How can reduce website load time

[Claude & Celeste]

Hi all I am looking to reduce the load time of website (e-commerce) the site contains images, javascript most are external the current loading time 0.11s per kb
Many thanks

 

[DesignerNick]

Is gzip enabled?

 

[Claude & Celeste]

Not sure I will check

 

[VinceSamios]

I'm working on a massive load time issue for one of my clients (started at 15s/page) - if you can get the load time below 4 seconds I wouldn't worry too much.

Off-site scripts and images can reduce reported load times, but generally these don't' create the biggest problem (because the scripts are generally hosted on some pretty robust systems)

If your php (or other serviceside script) is take a long time to load, then you really need to dig through your code and find out where the bottlenecks or inefficiencies are. The project I mentioned above has a series of issues which need to be tackled regarding php scripts and db calls.

 

[lynxus]

Have you got google chrome?

If so,
Open up your site,
Right click and click "inspect element"
Now click "network"
At the bottom of that page click the black "record" circle.
Now refresh your page again

Look at the page and see what bits are taking the longest to load.

if its images, try lowering the resolution or optimising the images / compressing them.

 

[edmondscommerce]

if you can get the load time below 4 seconds I wouldn't worry too much.

you need to be aiming for less than one second, definitely less than 2

anything over that is in the realms of the slooooooooow

 

[Chloe Taylor]

Try to reduce the amount of flash files you are using along with avoid using high resolution pictures.....

 

[jhardy2008]

I think you can call all images through .png In this method all images are call in single image page.

 

[C.Rebecca]

To improve the loading time of your web-pages:
- Optimize your images for the web
- Aggregate all CSS files into one big file
- Aggregate Javascript files
- Minify CSS and HTML
- Page compression
- Minimize HTTP requests
- Cache web-pages

 

[ClicProject]

Try looking at the google pagespeed tool, give it your url and it will give you a list of things you can change to improve your loading time. They also have quite extensive documentation on how to implement these changes.

Can´t post urls so search "google labs pagespeed online"

 

[CabinLIving]

Have you got google chrome?

If so,
Open up your site,
Right click and click "inspect element"
Now click "network"
At the bottom of that page click the black "record" circle.
Now refresh your page again

Look at the page and see what bits are taking the longest to load.

if its images, try lowering the resolution or optimising the images / compressing them.

Very good, I like this

 

[FastFood-Delivery]

You can try this;

Ffor example within your website refer to a page like this "aboutus.html" or "../aboutus.html" instead of the full url; ttp://mywebsite.co.uk/aboutus.html

Same thing applies to images as well, keeping your website links internal will definitely reduce your load time.

I hope this helps.

 

[Chunkford]

Are you or are you able to cache your web pages server side?
This can considerably speed up your web pages if done right

 

[upsite]

I'd say your total page load time needs to be below 3 seconds in the eyes of Google. Whilst it's not an important ranking factor, it is one, and bound to become more important in future.

* Minify Javascript
* Minify CSS
* Optimise images for the web
* Validate HTML
* Improve scripting code (if applicable)
* Enable Gzip
* and many, many more...