A well-known maxim “Patience is a virtue” doesn’t apply online.
“Page speed” is often used interminably with “site speed”, which can actually be described as the page speed for a sample of page views on a website. Page speed, on the other hand, can be described as the actual speed of the page or “page load time”, the time a website page takes to fully display all the contents it features. It can also be described as the “time to first byte” i.e. how long it takes for your browser to get the first byte of information from the web server.
Time and again, Google has stressed on the fact that site speed which ultimately leads to page speed is one of the most important signals used by its search algorithm to rank website pages and the researchers have revealed that Google takes into consideration “time to first byte” when it determines page speed.
Going by the statistics a 1-second delay in page load time garners website,
- 11% fewer page views
- 16% decrease in customer satisfaction
- 7% decrease in website conversions
Therefore it is imperative to keep your website page load speed in check, not only to rank well on Google but also to improve the bottom line profits. Here are 3 sure short ways listed together by the experts of the Top Website Designing Company in Delhi to take your website’s page speed a few notches up.
Use a Content Delivery Network: Well this one is the most beneficial when reducing your page load time. Hosting your website’s media files on a content delivery network is one of the best ways to snatch those extra seconds from your site to fully load. It proves to be utterly beneficial since it saves up to 60% bandwidth and approximately halve the number of requests your website makes.
Use GZIP Compression: If you are creating high-quality content, then your website must be harboring large pages which are often 100KB and sometimes more. This makes the website heavier and takes few more seconds to process and download. One and the only way to boost the load time of these pages is to zip them together in a file, a technique which is popularly known as compression. GZIP compression is a tool which helps reduce the bandwidth of your website pages and alleviates HTTP response.
Optimize your CSS: Know this, your CSS loads much before your website is fully displayed in front of the users. The longer it takes for them to fully download your CSS, the more they wait. By optimizing your CSS it will take less time for the files to download and will give visitors faster access to your website pages. How? Get rid of redundant code in your files and remove extra spaces in your style sheets.