Slow
and steady may win you the race, but that philosophy will get you
nowhere online. It only leads to frustration and less traffic on your
website. If your website has been loading a little too slowly lately,
here are a few common problems that may be causing the lack of speed:
Shared
Servers
More
often than not, a large number of websites share one server. When
millions of people try to access the different websites on the
server, a request logjam is created, stifling the loading speed of
all sites on the server. If you require your website to be fast every
hour of every day, you may want to switch to a data center that can
provide you with a dedicated server.
Too
Many Pictures
No
one wants to see blocks of text on a website, but adding too many
pictures significantly slows your site down. Only put one or two
images per page, and only add more if necessary. Furthermore,
optimize your images by resizing them and changing the image format
to either .jpeg or .png.
URL
Redirects
Every
now and then you will have to restructure your website architecture.
When this happens, you will likely have to depend on URL redirects to
help visitors find what they are looking for. This, however, should
only be seen as a patch job. URL redirects have to send multiple
requests to the server, which obviously increases the time your
visitors have to wait for the right page to load.
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