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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.
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a very useful tutorial for beginners like me. boss thanks for the information
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Nice to know it was helpful for you bro
always happy to help!!!