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2 simple ways to speedup your website in under 5 minutes

by alexcercel
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Hi,

I'm going to show you 2 simple and very easy ways to speed up your website. These aren't new nor rocket science, but they work and are often times overlooked. I must admit that I just did it today for my site (I simply forgot about those two) and for my amazement the loading time recorded by SEO Doctor dropped from 2.5 secs to 1.2! So that more than a 50% speed improvement!

1. Delete empty code lines.



2. upload your images to PunyPNG - PNG Compression and Image Optimization - Gracepoint After Five . Download the optimized images and replace your own with these.

That's it really

Formula one like website speed in under 5 minutes!

Thanks,
Alex
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  • Profile picture of the author alexcercel
    Oh, if you have other nice newbie friendly lil' tricks like these please share!

    Maybe we can get it to under 1sec without code compress and other css tricks that aren't really easy to use for everyone.
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  • Profile picture of the author weatherforecast
    thanks a lot. it's really work. it's very easy and fast . My website really work faster . Good work !
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    • Profile picture of the author alexcercel
      hey, glad I could help Hope more warriors pick on it and follow as it's really easy and so very little time consuming but with such great returns...
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  • Profile picture of the author webpro4hire
    Another tip would be to avoid "divitis" -> the act of nesting divs inside divs inside divs.

    for example:

    Code:
    <div id="xyz">
    <form>

    </form>
</div>
    the external DIV is not necessary as FORM is a block element. any styles applied to the DIV should be applied to the FORM instead, hence removing clutter.

    Look up "css block Vs. inline elements" on GGL for more information. Resulting code is lighter, easier to read and semantically correct (thus validates without errors).

    Not saying divs are evil, just not as necessary as previously thought.

    Cheers,
    WP4H
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    • Profile picture of the author WendellC
      If you have a WP site then some of these tips might help:

      14 Ways To Speed Up Your Wordpress Website And Increase Pageviews &ndash; Indyposted

      Wendell
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      • Profile picture of the author alexcercel
        WP4H < nice one! Doesn't work on my site as it messes up the java atleast for the form that is but I'm sure it would work on a usual website (please note my site is a bit weird coded being in fact a one page site with no real subpages). Anyway, A+ advice!

        Wendell < tolly forgot about WP as I was messing up with static html, but you're right. WP's important to be optimized especially with the latest frameworks that render the content dynamically even more than before. One of the best combos for that, that I used and tested is "Hyber Cache" and "DB Cache Reloaded"

        Post 5 from your link reminded me to use minify on my css too, not only my html.

        My SEO Doctor, on my system shows 0.6 - 0.8 sec loading time now

        Thanks!
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        • Profile picture of the author DJL
          There are a couple of things you can do to speed up loading of images:
          1. Free download - Image Optimizer
          2. In your image tags, specify height & width so browser doesn't need to figure them out, e.g., <img src='whatever.jpg' height='120' width='360' />
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  • Profile picture of the author Lloyd Buchinski
    People don't realize that the white space in code has to be downloaded too. I'm totally shocked as how disorganized the code is on a lot of sites. I did make a detailed forum post about this a year ago or so, which just sank out of site without a reply, so I put up a page right here.

    optimize your code

    It goes into the details. I'm seeing more and more pages these days (still not a lot) that have their code in just one long horizontal line. Each line break has to be downloaded too. (More details at the site.)
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