How to decrease loading time?

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My website is taking more time to load... How can i decrease my loading time??????
#decrease #loading #time
  • Profile picture of the author Mike Bonham
    Post a link to the site and I will see if I can give you some feedback on what exactly is taking so long.
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  • Profile picture of the author Cwantwm
    Open up the developer tools in Chrome and the timeline should give you an indication of what is slowing things down.....

    You can also follow the recommendations via 'yslow' from the yahoo guys, there is a plugin extension for firefox
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  • Profile picture of the author goleza
    Originally Posted by PadmaPriya View Post

    My website is taking more time to load... How can i decrease my loading time??????
    Your website is supposed to load in not more than 8 seconds or else your visitors will click away and never to return to it. Fast opening pages are therefore a key to attracting potential customers. There are several proven ways of reducing your website pages loading time. The following are some of the ways you can apply:
    1. Optimize your graphics by either slicing them into several loadable portions if they are large or by reducing their size. Large nad heavy graphics load slowly.
    2. Avoid using so many graphics on your web page. One or two are enough because when they are many they make the page so heavy.
    4. Try not to use many banners on your pages, although they are good for advertising your products.
    5. Although it's good to have special effects on your pages, it's not advisable to use so many of them. Use limited scripts.
    6. Animated graphics are very good in attracting attention but limit their usage to at least not more than two times.
    7. Do not make your web pages so large. Limit their width.
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    • Profile picture of the author npapazoglou
      Use these free on-line services in order to reduce the size of your images.
      - punypng.com PNG Compression and Image Optimization
      - tools.dynamicdrive.com/imageoptimizer/index.php (gif optimizer)
      - use gimp (gimp.org) to save jpg's with the maximum compression using its advance tab on saving image.

      More details on an image means heavier result. Some artistic blur is some times a good solution for some graphics. Don't start to test the compression's quality from the maximum (100%) but from a very low level. Then move the slider step by step till the result to be acceptable. Think that a faster site has better SEO than a slow site before drag the slider too high.

      Also use page caching and content compression from your server.

      Use a free web-service to help you make your site faster, like pagespeed.googlelabs.com

      If nothing is help, find a better hosting solution....
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  • Profile picture of the author Jay Moreno
    You can also use the plugin Yslow it works alongside firebug for firefox however there appears to be a bug in the very latest version of firefox and firebug - so if you haven't upgraded already you should be good... Basically gives you a report that you can print out that summarizes why your sites slow and who to fix it. It's actually developed by yahoo

    Hope that helps

    Jay

    Sorry just noticed someone else just recommended that too.. Well least you know it wont work with ff5
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  • Profile picture of the author addison.agnote
    Reduce the number of images. I believe an image adds a punch to a website. You can also reduce the size of images. Sometimes the images are just significant for my template and stories. If this is the case, what can I do are;

    - Choosing the right format (JPG, PNG, or GIF) with reference to the size and quality. I use many PNGs.

    - Reduce the size again using online optimizer such as PNG Optimizer and Smush.it.
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    • Profile picture of the author ureshii
      If you're using wordpress you can use WP Super Cache wordpress plugin to speed up your website. It works great.

      Other than that, whether you're using wordpress or not, you can try compressing your web pages using gunzip compression. Just insert the PHP code below to your web page header (before <html>)....

      <?php
      ob_start( 'ob_gzhandler' );
      ?>
      This will speed up your page load, but will increase your server's cpu usage though. And obviously you'll need to be using PHP in order for it to work.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jay Moreno
    Just like mike said right at the beginning of this thread at the end of the day if you want real help you need to share your domain so everyone can take a proper analysis of what's happening

    it could be simple, it could be complicated - right now people are taking shots in the dark to try and help you when in fact For all we know you could have 100mb bitmap on your front page! Lol
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  • Profile picture of the author oclseo
    Originally Posted by PadmaPriya View Post

    My website is taking more time to load... How can i decrease my loading time??????
    Using the following will work

    CSS instead of Table.
    Gif or PNG insted of Jpeg format.
    Don't use too match flash images.
    Don't use too match java and ajax script.
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  • Profile picture of the author PadmaPriya
    Hi friends, thanks for all your suggestions....
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  • Profile picture of the author mattprince789
    JavaScript files load differently than other HTML elements. HTML element is loading, the stay of the page continues to download. On the other hand, a JavaScript element must fully load before the rest of the page can continue.
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  • Profile picture of the author highave1
    did you use any flash or image? reduce those size.
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  • Profile picture of the author UnlimitedSEO
    I would checkout Pingdom Tools(I can't post the link because I'm a new user ) It will show you how long each element of your site takes to load. You may also want to use a CDN to offset some of the load if you your maxing your server resources.
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  • Profile picture of the author vijaykumarg
    Really useful for me. Great resources on how to decrease the load time.
    Thanks a Lot
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  • Profile picture of the author PadmaPriya
    I got sufficient ideas by you all... Thanks for commenting for my question...
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  • Profile picture of the author wulaishiwo
    my website is magento b2c webite, and it is also load slowly, which way i can to make it more faster.
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