Hello
Readers, in this post we will learn useful tips which will help you to reduce
your blog page load time. Page load time is a big factor that affects the
blogging. Almost every reader hates the slow opening websites and blogs. Not
only the readers, but the Search engines robots and crawlers hate the blogs and
websites which have a higher page load time. It will affect the overall SEO and
quality of your Blog. I am sure being a blogger you want to improve your blog's
quality and reduce the page load time. But how we can do this? We will find the answer to this
important question later in this article.
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If
your Blog has a lesser page load time, you will be able to attract more users
to your blog which will help you increase your readership. Sometimes the search
engine bots and crawlers find it difficult to crawl the WebPages having more
page load time, hence they skip those pages. It will result in poor indexing and will surely affect
your organic traffic. Before going to discuss the remedies for the page load time, we shall take a look at the factors which affect the page
load time:
Factors
that increase the page load time:
·
External JavaScript Codes
·
External Images
·
Heavy Blogger Templates
·
XHTML Errors
·
Unnecessary Widgets and Plug-ins
·
External Hyperlinks and many
more.
I
have mentioned a few problems that may increase your blog page load time. Now
we shalltake a look at the tips
that will help you reduce the page load time.
Reduce Page Load Time
JavaScript:
JavaScript
is very important for blogger and other blogging platforms. But we need to use
it wisely because it can increase the page load time of your blog. You should
not be using a lot of JavaScript codes in your blog. If you have requirements
to use plenty of JavaScript codes in your blog then you should try to store the
JS code inside the template rather than just using it from external resources.
It will help you to reduce the page load time. You can store the JS code in
your template's head section using the script tags.
Post
Images:
Almost
every blogger uses images and other graphics to explain their blog posts. They
are an important part of our articles. But it may take time to load on to your
page and increase the page load time. To avoid this, you should resize the
images using the height and width attributes of image tag like this:
<img src="Source of
Image" height="in pixels" width="in pixels"/>
Template
Images:
Most
of us use the custom
templates to make their
blog look and feel better. But custom
templates have external images.
The external images takes time to load on your blog and increases the page load
time. You can save all the external images in a draft post in your blog and
replace all the external images links in your template with the new links. This
will surely help you to reduce your page load time.
Background
Images:
Avoid
using images in the background of your template. As mentioned above images take
more time to load and in case of any error your images will not load. It will result in a bad looking blog template. You can
use CSS style rules to replace the background images.
Limit
Posts on Homepage:
You
should not display many article on the homepage. It will increase the page load time. Ideally you
should be displaying only 5 articles or whatever count suits you, to reduce the
page load time.
Use
Post Summary:
Displaying
full articles on homepage can affect you page load time. You
should be displaying only the introductory paragraph on the homepage and the rest of the article on the
posts page.
Blog
Template:
You
should be using good quality blog templates. Templates with flash content and heavy images
will take more time to load. You should be avoiding such templates and use
simple/light templates for your blog.
Advertisement
units:
Almost
every blogger choose to display ads on their blogs to earn money online. But you should
consider using lesser ad units to minimize the page load time. You can also
delay ads to load after the page load using jQuery. Enclose the ads code in
jQuery ready function to load ads after the page load, like this:
$(document).ready(function(){Ad
codes Here});
Remove
unnecessary widgets
Many
bloggers install unnecessary plugins and widgets in their blog like separate social networks widgets for all
networks, stats counters or other flash based widgets. You should not be using
too many widgets and plug-in. You can add all
in one social network widget to
reduce the page load time.
External
Links
External
Hyperlinks degrade your sites performance and SEO. Many bloggers display their
visitors and other stats using the external hyperlinks. You need to avoid using
these kinds of external links.
I
hope I covered almost all points in this article. If you follow these tips, I
am sure you can reduce your page load time to a great extent. If you think I
missed any important point, you can mention it in the article; I will update it
in my post.
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