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Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 at 4:00 pm

20 easy ways to speed up your website

A fast loading website creates win-win situations and is good for SEO as well - Google has a speed within its algorithm, and penalize slow loading site.

As Search Engine Optimization (SEO), on the page factors and out of the page that can speed up your website. And because we love WordPress, there are plenty of plugins that will help too.

On Page Factors

without reducing quality. If possible, use Photoshop to resize an image and "Save for Web". Use image as a link to the full size image if necessary.
Ads tend to decrease as pages load more often external sites. If your site does not really benefit from advertising may be a good idea to remove. If you are using images found on an external server, save the local server to load the images folder and set a goal within your code.
Reduce the use of Flash to a minimum. Some flash files may take a lot of bandwidth when loading a web page, so try to use alternatives whenever possible:
1. JQuery for slideshows
2. Embed videos from YouTube
3. Inserting music files from YouTube
Minimize the use of codes and additional files that the page should load to work. Treat to incorporate everything we can in the source - or delete them. Google's code, images compliance, Twitter and 'and' facebook buttons are also guilty of slowing down a page, so try to minimize the use and optimization.
Monitor compliance of your website W3C. By eliminating many errors and warnings clean up the code and make it W3C compliant.

Off-page factors

Having a server dedicated, ie, not a hosting package on a shared server, you can help speed up your website. When this is not affordable, choose a company that has the specifications decent hardware to take the time to load on your web page seriously.
Incorporate gzip compression on your site will decrease load times on the page. Note: Sometimes the pages are not displayed in firefox so many of the trials required to see if it fits your site
Create a cache of webapges to speed up page loading.
A lot of plugins will decrease your site down - only use those that are necessary for your website work
CSS Minify removing spaces, etc. Passing through the unnecessary comments W3C CSS Compliance will also help eliminate lines that are not needed.

Wizards WordPress

WordPress Plugins That off-page optimization easier. Plugins for the above are:

Fast Cache and dramatically improve the speed of your site. It also supports multi WordPress ® / Networking.
W3 Total Cache: Dramatically improve the speed and user experience of your site. Add browser page, the object caching database.
Force GZIP: implements output gzip compression to speed up loading times. This plugin also makes a check to see if the browsers are not well say that they are compatible with GZIP, when in fact they do. This can accelerate load a significant proportion of users rating.: sometimes does not work with Firefox to try before you keep it active.
WP Minify: This plugin integrates the engine Minify WordPress blog. Once activated, this plugin combine and compress JS and CSS files to improve load time of the page.
Organizer Plugin: This plugin allows you to change the order of the plugins are loaded, selectively disable plugins per page or message, and adds grouping the plugin administration page.

Other Features

Install Firebug in Firefox to inspect HTML and change the style and design in real time, using the most advanced JavaScript debugger available to any browser and accurate analysis of network usage and performance.
Live HTTP Headers allows you to view HTTP headers of a page and while browsing so you can monitor what is an open source project started at Google to help you optimize your web pages. This can be implemented within your Google Webmaster Tools, or as a extension of Google Chrome.
Keep analyzing your website:
1. http://www.webpagetest.org/
2. http://tools.pingdom.com/

We hope these tips are useful to help you optimize your website. imp-ressions is proud to serve our communities local business in Lincolnshire, Devon and the rest of the UK, with our base in Lincoln and Plymouth, and we are committed to ensuring that receive nothing but the best web service personal and professional to build, maintain and improve their web presence. If you require a new website or web redesign, or if you want us to optimize your website, Please do not hesitate to contact us.

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About the Author

Lee Greenhill is the founder of imp-ressions web design that has served the Lincoln and Plymouth areas of the UK for 15 years. With an impressive array of clients and satisfied customers, the company goes from strength to strength. To find more marketing and web development advice, go to the imp-ressions website and visit our blog.

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