Smart Traffic SEO Tip #43 – Tips for Speeding Up your Website
Here are some tips on how to improve the load performance of your webpage:
Putting Stylesheets at the Top (CSS)
•Putting stylesheets in the Head section allows progressive rendering of your webpage providing good user experience. The problem when stylesheets are put near the bottom of the document is that it prevents the page from rendering progressively in many browsers. This could lead to the user getting stuck viewing a blank white page.
Make JavaScript and CSS External
•Having them on an external file produces faster pages. Why? Because the Javascript and CSS are cached by the browser. If they are inlined in HTML documents they’ll get downloaded every time the HTML document is requested as well as increase the size of the HTML document which will result in poor loading performances of the webpage.
Minimize Image File Size
We have already discussed this in our SEO Tip #15 before but additional tips are listed below:
•Don’t Scale Images in HTML – The image dimensions should be defined first before importing it to the webpage rather than setting the width and height in the HTML as this will affect your site’s load performance.
•Adjust the dimension of the image but don’t make the dimensions too large.
•All images should be placed in one folder.
•Specify the width and height attributes of the images
•Reduce the quality of the picture.
•Convert the image format to GIF or JPG/JPEG
