links etc. Fewer request means faster load times.
- Regularly update software and plugins: You should regularly update your website, themes as well as plugins to improve speed as well as protect yourself from vulnerabilities. Staying upto date can also help performance and increase websites speed.
Remember to regularly test your websites speed with https://pagespeed.web.dev/ and https://gtmetrix.com/ and other tools. These tools provide you with insights and recommendations on how to improve your websites speed and help you identify further areas of improvement.
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