Totally free Website Optimization Tips: Page SpeedPosted by Lyons McWilliams on June 2nd, 2021 A web page's recharging time is becoming extremely important searching engine rankings. Improving page speed can cost a little dollars, so a small business might not do it. Here are some free ways to increase page speed: 1 . Work your images from another domain. For some reason, the people making web browsers have advanced advances when it comes to graphics, speed, and overall capabilities but are ongoing to program browsers to check out the same rules when launching a page. One of these rules is only two images may be loaded from the same area at the same time. This means that if your web site has eight images, your own browser has to finish loading the first two before it moves on to the second, third, and fourth pair. This is one of the reasons why businesses are acquiring cloud storage space from businesses like Amazon. You can find free of charge alternatives if you run a weblog on WordPress. com, Doodlekit, Tumblr, or have a Reddit account. This will reduce storage on your web host and offshore some of the loading to these outer servers. 2 . Consider CloudFlare. As a disclaimer, I don't work for CloudFlare or get paid for referring people, I just know that the service can also work. With a little configuring, CloudFlare will route requests built to your server through their own processors, which are usually faster. CloudFlare has paid plans, but the basic features could be had for free. I recommend CloudFlare if your web host will accept whitelist them (you need to point your nameservers with their servers; if your host does not know what's going on, they may believe your site has been hacked and will interfere). 3. Compress CSS and javascript. get more info has extensions that can do this for you. If not, there are some online services that will reduce your files for you. Lessening these files will decrease their size and thus raise your page speed. 4. Provide your javascript from a different domain. The same logic applies to any scripts you might be operating as it does to graphics. Depending on the library, these can get bulky, and loading a few per page can consume memory. Google Code serves script libraries for jQuery and other projects. Pulling from Google's servers is free and secure, since they publicise a 99% up-time. a few. Check your cache settings. If you are running an open source content management system like Drupal, it's probably someone has developed some plug-ins to boost cache performance. Setting up these will help your website serve up static pages instead of powerful pages when people visit -- in simple terms, your site will display by now existing pages instead of asking the database what to say every time someone is viewing.Like it? Share it! More by this author |