5 ways to Speed up your website

Slow loading websites are mostly ignored by visitors and as well as search engines. Yes, search engines no more ready to allow slow loading websites in their search results, if your website loads very slow, you will be instantly penalized by search engines in their SERP rankings. So it is not only your responsibility to keep your visitor happy and also to make the search engine crawler happy.

There are many reason for the slow loading website like slow web server performance, high size images, uncompressed JavaScript and CSS etc. So lets discuss how to speed up your website using 5 powerful tips.

Speed up Your Website:

1. Optimize your images, reducing your image’s size can save up to 50% of load on website, but most of the webmasters not aware of this thing. To optimize your images you can use a best utility called YSmushit. This is a free and powerful utility by Yahoo developers community.
2. Compress your CSS code, compressing your CSS sheet can speed up your style loading, and using compression utilities like CSS Drive will cut the size and improve the performance. And also try to compress your HTML also, that will greatly helping in improving page load time.
3. Displaying text as image is another mistake usually done by webmasters, please avoid this, I am sure this will increase your SEO ranking also. Always use external CSS and Script Files. Don’t include CSS or JavaScript code in your HTML documents.
4. Use Trailing Slashes when linking to directories. If you have your blog in a folder called “blog”, link to www.example.com/directory/ (with a trailing slash at the end) as opposed to www.example.com/directory.
5. Avoid using tables and use DIV instead of tables this will improve your website loading speed better than before.
6. Another extra but valuable tip is enable GZIP compression for your website using your web server, if your web server is using Apache then you can easily configure it by following some simple steps.

So this article is about how-to speed up your website in 5 ways, please let me know your comments and suggestion on this post.

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