Every site must exert every effort in order to make their
websites load fast. Too slow or lousy loading drives away
visitors. The reason behind is - they don't want to WAIT, that
is!
Patience and time are two of the precious attributes why you
have to make your site easy to load. Patience because visitors
do not have patience to stick with your site until your site has
fully loaded. Visitors can change their mind in just a flick of
a finger thus your site must load as fast as a flick of a finger
to keep them from running away. Remember that they have lots of
alternative sites to choose from so give them reason to consider
your site? Time, on the other hand, is an essential element to
everyone. Who would want delay when you can have prompt results
with other websites?
What therefore, are the things to be considered? First, we have
to bear in mind that not everyone has cable modem, T1 or ISDN
connection to the internet. Thus, web designers must ensure that
sites load as fast as possible.
Second, we have to consider the bandwidth. Avoid using
multimedia forms. These sound files can take up immense
bandwidth especially if they are .wav file. Videos can also be
more demanding to loading a site. If it is unnecessary or there
are other alternatives to multimedia, then, do not use it. If
ever it is pretty important to have them in your site, limit the
size - that's your last alternative.
Big images mean big loading problem. Aside from multimedia
forms, also limit the use of huge images. In order to reduce
them, use simple and smaller dimensions. You can do this by
resizing or compressing your images. There are tutorials
available on the Net which will guide you on how to reduce size
of images without making it look grotesque and unclear.
After, resizing or compressing, you can use your images on the
front page and it will be in the browser's cache and it will
load quickly on other pages when called for. Therefore, you need
not worry about loading them again and again.
Defining both the length and the width of the image can also be
a good alternative. In addition, it will update you on how much
space it will utilize therefore saves time.
Another thing that you can do is to make your front page as
short as possible so that it will not take long to load.
Explanations and prolonged discussions must be put on the next
pages.
After you have done these techniques, do some tests. If you are
satisfied with the loading time - better!
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