Keep website loading times as short as possible
One of the decisive factors for the success of a website is its loading speed. Visitors have little patience and expect instant access to the information they want. To ensure that your website provides a seamless user experience, it's important to keep loading times to a minimum. In this blog post, we'll look at some practical steps you can take to improve your website's performance.
Optimizing the media
One of the main causes of slow loading times is unoptimized media files. Make sure you edit images and videos locally in the correct format before uploading them to your website. Online tools like tinyPNG can help you compress images without losing quality. By doing this in advance, you minimize the load on the server and shorten loading times for your visitors. Plus, in the long run, you won't take up unnecessary space in your package and will have more disk space available.
Use caching
Caching is a powerful technique for significantly reducing the loading times of your website. Make use of GZIP caching and consider using plug-ins in platforms such as WordPress to make this easy. The idea is to offer visitors a static version of your website so that dynamic content does not need to be generated each time. This allows pages to load faster as fewer server requests are required. At the same time, you ensure that a dynamic part of your website can be loaded without any problems even when it needs to be available.
You can easily check whether your website makes optimum use of caching with tools such as Google Pagespeeds and your own browser tools. Here you can easily see how the loading time is. Try out different caching plug-ins in WordPress and test them separately. It's best to take a moment to point your website to a subdomain so you don't burden your production website with it.
Upgrade to an SSD hosting package
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Minimize the use of external scripts and plug-ins
External scripts and unnecessary plug-ins can have a negative impact on the loading times of your website. Regularly check which scripts and plug-ins are actually necessary for the functionality of your website and remove or replace those that are not required. This reduces the server load and optimizes performance. A good example of this is Google Analytics and any other statistics tools you have installed. As soon as you activate Google Analytics or any other tool for this purpose, you will notice that it slows down your website. This is a necessary evil in most cases, but think twice if you want to collect statistics. This is also why you should limit your statistics tools to one tool. Instead of using several.
The easiest way to check whether you are using external scripts is to use the browser tools (f12) and then check the network. Or simply run a test, e.g. from Google PageSpeeds or Pingdom.
Optimizing the loading times of your website is an ongoing process that requires attention and effort. However, by optimizing media, implementing caching, switching to an SSD package and minimizing the use of external scripts, you can achieve significant improvements. A faster website means happy visitors and contributes to the success of your online presence. Keep an eye on the performance of your website and look out for further optimization opportunities.
