- Use a Good Web Hosting Plan
Visitors will flee and never return if your site is unstable, regardless of how fast it operates. Check up user reviews for hosting businesses and do your homework. Make careful to keep track of your traffic and resource utilization so you can change to a better hosting plan before your visitors notice how slow your site is.
- Enable Caching
The phrase "caching" refers to storing data in a temporary storage area. Because much of a page's information is already prepared and available, this enhances the site's performance. It also decreases the demand on your server's various system resources. You utilize Bluehost's caching plugins, which are designed to operate best in that context.
- Use a Content Delivery Network
The CDN is a global network of servers that allows you to replicate and store static elements/files on your website. Visitors receive these elements from a server that is closer to their physical location. Visitors from other regions of the world, for example, will have to wait a (relatively) lengthy time for your content to reach their browsers if your website is housed on a server in the United States.
- Optimize Your Images
Image size is becoming more of an issue for page speed as people want higher quality photos on websites. Most images can be decreased in size without a noticeable loss of quality using either graphic-editing programs or plugins.
Here are some key points to keep in mind:
- When feasible, use the JPEG format or PNG. BMP and TIFF files should be avoided.
- Crop your image to remove extraneous components and minimize its size.
- Reduce the size of your images. If your web page is just 600 pixels big, there's no purpose in submitting a 2000-pixel-wide image.
- Minify HTML, JavaScript, and CSS
CSS and JavaScript are becoming more and more important in today's websites and web apps. Minifying these text files is an excellent approach to reduce their size. In the code, this involves removing comments, excess spaces, extra line breaks, and block delimiters. It can also lower the amount of data that needs to be delivered, resulting in a faster page load time.
- Testing
This highly useful (free versions) performance analysis site will conduct a number of tests on your site to uncover performance issues and point you in the right direction for fixing them.
Each of these websites will conduct many tests and present the findings and scores in a variety of ways. They are often simple to comprehend and provide straightforward explanations and recommendations.
- Google PageSpeed Tools
- Pingdom
- GTMetrix
