Boost Your Website Speed in 5 Easy Ways!

Is your website taking several minutes to load? If yes, your website needs professional attention. The less time your website takes to load, the better it is for attracting more visitors. In order to enhance the speed of your site, it is essential that it is developed by a professional web development company to get satisfactory results.  

In this article, readers will be offered some tips about boosting the performance of websites.

1. Good Coding

Make sure that you use dynamic coding to boost the performance of your website. I would advise that you opt for quality web programming servicesfor enhanced results. Simply follow the below mentioned tips for better results:

• Create functions that are effectual and smart. Say for instance, you are using the name and date of birth of a user on the same page, then avoid running two functions or queries. Create function that calls two of them. In simpler words, do things only once.
• Ensure that you segregate dynamic and static content since it will help you in writing fewer amounts of codes.
• Keep the size of your database limited. Even if you have a huge database, separate it into numerous databases. It will help in improving the performance of your website. This is especially applicable for data that is accessed not so frequently.

2. Smart Use of CSS

If you are using CSS, you are required to mention each style in CSS files. You may be using considerable amount of completely diverse properties for a particular web page. In such scenarios, ensure to define them in a new CSS file and include only on that particular web page. This way, online visitors who are viewing other pages need not download the other properties. Also remember to condense the CSS files.

3. Use JPG, PNG and GIF Files Wisely

You should know how to use images in your website so that even if their sizes are reduced, they keep looking attractive. What I mean to say is that use PNG, JPG and GIF images intelligently. If you are using JPG images, ensure that you reduce its quality before you save it. Do not worry when I am saying to reduce quality. Remember that JPG is suited for photos that have more colors and details like those in snaps. Even if you reduce the quality a bit, JPG images will still look appealing on your web page! On the other hand, GIF has less colors and to be used in logos or line art. Remember to use smaller color palette before saving GIF images. PNG images can be used for quality translucent photos. Remember that Internet Explorer 6 has difficulties in displaying PNG files.

4. Combine and Condense JavaScript Files

If you are using JavaScript flies in only a few pages, ensure that you incorporate them in those pages only. Compressing the JavaScript flies will lessen the size to a considerable extent, and there is no adverse impact of it either.

5. Caching                             

Cache your web pages to reduce the load on the server by running fewer queries and more of static files. If you are using WordPress, then you are blessed with caching plug-ins such as ‘WP-Cache', that are ready to use.