Google values the speed and optimization of your website. In addition, research has shown that visitors do not want to wait longer than 3 seconds for a web page to load.
We have listed some tips for you that will help your website load faster.
1. Reduce files
The programmer that works on your website undoubtedly uses HTML, CSS and JavaScript. These are separate files used to design your website. Many programmers do not pay immediate attention to keeping these types of files as small as possible.
Fortunately, there are ready-made solutions on the market that do take care of this.
2. Optimize images
We are all too eager to put beautiful images on our websites. That doesn't pose a problem at all, either. Except that some images are placed in their original size. Such an image quickly becomes too large and thus affects the loading time of the website.
Consequently, many photo editing programs have an option called "save for the web." This option optimizes the image for use on the Internet. This saves a lot of space and therefore loading time.
If you don't own a photo editing program and don't have the budget free for it, there are plenty of online tools that can help you with this!
3. Load when needed
Many images and text are further down the web page. This does not necessarily need to be loaded, to give the best experience on your Web site right away. A technique called "lazy loading" allows you to load content, therefore, when it needs to be displayed.
4. A fast server
Your place on the Internet is controlled by a server. You have a piece of space available here yourself, with which your Web site is accessible on the Internet.
One can offer this for as little as a few dollars a month, by placing you on a server that you share with other users. Besides the fact that this can slow you down, it also poses a security risk. If your neighbor's server is hacked, it is quite possible that your website will be affected as well.
A good server is therefore a must to guarantee the speed of your website. You can choose such a server according to the available hardware and the minimum requirements for your website.
We have our own virtual private servers. This allows only our clients to be on a server and we can maintain what is on the server ourselves. Our servers have been optimized to be not only incredibly fast, but also safe for our users.
5. Cache
Finally, you can "cache" your Web site. This is a technique that generates static pages on the server for quick loading.
It is not always necessary to cache. We recommend doing this only when your pages will not be modified quickly.