Tuesday, May 17, 2011

How to Optimize a Web Site for Fast Loading - Part 1

This is a one of most common issue we have. Imagine if your site takes more than 10 seconds to load or start render the contents, actually it is a long time and really bad which will directly affect your targeted traffic. Would you wait with a cup of coffee and watching your screen until a web page finished loading ? You never and same your visitors. So let us discuss about some of interesting tips on How to make a web page optimized to load in a short time. A short loading time = A Happy visitor.

In the very step I am going to share some useful online tools where you can have ideas about your site on what are the things I should fix in my site.

1. Page Speed tool from Google labs.
This is actually a very good tool, you can find it here http://pagespeed.googlelabs.com. Just enter your site URL and it will give you a page speed score and a lot of important suggestions on where and what are the points you should improve on optimizing the site.

2. Web Page Test
This is also a very good tool and my favourite one too. Find it here http://www.webpagetest.org/. With this tool you can test your site, how it will load in different parts in the world and different browsers. This tool will give you a great report of your site optimization as well as an optimization checklist. Just give it a try.

3. Google Webmaster Tools
The Google's webmaster tools is a power tool you can use to have details of your site. If you haven't a google's webmaster account yet, I strongly suggest you to open one, enter your site there and verify. Wait for few days until Google collect information about your site. Then you can use those details to optimize and as well make SEO of your site.

The tools I mentioned above are just free. So give them a try.

Once you have understood how and where you should get your hands dirty on your site to make it optimize to gain more targeted traffic, you can start working with a clear plan.

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