8 Major ways to reduce blog loading time
Blog loading time is one essential thing you should notice on your blog, 89 percent of Internet Explorers and blog visitors are too impatient to wait for slow loading blogs and websites before minding on to other fast blogs thus the blogger losses great visitors and customers just because of his/her blog loads too slow
Reducing blog loading time have a great impact on your blog SEO... So you can't afford to miss this, To tackle such thing I'll giving you some great tips on how to make your blog and websites faster when it loads
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Make sure you read to the end and make use of every said point in this article
1) LIMIT HOMEPAGE POSTS
the number of posts you show on your blog homepage strongly affects your blog loading time,in simple calculation that the higher is the number of post on home page will take a long time to load,
So don't add to much posts to your homepage
2) INVEST IN A BETTER TEMPLATE
Your blog template and designs really matters to your blog,it affects your blog loading time and SEO,nice blog template makes visitors stay more on blogs, Blogger and WordPress has different types of template to choose from but while choosing try to get a fast loading template
Don't depend on free templates because every free thing comes with a price to pay, most of those free templates are not well written and contains unwanted codes
3)DON'T USE LARGER BACKGROUND IMAGE SIZE
background images are cool for blogs and it enhances it beauty but just before you choose any picture for your blog background
Check the image size, in simple calculation,the bigger your background picture the longer it will take for your blog to load
4) REDUCE POST PICTURES SIZE
Most times we just upload images to your post without being conscious of it size, some images gotten from Stock images have a bigger size and if uploaded directly... It reduces blog loading time...
There many type of image format but Generally i am used to with the ".png ",
".jpg", ".gif" format
So to avoid slow loading you should edit your images using photo editing software like photoshop then choose the one with the lowest size
Useful tools for compressing images
!!) avoid too many images on posts
5) DON'T USE TOO MUCH ADVERTISMENT
Monitizing blogs is good but having too much ads will definitely affect your blog loading times cause most of these ads contains javascript and iframe codes which makes blog loading slower
6) REMOVE UNNECESSARY CSS AND JAVASCRIPT CODE
Over to my likes in web designing, Sometimes we may want to override existing css codes and JavaScript with new ones,though it works even without removing the former one but it's essential to remove the unwanted codes so has to increase loading time of your blog
7) DELETE UNNECESSARY WIDGETS
take note... Widgets should not just on our blog unless they serve a particular purpose, you shouldn't keep unnessarry widgets and plugins on your blog to increase loading time
8) USE JUMP BREAK IN BLOGGER TO REDUCE HOMEPAGE LOADING TIME
Always use jumpbreak on your blog to display only little of the information on your article on your homepage
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Add unto page break with read more and post thumbnail for blogger
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Update:-check your blog loading time on waplordcrib click here to check your blog loading time
Make sure you read to the end and make use of every said point in this article
1) LIMIT HOMEPAGE POSTS
the number of posts you show on your blog homepage strongly affects your blog loading time,in simple calculation that the higher is the number of post on home page will take a long time to load,
So don't add to much posts to your homepage
To reduce homepage post for blogger
Login to blogger dashboard> Settings> Post and comment > Under post field, write a number of post that you want to show on home page and you're good to go
For WordPress go to Settings > Reading in your WordPress dashboard and set the required number there.
2) INVEST IN A BETTER TEMPLATE
Your blog template and designs really matters to your blog,it affects your blog loading time and SEO,nice blog template makes visitors stay more on blogs, Blogger and WordPress has different types of template to choose from but while choosing try to get a fast loading template
Don't depend on free templates because every free thing comes with a price to pay, most of those free templates are not well written and contains unwanted codes
If you like my blogger template and you want to purchase it.... Email me on Olaitanmichael94@gmail.comFOR SERIOUS BLOGGERS ONLY
3)DON'T USE LARGER BACKGROUND IMAGE SIZE
background images are cool for blogs and it enhances it beauty but just before you choose any picture for your blog background
Check the image size, in simple calculation,the bigger your background picture the longer it will take for your blog to load
4) REDUCE POST PICTURES SIZE
Most times we just upload images to your post without being conscious of it size, some images gotten from Stock images have a bigger size and if uploaded directly... It reduces blog loading time...
There many type of image format but Generally i am used to with the ".png ",
".jpg", ".gif" format
So to avoid slow loading you should edit your images using photo editing software like photoshop then choose the one with the lowest size
Useful tools for compressing images
- Decrease the size of the images using smush it plugin - WordPress
- Compress your png files using TinyPNG that is the best tool to compress the images without the loss of quality.
- Use the WordPress plugin called lazy load that will conditionally load images when the reader scrolls to the bottom of the blog rather than load all the images at once.
!!) avoid too many images on posts
5) DON'T USE TOO MUCH ADVERTISMENT
Monitizing blogs is good but having too much ads will definitely affect your blog loading times cause most of these ads contains javascript and iframe codes which makes blog loading slower
6) REMOVE UNNECESSARY CSS AND JAVASCRIPT CODE
Over to my likes in web designing, Sometimes we may want to override existing css codes and JavaScript with new ones,though it works even without removing the former one but it's essential to remove the unwanted codes so has to increase loading time of your blog
7) DELETE UNNECESSARY WIDGETS
take note... Widgets should not just on our blog unless they serve a particular purpose, you shouldn't keep unnessarry widgets and plugins on your blog to increase loading time
8) USE JUMP BREAK IN BLOGGER TO REDUCE HOMEPAGE LOADING TIME
Always use jumpbreak on your blog to display only little of the information on your article on your homepage
This blog template has auto page break
Add unto page break with read more and post thumbnail for blogger
Over to you
How did you see this article? If it helps please comment
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