Does your website not load faster enough? A site with too many extravagant features can make it a bit slow. A slow website is troublesome not only for the user but also makes it worse for SEO.  Quick loading of your website should be your top-most priority.

5 Ways to Make Your Website Load Faster

Improve your Hosting Plans

Users or shoppers fancy sites that load faster. Speed of your website affects page views, traffic, conversions, sales, etc and overall status.

You must use Hosting which suits your business – Sharing or Dedicated. You have options to opt for either of the two. Although there are websites which works great on shared hosting but it still can load faster. A dedicated Hosting plan is always beneficial. Also, you get a higher bandwidth limit.
If you do have a shared hosting plan, you must switch to VPS (Virtual Private Server) or any other dedicated option. This appeals all kinds of small or large scale business hassle free.

Another situation, your website can work excellent on its initial days, but by time you add features and contents. Consequently, website will lose its loading efficiency.

In contrast, it’s not necessary to use VPS or a dedicated option. Firstly, you analyze your business’s website requirements and choose the correct option for you. A devoted option allows you your personal control, no shared RAM or CPU and other necessities.

Use Plug-ins efficiently-

Just imagine a third party code on your website, how harmful can that be security wise? Keep the count of plug-ins as low as possible.

Plug-ins crafts your website with new functions and features. Due to this, your website not only becomes attractive but also it becomes heavier to load. Broke and obsolete plug-ins can decrease your performance radically. You must cautiously use them to avoid increasing load time.

Plug-ins adds extra utilities to your website and when not in use for few months can become outmoded. This subsequently causes website to crash and also affects the security. Try to avoid the use of unnecessary plug-ins and using only the one with less involved with scripts and styles.

Usage of adaptive Images-

Images, Graphics, Videos are all an integral part of your website. Nothing makes it more appealing, right? But do you know this can be a reason that you losing visiting and potential customers?

Yeah, Images with high sizes and resolutions can reduce the speed of your website. There is always an option to eliminate it completely. But, another alternatives are to reduce its size:

Compress the images- Compressing the images will reduce the image size and hence the size of website. In short, it will not make your website slow.

Modifying the Resolution- Resolution of images is relational to its size. So, changing the resolution, i.e, decreasing the quality up to an acceptable limit, gives reduced image size.

Cropping the Images- Cropping is also a good option. By cutting out un-required areas from images, you automatically reduce the image size.

You have various tools online to compress pictures or make a better use of Photoshop, Pictures Manager, etc.

Caching System Enabling-

Caching means storing static files like Media files, CSS and JavaScript files, Images, HTML documents, etc. to make your website faster and efficient. Enabling the files to store in cache reduces the no. of HTTP requests and decreases the load time of your website. A cache is a temporary storage of files that gets downloaded when you access a webpage.

Ever wondered how one game you play shows you an ad of some item you searched on shopping site? Yeah, that’s cache. This caching works only for the repeating visitors as they have a downloaded version beforehand. Their website load faster because of the least no. of HTTP requests sent to the server.

The first time visitors involuntarily download a cached version on their visit. If you permit full caching, you save some time to load a webpage. Different platforms provides different methods to cache a browser.

Reduce HTTP requests-

Every time a user loads your website, additional web files loaded as well. They are supplementary requests for the browser to develop, called HTTP requests. While loading these files in addition to your site, the speed decreases.

Websites become slow because of too many HTTP requests. Each site allows a certain number of requests it makes while loading. You can estimate it via different tools available online, analyze and bring changes.

This is why you should minimize HTTP requests. There are some excellent ways to do this.

Combine HTML files, JS scripts and CSS together.
Using CSS instead of images when possible.
Lessen redirects
Installing a caching plug-in.
Shrink the amount of elements on each web page.
Eliminate unnecessary files
Use CDN

Use of CDN

A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a network of several servers sited globally to convey the web content to the end-user based on their physical location. It shares the website’s static files; also it helps in making the website load faster.

CDN enables the users to receive the web content from nearby servers. Besides, CDN can hoard a lot of bandwidth and therefore improve website loading time. However, it can be bit expensive to implement. But, if you have a heavily built website and surplus visitors, CDN is your necessity.