How to get a faster page loading time?

14 years ago

Some ideas:

- Reduce images and optimize the ones you have with the appropriate file type and quality (Adobe Fireworks is great for this)
- Reduce the number of plugins (javascript or otherwise) and if you are not a programmer contact one for optimizing them
- If you use PHP or another server-side language the performance of the server will be extremely important regarding the speed (the same applies to any database application and for larger websites)
- Improve the connection speed of your server (if you are self-hosted)

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naffets77 14 years ago

If you don't already have it get yourself firebug and yslow a firebug plugin by some yahoo devs, google them.

Yslow will give you a break down of every element loading in your page. Also, server response is a little trickier because that can be an issue w/traffic, memory, cpu speed etc.. the more people viewing your site will cause it to slow down. Yslow will give tips for that etc, but in the end all the optimization won't help if you're getting a lot of hits and in that case you'll have to upgrade your hosting.
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learnfromthebest 14 years ago

My host is hostgator and I have a wordpress site. I'll try reducing the amount of plugins I have, thanks
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Online Bliss

14 years ago

If you have a second host, you might try hosting all images on a
different one than your web pages. Thus reducing the load. That is what I do and
am quite happy with that.

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xohaibx

14 years ago

Keep it simple. Avoid too many graphics. Make sure your images are light weight. Use a lighter theme if you're using WordPress. Cut down on the plugins.

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Intrepreneur 14 years ago

Use Pingdom Tools to test the speed. If your page loads less than 5 seconds you are alongside most of the websites whom already perform well. The advice above is helpful in reducing the speed it it is too high. Otherwise just search google for website speed test and the first result there is a good place to test.
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Bruce Wedding

14 years ago

Web Page Analyzer - free website optimization tool website speed test check website performance report from web site optimization

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rondo

14 years ago

Wordpress can be a server hog on shared hosting plans, so if your traffic is growing you might want to consider upgrading to a VPS or semi-dedicated plan.

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Directcpv

14 years ago

You can use a Content Delivery Network like Akamai, Limelight Networks or Level3. Or you can contact your hosting company. Companies like these have 35,000+ servers around the world and your content basically would get mirrored across all these servers around the world, so all your content, images or downloadable files are distributed amongst all these servers around the world. People hit the server that is closest to them. Your traffic will instantly increase. Webair offers this server for $0.08 per Gb, but if you do a lot of volume, you can contact CDN brokers like bandcon.com who are resellers of Akamai. Pricing is like $5 mbit for up to 500mb/sec of traffic.

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TheRichJerksNet

14 years ago

* Reduce image file sizes
* Reduce amount of post shown on each page
* Reduce amount of comments on each page
* Delete unused plugins
* Delete unused themes
* If theme has sections you do not use then delete the code
* If you know someone with ioncube have them encrypt the site (this will speed it up by 20% or more)
* Have any 3rd paty apps added on the site look for local solutions you can use directly from your server. (example if you are using google's cheap stats then use your own instead)

You do not need a dedicated server or vps, as your speed will also depend upon the internet connection speed of your visitors also..

James

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MJ Sterling

14 years ago

Most WP themes use CSS, make sure that your does too.. there's still a few that use nested tables around, which can slow things down.

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DogScout

14 years ago

Believe it or not, white space in the code increase file size. Remove all spaces in the code.

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mojojuju 14 years ago

When you can, cache all of your pages as static html files. This will greatly speed things up compared to dynamically generating each page every time that it is requested by a site visitor's web browser.
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GeorgR.

14 years ago

Originally Posted by learnfromthebest

Just wondering how to get a faster loading time for my website. My bounce rate is pretty high, but I know I have information that people want to read (all targeted visitors).

It might be because of the disquis comments plugin, but idk. Does anyone have any tips or tricks to make the load time faster? Would help out a bunch, thanks.

use wp-super cache plugin, reduce picture size (jpg compression). Wordpress can be tweaked pretty much actually.

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naffets77

14 years ago

When troubleshooting, looking > guessing.

Post or pm me your site and i'll tell you what you need to do to improve it.

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askloz

14 years ago

take all the blankspaces out and place your code all on one line, you can save up to around 30-40% while using div tags and css style sheets only, in file size

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zoobie

14 years ago

Reduce the numbers of inline javascript usage (keep them on a separate file), the numbers and the size of images. The numbers of inline CSSs, wordpress plugins. etc.

I agree Firebug is a pretty cool thing to use.

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John Romaine

14 years ago

Googles Webmaster is a great tool that provides some useful information for optimising page speed. Infact I think its called "page speed"

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