20+ Tips Optimize your Site to Load Faster – Reduce Loading Time

Now it is official that webpage speed going to play an important role in SERP and also it is one of the most important SEO factor.

Many blogger shifted to fastest loading themes for their blog but changing themes alone wont make any difference, you should know some tips to optimize your webpage loading time.

Check your Blog or site loading time from 3+ Google suggested tools.

1. Optimize Images :-

Image will surely suck your blog loading time, so optimizing images is a must thing in blogging.

Re-size Images — Use image size upto 300*300 or at least within 400 for your blog post.

Image Format– Use image format of .jpeg .png format because .gif  and .bmp images will take too much time to load.

2. CDN [content delivery network] :-

A content delivery network is a network of computers containing copies of data, placed at various points so as to maximize bandwidth for access to the data from clients throughout the network.

3. Cache Plugin :-

A cache is a component that improves performance by transparently storing data for future request, so that the  data can be served faster than before.

You can use any one of these plugins -

1- Wp-cache

2- W3-Total-cache

4. Remove Too Many ADS :-

Using too much Ads in your blog will surely increase your load time. so it is advisable to use less Ads network in your blog. Having a good loyal visitor is more important that making money.

If you use many Ad networks your readers will be irritated and you may loose them.

Best Ad format for a Good Blog is

1 CPC network + In-text links Ads + 1 CPM networks + Banner Ads

The above ratio is very good for a successful blog, it wont irritate your readers and you can also earn huge money from it it.

Do read – Tips to increase Infolinks [In-text] Revenue

5. Select Themes wisely :-

If you select a themes wisely, be sure that you had done 50% of SEO work for your blog. So select your theme wisely.

You can also use SWIFT theme it is Best themes that i’ve ever seen. My site load time decreased to 5+ times than before and too my traffic hiked 3+ times better than before

6. Use Less Plugins :-

Installing more Plugins is not a good practise. Remove unwanted plugins from your blog, so that your blog will load faster than before.

7. Avoid FLASH :-

Flash files has higher KB or even MB in size, so it take much time to load and too it is very difficult to optimize it for SEO. But for company website they have to use some flash in order to brand their site so they can use CDN.

8. Avoid Java-scripts :-

Remove excessive java-script from your blog. Adding each java-script will surely leads to increase in load time of your blog. Better you can tweak your themes for better performance.

9. Be Careful about Homepage :-

Homepage  loading time is important for any blog. So be careful in designing your homepage of your blog. so that you can impress a lot of users and webmaster.

It is best to avoid more number of Articles, links and Scripts in Homepage.

Do read – 15+ Tips to Increase Page views of your Blog

10. Avoid Free Webhost :-

Bandwidth is very important for a blog. If bandwidth is very low it will surely sucks your loading time and some of the free web hosting may cause serious damages to your blog.There is also a high chance of affecting

Watch Mattcut Video on “Site loading Speed”

11. Avoid “POP up” Ads :-

This practice  will surely irritate your readers and also it takes much time to load. So it is must to avoid such nonsense in your blog. If you need some Quality amount of traffic better do it ASAP.

12. Remove Unwanted Toolbars :-

Blogger’s use Toolbar to brand their blog by keeping it in Bottom or at the Top of their blog. Though it Add some value to your blog it indirectly sucks your loading time.

Better avoid such “Toolbar” from your blog, if you wish to keep it, be very simple in making “Toolbar” for your blog.

13. Remove Widgets :-

Remove unwanted widget in sidebar and make it simple to navigate. Having widget like chat widget or any Stats widget about your blog will do nothing for your blog.

So, be wise in selecting the widget.

14. Learn “Web-design” :-

This will surely work like a hell because if you have some basic knowledge in web-design there is no need of many plugin for your blog.You can customaize by yourself and also it is easy to tweak your themes well for SEO.

15. Too Many Comments :-

Having too many comments in a single page will increase your loading time of a blog.

Recently Techcrunch removed readers comments from their blog because they are getting 100-200 comments for a single post, if they accept all of these comments it surely affect their SERP and increase their webpage size.

Do read - 20+ Tips to Increase comments on your Blog Post

16.  Optimize Comment Section :-

Use Default comment section of your blog themes. Dont go for any other network like “intense debate” as it affect your loading time very much.

17. Use Thesis :-

Thesis, one of the fastest loading themes in internet..

But it is not free of cost, you must pay some amount to Buy it. So you can better use SWIFT theme for your blog

18. Optimize Database :-

Optimizing database will surely reduce their overhead as a result it load more faster than before. At least Optimize your database once a month.

1. DB optimize

2. WP DB – Manager

19.Optimize JS and CSS :-

Now a days you cant see a blog without CSS. It is a must to improve your SERP and helpful in many ways. It is must to optimize your JS and CSS files to load faster.

Download link –  Wp – minify

20. Use Less no of Images & Videos :-

This tips will be very useful if you write any list post in your blog. Always use less no of page and videos per page.

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