How to Optimize Your Website to Load Faster
Although high speed Internet access is becoming more common and available to many more users around the world every day, some people still access the Internet using slower connections, or need to watch the amount of bandwidth they use. Website load times are affected by the speed of your connection, but also by the content of the websites themselves. Optimizing your websites is a process that helps streamline load times and ensures that everyone can view your website with greater speed.
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Remove any unnecessary images for your pages. If you use images in place of text in some places, consider using normal text instead, because this will take a lot of load time off your Web pages. Remember that you can always format your text to look however you want using HTML, and it will still take up less space than images.
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Optimize all the graphics and images left over on your site using a graphics program or free online image editor. Simply open the image in your graphics program or online, then click "File" then "Save As," or "Save For Web And Devices." Select the JPG image format, then adjust the quality settings. The lower the quality of the image, the smaller the file size will be, which results in a faster load time for your site. You won't need to worry too much about the visible quality, because the difference is rarely noticeable unless you decrease the image's quality by a large margin.
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Spread out content over different pages, especially if you use a lot of text and graphics. If you have an image gallery, a bloglike structure for updates and news or other long pages, spread out its contents over multiple pages so each one doesn't take as long to load.
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Link to external JavaScript files instead of putting the JavaScript code on each page. By linking to an external source (e.g., a JavaScript file on your server) instead of pasting the code on each page, you allow users to cache the file instead of having to load it every time they view a page. To do this, paste the following line to replace the JavaScript you use:
<script type="text/javascript" src="yourscript.js"></script>
Replace "yourscript.js" with the name of the file on your server. The page will perform exactly the same, but the JavaScript file will be cached and will only need to be loaded once. This will take a lot of load time off your pages, especially if you use multiple files.
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