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Follow the Basics and speed up your site

  • Writing by Rajveer
  • On February 9th, 2008 at 5:10 am

Now a days the more importance is given to a website which loads very faster than a good looking slow website. And certainly it’s a good approach as more than half of people surf on internet to read some information. And when a search engines like Google has given them right to choose from multiple listed websites with same result, it’s obvious he won’t wait for long time if you don’t have a fast website.

There could be several major things that can affect a page loading speed like server-side processing, client to server communication, size of data to be rendered. But the most important part is how optimum coding has been done.

Compress your code

Just like any other data, CSS stylesheets and JavaScript code can eat up your bandwidth, especially on complex sites. Compressing and optimizing code will reduce it’s size by up to around 50% to 75%, which can be a great performance boost.

Below are few good points to remember:

  • Remove anything you don’t necessarily need
  • Use external files for reusable code
  • Do not rely on public web hosts for content hosting
  • Avoid excessive use of tables (Rather I would say, avoid use of tables)
  • Always write validated code
  • Minimize the number of images on your pages
  • Analyze your site’s performance and do the needful

One Response

  1. kaly June 30th, 2008 at 10:30 pm

    Agree! Lets see when everyone follows these basics.

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