light_speedBlog load time speed up is a constant topic for all bloggers. Now there are two reasons to do it. First, it is natural that people like fast loading sites. What would you prefer if could choose a slow loading or fast loading site? Second, Google representatives have been saying that site load times will be a factor in future search result rankings. This is a really big thing to consider, just keep reading to find out how you can optimize your blogs load time.

Ways to Optimize Load Time

Image and Picture Optimization

The most simple way to optimize load time is to optimize images. When you use images, make the images so small that they do what they are needed, but are not excessively large. For logos etc, you should use GIF or PNG compression and for normal pictures JPEG is the best way to go.

Widget Optimization

The more widgets you have, the longer your site takes to load. Simply, do not use widgets just for the sake of having widgets. Remove the unneeded ones and try to get along with less widgets.

CSS Optimization

CSS optimization works so that, you shorten your CSS file. There are many ways to write your CSS files and by optimization you can shorten the file a lot. The best thing is that there are free tools on the web that you can use to optimize your CSS. For example you can try to use CSS online optimization to do the job.

Sometimes the optimization does not work, so backup your CSS file before you overwrite the old version.

Have Less HTTP requests

Every http request takes time. Every image load and every CSS load is a new request. On every load there is overhead. The less of these requests you have, the better off you are. One thing that you can do is to combine the CSS files, if you have many of them.

Conclusion

Optimization is pretty vital for your users and in the future for even for google. People will appreciate it and like it. Like Nike says, – Just do it. :)

Do you think tha load times matter? What have you used to speed up your web page load times? Please share the wealth.

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