What methods should you use to decrease the loading time of a website?

[Varun Roy]

What methods should you use to decrease the loading time of a website?

 

[Aditya007]

Check tools like pingdom and gtmetrix to see the load time for the GEO your users are based in. You must use a CDN service (like cloudflare), reduce image size if they're big enough and most importantly use a good webhost, preferably a VPS.

The tools I mentioned, will suggest you the ways to improve your loading time anyway.

 

[Strickland]

Deffo suggest a VPS, especially when you start a campaign. You don't want that baby crashing when all the traffic comes flooding in.

 

[Branding By 8]

There are several simple ways that can help to minimize the load time. Here are some of the best ways you can implement on your site to reduce the loading time.

Choose a fast web host

Compress images

Use a simple and clean theme

Minify HTML, CSS, and JS files

Install an effective caching plugin

Regenerate thumbnails

Lazy load images and videos

Implement CDN

 

[Graybeard]

• Fast performing and reliable webserver is a must with enough resources and free memory available.
• How to check server memory (in SSH or a LINUX Terminal):
  

  $ watch -t -n 10 "(date;ls -lh memMon  ; free -mh) >>memMon; tail -n5  memMon"

  don't forget to empty the data saved I get 4mb/day~

  $ echo -n > memMon

• CMS like WordPress (others) are generally slower --complex scripting has runtime.
• Images need to be compressed properly .webp is recommended to replace the older .jpg amd .png (where it can be used/or rendered properly)
• Cloudflare adds load time in many cases when used (ddos protect--in hiding mode) to check and redirect to the real server IP --this is not a CDN function. Do you really need a CDN or can you just use a GEO area server, e.g.; Europe, US-North America, Asia, etc ...

 

[martinsmith]

Optimize Caches improve Page Load Time
Trim Down JavaScript Parsing to achieve Ideal Page Load Time
Do Away with Redirects and Improve Website Speed
Minify JavaScript & Style Sheets to Speed Up your Website.

 

[Ricky Larson]

There are some ways to decrease the loading time of a website. The ways are following
a) Optimize your images
b) Browser caching
c) Compression
d) Optimize your CSS
e) Keep your scripts below the fold

 

[rakeshkapoor]

What methods should you use to decrease the loading time of a website?

First inspect those pages which are causing heavy load times . You can use GTMETRIX or google analytics
1) Optimize your images
2) Minify CSS
3) Defer parsing of javascript
4) Leverage browser caching
5) Fix inline small javascript
6) Combine images using CSS sprites
7) Using Fast host

 

[Jennifer Thomas]

So many ways are available on the internet to decrease the load time, where you will find many ways or maybe some of pass upper sides of your mind, So first, decrease load time is a lightweight website and a website only can make lightweight when don't use any heavy material insight. like images, videos, theme and more
so here I share some basic methods to decrease load time of a website.
- use a responsive server
- use compressive images and videos
- use a lightweight theme
- optimize your CSS
- don't use so many plugins
- don't use so may tool on the website
- try to post lightweight post

 

[kavita bhaskar]

There are soo many tools which can tell what to fix on a page after analyzing
Start by
1) Analyzing on Pagepspeed insights, Gt metric or pingdom
2) Optimize the images . ( Compress them , Add dimension attributes , Convert into better format like Jpeg2000 etc
3) Fix Leverage Browser caching issue
4) Use a Fast CDN
5) Minimize the Java & CSS files
Im sure you will resolve this issues , you will see an improvement in the load times

 

[Honeybadger]

Make sure your images have the correct file extension. Many websites have photograph images that are stored as GIF or PNG format when they should be JPG. Simply changing a photograph from PNG to JPG can make the file sizes 10x smaller. This can knock valuable seconds off the loading speed of your web pages. The reverse also works, especially for logos (which should normally be PNG or GIF) and which are often mistakenly saved as JPG. The image file types that Google currently supports are: BMP, GIF, JPEG/JPG, PNG, WebP, and SVG.