7 Tips On How To Make Your Blog Load Faster
You might have known it already that site’s speed might well be soon taken in to consideration for ranking websites as the new Google search engine starts to unfold by 2010.
So just don’t be left out of the competition here are some tips to help you as a blogger to make your blog faster and smoother.
1. Use Simple And Minimalist Themes
Try to use templates that uses less number of images in its design, I have seen a lot of templates that uses more number of images to decorate many parts in your templates, they might well look good but when it comes to site’s loading speed these images might well stand on the way of your site speed.
2. Use Cloud Hosting For Images
When you are using images and pictures for your post, make sure those pictures are hosted some where else. Hosting your images on photobucket is an excellent option, no matter where ever you are storing your images make sure you are storing it on a reliable location. This reduces considerable amount of load on your server and also reduces the bandwidth usage, not to mention it increases your page load speed for sure.
3. Avoid Flash Themes
Just try to avoid flash templates like a plague in your blogs, some flash templates gives out some weird loading screen which will not only drive your visitors away but also reduces the loading speed of your site to a large extent. Say no to flash templates.
4. Single Out Your Stylesheet
Try to single CSS file for your blog design, there are many blog templates that uses multiple CSS file for its design, if possible try to combine all these CSS files in to a single file that will considerably increase your page load speed.
5. Use WordPress Caching
Try to use WP-Cache and WP-Supercache plugins for your wordpress blogs, as they tend to store your cached pages in a single location, which will be displayed to the user which not only creases the page load speed but also it prevents the server from executing php codes to display the page to the users that considerably reduces the bandwidth usage too.
6. Minimize Plugin Usage
Its a good idea to minimize your plugins usage and keep it to minimum on your blogs, there are several occasions where I noticed my blog pages take 2 to 3 seconds more load time because of a single plugin, try to deactivate and activate your plugins and compare the loading times. This will help you to spot out the culprit and find an effective alternative.
7. Firebug Plugin
Use Firebug plugin for firefox browsers to analyze your page speed and also to get suggestions on reducing your amount of javascript in your pages and also reducing the size of CSS files.
Also try to get a good hosting service out there, cheap hosting service might not always be a good option when you take in site speed in to consideration.
Category: Blog Seo
