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10-19-2010, 08:54 PM #51Temporarily Suspended
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10-20-2010, 02:31 PM #52New Member
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These is very useful. Thanks for sharing nice tips.
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10-27-2010, 10:30 PM #53Disabled
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Thanks for the great tips, I will try them out later, hopfully they will work.
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11-12-2010, 08:59 AM #54Temporarily Suspended
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Thanks, interesting.
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11-12-2010, 10:34 AM #55Aspiring Evangelist
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Use webpagehost.com and their various geographically dispersed locations to spot check your site and most used pages. This is likely the best free optimization tool out there - completely web based.
If your site gets any real usage, putting static files on a CDN *can* make a huge difference and reduce load on your already over taxed server(s).
Putting a front end content cache in place (Varnish or Squid) and controlling the freshness of pages so avoids re-creating pages on every request hugely improves load times.
App level cache should be used.
Query cache should be used within your database.
Memcached or similar key storage should be used for various tasks. We shove configuration files, queries and anything else we can creatively in memcached. It's very fast.
Putting good harddrives in your server in RAID can make a big improvement on high file IO sites. SSDs give you an entirely new level of performance most RAID setups can't touch - and yes, you can RAID SSDs.
I think most complicated is re-working your site so convert your application files - say PHP pages to output to flat HTML files and only use the PHP pages at defined times. Not all content needs to be baked fresh for every page load.
Finally, consider a better provider/hosting company with better network connectivity and lower latency to your audience.
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11-26-2010, 09:59 PM #56Junior Guru Wannabe
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place your javascript code in an external file then just call the functions from your web pages. find a good web host or if you've got the budget, subscribe to a dedicated IP hosting.
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12-26-2010, 06:44 PM #57Junior Guru Wannabe
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The website loading time is also considered by Google as part of site optimization.
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01-28-2011, 10:13 PM #58Web Hosting Master
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I think Wordpress Thesis theme is good to load the site fast as we compare to others and Thesis theme is very friendly with SEO.
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02-13-2011, 06:50 AM #59Junior Guru Wannabe
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Use this website http://gtmetrix.com/
It can compare your speed with you competitors also and tell you exactly what needs optimization in your website
Just follow there tips in Yslow tab and you will optimize dramatically your website speed.
Also if you use a well known CMS like wordpress, Joomla or Drupal then there are many scripts and modules that can optimize your website but you should use them in caution. They involve tasks like:
- Combine javascript
- Combine css
- Combine images
- Minify (Compress) and gzip
and much more
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02-22-2011, 02:49 PM #60Newbie
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I'm familiar with most design tips mentioned so far, but you guys were talking about creating a cache for your page. What is this exactly, how do you do it, and how does it help? I know google keeps a cache image of your pages after they are indexed, but I can't see how that would help with loading speeds. And the viewers' local web cache is not exactly something webmasters can influence, right?
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02-26-2011, 04:51 PM #61Web Hosting Master
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03-08-2011, 10:22 AM #62New Member
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superb ideas
I have been searching for such ideas for a long time. I have many websites but never got the good traffic on them, i never knew that it was so easy to start with. I will now follow your tips and I believe that my website will run with a great pace now. Thanks for sharing such wonderful tips my friend.
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03-24-2011, 03:01 PM #63Web Hosting Master
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For website speed you can do following things:
- Avoid flash and heavy images in web designing
- Choose faster hosting
- Use easy navigation
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11-15-2011, 10:34 PM #64Junior Guru Wannabe
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11-16-2011, 02:24 AM #65Junior Guru
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I've always been a fan of WebPageTest.org as they allow you to run various tests at different speeds across the globe. Can't hurt to add another to the list .
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11-21-2011, 01:45 AM #66WHT Addict
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Keep a simple design, have a good hosting site.
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11-30-2011, 09:15 AM #67Newbie
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helpful tips, it is important to load website fast
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11-30-2011, 12:19 PM #68Newbie
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Great tutorial!
I'm a big fan of reducing external calls and increasing load times. Use of a secured database can speed loading up significantly, as can consolidating CSS and scripts.
A great tool to check out for analyzing site load times is YSlow by Yahoo. It's an addon for your browser that analyzes various elements and makes suggestions to improve speed. http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/
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04-04-2012, 03:23 AM #69New Member
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Nice post..
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04-04-2012, 08:01 AM #70Newbie
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Thanks for sharing! This is very useful.
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04-12-2012, 02:32 AM #71Junior Guru Wannabe
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Hey, i have tried most of the things for improving the page load time of my site, like CSS sprite, gzip, image optimization, etc. but there is a very slight improvement in the load time. Can anyone please go through the link below and suggest me some tips to decrease the page load time.
http://www.cdnmobilesolutions.com
Thanks in advance..!
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10-04-2012, 07:41 PM #72Disabled
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These are some great tips. I know it is very aggrivating when you come to a site that loads slow. I usually only give it 10 seconds or so to load and if it does not load, I find another site to go to. Often times this is overlooked but it is important to have a fast loading site. I feel that the faster your site loads, the more traffic/visitors you will have.
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10-05-2012, 08:45 AM #73New Member
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You are exactly right here and useful information about the topic but i have a related question that Drupal web sites are slow in speed while it loads into browser?
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10-07-2012, 03:22 PM #74Disabled
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12-27-2012, 07:06 AM #75Junior Guru Wannabe
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Another thing that really effects and slows down the load time are fonts. Using web fonts have advantages but it comes with a cost too. Avoid using more then 1 web font on a single page. Also , some fonts are much lighter compared to others. http://www.google.com/webfonts does a good job by showing how much a font will effect the loadtime.