How important is it to have a fast website?

The speed of your website is one of the most important things there is, because visitors of your website make a very quick decision whether they stay on your webpage or not.If your webpage takes a long time to load, users will quickly leave your website to find the same services or information elsewhere.

To keep the attention of your visitors there, having a fast website is important. In this blog post we will discuss the benefits of a fast website and how you can make your website a lot faster.

Why you should have your website as fast as possible?

Nobody likes a slow website, neither the visitors nor the owner of the website, therefore it is important to keep the website as fast as possible.A first impression is of course also very important for your website so if your website is fast there is a big chance that the visitors will stay on the website.It has also been proven that a slow website results in lower sales. Amazon and Walmart have indicated that they had 1 percent less income with a delay of only 100 milliseconds.

Of course your whole website needs to be fast, if a customer of yours places an order and he has to wait 10 seconds for the shopping cart, there is a big chance he will order the same product somewhere else.This is obviously not good for your sales but also very frustrating for the customer itself, so it is important that you have speed on number 1 priority.Also, a fast website has advantages for your SEO ranking, if you have a faster website then you will rank higher in Google.

How do I make my website faster?

Now that you've read this you probably want to know how you can make your website faster.First of all it is advisable to use our SSD hosting the reason that this is faster than normal hosting is because of the techniques that are used.An SSD does not use moving parts, therefore SSDs are generally 40 to 60 percent faster than a normal hard drive.This makes an SSD ideal for your website or webshop, you will immediately notice that the loading times are much faster.

It is also wise to use Gzip, this is a technique that ensures that files get compression which as a result makes them a lot smaller.This can really make a big difference on your website, especially if you use a lot of images.

If you have any further questions about creating a fast website then you can of course always check whether a chat is available.If there is no one on the chat, you can always send a ticket to our helpdesk.