Have you ever browse or checked out your website and discovered the speed is slow? Have you ever think or figured out the reasons why your website speed is so slow? There are many reasons but I will figure out the 9 common reasons why your website is slow.
Website speed is one of the features you should apply to your blog for you to have massive traffics in daily basis and for your blog to rank better in Google and other search engines. With today's high-speed internet connectivity, it is no less than a crime to have a slow loading website.
No matter how rich your contents might be and how much SEO oriented it is, if it lacks a good loading speed, your ranking from Google is going to suffer and other sources that will bring huge traffics to your website.
Here are comprehensive list of factors that might be hurting your website loading speed or reducing your website visitors and ranking.
1. Too Many Ads - It is no doubt that display advertisements is a lucrative prospects for monetizing websites but that doesn't mean you should add all ad unit format on your website, this will reduce your website speed. The obvious impact of overloading your website is the addition of HTTP requests, which would need addition processing time. So, limiting the number of display advertisements will ensure better performance for your websites.
2. Bad Hosting - Those who host on blogger platform have never experienced downtime or website speed slow down and if there is, it's always fixed up. For others, your web hosting service provider makes a huge difference when it comes to website performance. However, this might actually not be your fault, if you try correcting all the above and yet your website seems to be responding slowly, then switch your hosting provider.
3. JavaScript Issues - You can add alot of amazing/dynamics contents on your websites with the help of JavaScripts and Jquery plugins. However, if implemented incorrectly, it might cripple your website loading speed. It takes time for JavaScripts and Jquery to be loaded and executed, kindly remove them and use HTML for better performance.
4. Too Much Flash Contents - Flash is great in adding interactivity on your website but at the same time, contributing to your website slow speed. The bulky and bigger the flash content is, the more cripple your website loading speed will become. So, reduce the size of your flash files or remove it altogether for your website speed to improve. Or better still, use HTML5 to replace the flash contents.
5. Excessive HTTP Requests - Having lots of JavaScript, Image files and CSS can lead to excessive HTTP requests. When a user visits your webpage, the browser performs several requests to load each of these files which can significantly reduce the page load speed.
6. Unclean Code - Another reason for website slowness is unclean code like excessive white spaces, inline stylings, empty new lines and unnecessary comments can make the website stylesheet grow larger in size. You can minify, compress and reduce these codes or elements with some online tools or websites to improve the overall page loading of your website or edit it yourself if you know how more about codes.
7. Unoptimized Images - Many unoptimized images can make your website loading speed slow. High resolution images can consume lots of bandwidth while loading, especially larger image size. Image format is another important factor to note, JPEG are more smaller in size compared to other image formats like PNG and GIF. Use JPEG for more faster loading speed.
8. Not Using A CDN Service - You should consider using a Content Delivery Network (CDN), if you are concerned about increasing website loading speed. It would minimize the round-trip-time (RTT) and serve the requested content in a much quicker time.
9. Multiple Redirects - This is one of the main causes of slow website loading speed. In case of redirects, when a user click on a URL, the webpage needs to load twice e.g from http://soundzip.com.ng to http://www.soundzip.com.ng to http://soundzip.com.ng then to final destination http://www.soundzip.com.ng. If there are many redirects, the entire process is duplicated, thereby impacting slow website loading speed.
Other common reasons for your website slow loading speed are:
- Social media buttons made with JavaScript should be removed and replaced with HTML code.
- Analytics tag JavaScript code.
- Excessive spamming.
- Loading multiple versions of Jquery.
- Unclear JavaScript.
- Excessive amount of coding.
These are the main reasons I can figure out why your website have been loading slow. If you apply them well to your website, your website loading speed will improve and be friendly to your users.
Is it helpful? If you encounter any problems or issues while trying to setup this, kindly ask more questions and if it works for you, kindly share your experience!
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