How to get your website to load faster ?

Your website is like a race car. If it’s not properly tuned, you’ll have a slow loading website.As you might expect, a slow loading website is not good. There are several important reasons to have fast website loading speeds.

Simplify Website Design – According to Yahoo, a big chunk of loading time is spent downloading, images, style sheets, Flash videos and scripts. Simplify your website. Remove the deadweight that is slowing your website down.

Reduce Image Size – Make unnecessarily large website image files smaller in size. The more data the image file contains, the longer it will take to load. 

Consider using an online image optimizer tool to make large image files smaller. Keep file types to JPEG, GIF and BMP.

Split Up Unnecessarily Long Pages – Break up very long web pages into several pages. As a rule of thumb, if a page is longer than two printed pages, you may want to shorten it.

Keep CSS Files small – recommends keeping your CSS files under 75KB in size. This will help your website to load faster. Work with your web programmer to ensure your CSS is optimized.

Use PHP Caching – This allows visitors to store portions of your website on their computer to help improve load speeds when they visit your site in the future. Talk with your programmer to see if your website uses PHP caching.

Avoid Video and Audio – Flash video and audio welcoming users to your website is unnecessary. It just slows down your website and annoys many users. If you really feel the need for video, make playing it optional.

Find a Good, Reliable Website Host – Do your research on finding a good website hosting service. Be sure to get the right amount of storage and bandwidth. This is a very important issue to discuss with your web programmer.Check out this video for more derails.