The Top 5 Steps to Increase the Performance of Your Website

 When it comes to website optimization most people just concentrate on SEO. Making sure as many people can find their website as possible. Yet one aspect of website optimization that almost always gets overlooked is website performance optimization. It should be considered that not all countries have fast internet service providers nor do all devices have strong wireless connections. This is why people need to make their websites run faster to help reach a much wider community.



Here are some Steps to Increase the Performance of Your Website.

Step 1 - Trimming the Fat:

One of the simplest and easiest ways to improve loading speeds of a website is to make sure anything that is no longer necessary on the webpage is removed. Any pictures, flash banners and aspects of a website which are not important to the functionality of the webpage can simply be removed. Another point to make is that if you make each individual webpage smaller, this will increase load times and help to well organize your website, rather than just have a few pages that are extremely lengthy and just tend to be cluttered.

In many respects an over cluttered website is distracting and tends to be very off putting to a website’s viewer base, so removing clutter can help improve your website in many aspects other than just making your website run faster.

Step 2 - Don’t use HTML to Resize Images:

When you have an image at a certain size/resolution (1080x960) but you only need a certain size image for example a 640x480 image. Never resize the image using html, because this just slows down a websites load speed. When images need resizing, make sure you edit the image in a photo editing software like Photoshop or MS Paint before using them in your website, this will just help make the website that much more efficient.

All in all if optimizing your website is something that is a huge priority for you I would go forward and advise this one extra step, to go view this  video . The video itself covers a lot of information on website performance optimization and can really help make your website load times faster. The presenter of the video is a Google expert in the field of website optimization and truly understands how to make your website reach its full potential.