10 Ways to Minimize Site Loading Time
All of us has occasionally ran into a web site that was slow to load or worse yet, refused to load at all. As you are well aware, this can be a rather frustrating experience. You are probably among the majority of Internet surfers who would just as soon hit the back button of their browser rather than sitting there waiting for the painfully slow progress of the status bar.
Obviously, frequent instances of slow loading times and downtime do not bode very well for any web site, especially your web site. If this type of thing happens often enough, you may well end up losing a lot of visitors. The question then becomes what then can you do in order to minimize these occurrences? The answer is to find ways to minimize your web sites loading time. The following is a list of ten ways to do just that.
Find your performance issues using Web Tools
One of the easiest ways to do this is with the use of a program called YSlow. This is a tool for front end designers and tells you why they are slow after analyzing the web page. This analysis is primarily based on the rules of high performance websites which is located on Yahoo!’s developer network. Although many of these high performance rules are common sense, some rules apply only to those websites that get millions of unique hits each day. While this tool is not the absolute last word on performance problems, it is a good starting point. And will give you an idea where the problem areas are.
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