A good landing page, how do I get one?
For your hosting, it is important that the landing page looks good.The fact is that visitors decide very quickly whether to stay on a website or not.
For this reason, a first impression of your website is very important.The average visitor decides within 3 seconds whether he stays on the website or not.
Now you may be wondering how you can make sure you have a good landing page.In this blog post we will go through how to make a good landing page for your website.
The speed
Now that you've read this you may be wondering how you can make sure that your website is as fast as possible.One of the things you can do is to apply the technique GZIP, which can be implemented in your web.config.
Gzip actually reduces the size of your files on the server.The result of this is that you use less resources and your website loads faster.
It is also advisable to check the images, you can look at the resolution but also the file type.It is important that you do not use huge images, they take up a lot of memory.
One way to reduce the size of the images is to use jpg images.These are smaller than png images which makes them optimal for your website.
You can also look at the resolution of the image, it is recommended to keep it relatively low.Another tip is to use ssd hosting.
Have a quiet page
Once you have a fast page it should also be a nice and quiet design.After all, you yourself would not order from a website that is very chaotic either.
Try not to put as much content on a page as possible, this will also affect your speed.It will also make for a chaotic start page, so try to limit your content.
If you limit the content it will be more pleasant for the visitor and they will stay longer on your site.Make sure you have a nice and calm design, if you have a WordPress site there will be different templates available.
Heatmaps
To have a good web page you also need to keep an eye on where exactly people click on.You can monitor this with Google Analytics or heatmaps.
With heatmaps you can see exactly where people click on your website, so you can adjust your website accordingly.Also with heatmaps you have different types that you can use to keep an eye on this.
For example, you have Click heatmaps for this, you can see exactly where people clicked on your website.In the background you get an image in return to see exactly where people have clicked.
Where people clicked a lot you will see a red color and where they clicked less you will see colder colors.This is of course useful to see but you can also look at movement heatmaps.
Here you don't follow what your users click on but where they moved their mouse.This way you can see exactly what you need to improve on your website and where you need to improve it.
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