Last Updated on Oct 29, 2019 by Numinix Developer
There is nothing more frustrating for shoppers and business owners than a super slow webpage. Not only does the speed of your website has the power to determine your sale strength, but it also determines your page views and ad revenue. That being said, if customers become easily annoyed waiting around for each page to load, chances are they will take their business elsewhere. So, how about we share a few secrets that could help to improve your website speed as well as make it more user-friendly.
Upgrade your hosting plan
One of the easiest ways that you can speed up your website is by looking at your server. Startup e-commerce businesses usually keep things cheap by signing up for shared hosting. However, if your website has grown in usage and content over the months or even years, this is a contributing factor that can overpower your website speed. Sometimes simply upgrading your basic shared plan to your own dedicated hosting plan will be a scalable solution to your speed problem.
Make your website images internet-friendly
Your image sizes that are used on your website can make a huge different to your website speed. Easily put, the larger your content/images, the slower your site will run. A simply way to counteract this problem is by shrinking the file sizes of your images or reducing the number of images you are using. Since your website requires some images to maintain its alluring personality, perhaps changing the resolution, compressing the picture or cropping the photo may help with your image optimization.
Delete unnecessary plugins
A website requires some basic plugins in order to maintain a user-friendly practicality. That being said, too many plugins can drastically reduce the speed of your site. It’s important to be minimalistic and set some time aside to make sure that the plugins you’ve invested in are working well for you. Evaluate each one and if you don’t use it anymore or if there are new and improved plugins that may work better, consider deleting or upgrade your plugin to maximize your page’s speed.
Optimize JS and CSS files
There are two ways that you can go about this optimization, minification and gzipping. However, for the best results, you want to use both methods together. You can have a developer install a plugin that will allow you to minify and gzip your CSS and Javascript.
Always remember to cache
Web pages tend to store static files (HTML documents and images) in order to allow visitors to access a page quicker, because the database is not required to retrieve a file every time. Although caching can be incredibly beneficial, the main problem is that it only works well for repeat visitors (since the page has to load the files once before it can store them).
Run your website through GTmetrix.com
GTmetrix.com analyzes your website’s metrics to see how it’s rated by Google Pagespeed and YSlow. If your website grade is rather low, let Numinix work towards achieving you an A. After all, we’ve optimized these high-rated websites, zeusejuice.com, atmosphericadventures.com and uniquecondom.com. So, if you’re having website speed troubles, contact Numinix and ask about our speed optimization service.
Do you have any other website speed tips that you can offer our readers? Drop a comment below if you do!