Load your webpages instantly. For free.
I'll start saying that speed matters. Many studies show that a slow page means revenue loss, it's as simple as that.
Why ? Because people don't like slow websites, and a percentage of those people, that are potential customers or list members, leave the website before it evens loads !
And also because slower loadtimes also harms position in search engines.
With that in mind, there are many factors that influence the speed of a website. Among those :
- The hosting company/package you use, obviously
- The weight of your pages
- The number of requests to display to your pages
- And some others, but let's keep it simple
So how can I load my pages instantly, and for free ?
Here's the good news. A free script known as Instantclick has been developped by a clever dude named Alexandre Dieulot.
What it does is simple : it starts loading the page before the user actually clicks the link to that page.
How it does it is the clever part : when a visitor puts his mouse cursor on a link, the script starts loading the page. According to Alexandre, "200 to 300 ms" usually pass between hovering of the link and actual clicking. You can test that here yourself.
Anyway, I've been using this on a site of mine, and it's pretty amazing.
I'm not sure this will help search engines position, but it WILL improve user experience, meaning you won't lose all these people leaving your website because it feels slow !
Get it here :
Non-Wp
Wordpress plugin (sweeet, free plugin)
You should know that install doesn't always work out of the box, so do your testing right.
In my case it didn't for example. For some reason, minifying all my JS and CSS fixed that. Again, sweeet.
Have fun with those fast pages of yours !
Jason Anderson
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