Page load speed not only impresses your visitors, but it also can greatly impact your overall SEO. It is important to optimise your website properly. Speed is a crucial and fundamental factor of good performance. Page load speed under 4 seconds is good, anything between 2-3 seconds is really good. You can use tools such as Google PageSpeed Insights to check what is wrong with your website. There are some factors to consider when it comes to improving speed. Usually the following are some more common problems found.
- Hosting can be a starting factor, if your hosting doesn’t have sufficient resources to run the site then it may be a time to switch.
- Install a more efficient caching plugin and configure it properly.
- Run the website via a cloudflare proxy and leverage more CDNs.
- Defer or minify javascript as needed (this part is the hardest as it can break the site very easily so a lot of experimentation is needed).
- Reduce overall size of the DOM by refactoring certain aspects of html code.
- Compress the images on the site.
- If you’re using WordPress or similar CMS remove all plugins/modules which are not being used or inactive.
Consider some of these factors in improving your speed. If you have a site that needs attention on the performance front, don’t hesitate to reach out to our professional team of experts at Devradius. Devradius is capable of auditing a site and going step by step in improving speed on your website. General users love fast sites that they can go through quickly and use. SEO works in somewhat similar way, faster sites will get better ranking!