No matter how good the design and content of your website is, all your efforts can be wasted if the opening speed is low. Because a site that opens slowly can cause you to lose them before you can even reach your customers. We don't want that to happen. Speed is also important for SEO (search engine optimization). It helps you climb higher ranks in the search engine. As a result, your conversion rate increases and you have more satisfied customers.
Don't let your efforts go to waste due to a slow website! In this article, we will share acceleration methods with wordpress or for specially coded websites.
Let's start by measuring your website speed. There are several different tools that you can use for this.
The three tools we use the most are as follows:
Google pagespeed insights:
If you are one of those who cannot be trusted without a “brand”, google's own site speed measurement tool may be for you. The tool, which also offers recommendations for mobile and desktop sites, provides free service.
Gtmetrix:
It is one of the most popular sites in site speed measurement. If your site is slow, it gives detailed advice on how you can speed it up.
Pingdom:
Another popular analysis tool is pingdom. You can choose which server in the region to analyze from. Those who want a more colorful design will most likely like this tool more.
If you wish, you can get reports from all of these tools and compare them. They will draw more or less the same conclusions, but there is no harm from too much knowledge, right?
If you've measured your site speed, it's time to accelerate.
Here's how to speed up your site in 5 easy steps:
It is important how good the hosting company that makes up the infrastructure of your site is. Take good stock of the plans offered to you. Keep in mind that the fee you will pay at this stage will have high returns for you.
Images, css files, scripts on your page make up 80% of the loading time of your site. The fewer http requests, the faster your site will load. If you right-click on the site in your Chrome browser and say “review”, you can see http requests in the “network” tab. You can review the size of the requests (size) and the upload time (time). To reduce their number, you can reduce their size or get rid of these files if they are unnecessary.
High-quality visuals will appeal to your customers, but they can weigh heavily on your website. By compressing the images you use, reducing their size,. Png or. You can increase your upload speed by using jpeg format.
The server of your site is almost transmitted from wherever it is entered into your site, data is transferred from that server. With Cdn, the files on your site are distributed to servers at different points. Visitors connect to your site from the server closest to their location. In short, your site's server is everywhere and thus the loading speed of the site is increased.
When the cache is enabled, the elements of your site are stored in temporary storage on the visitors' computer. Thus, when they come back to your site, the files will not be loaded again and the upload speed will be increased. If your site is installed with wordpress, you can enable caching with a plugin. If not, coding privately will be a bit more complicated. In either case, we recommend that you check with the provider you are hosting. They will share with you the method that best suits their infrastructure and your site.
If you have not been able to increase your site speed with these methods, you may need to make more extensive changes. For this, we recommend that you talk to your hosting provider or developer. Once you have made your optimizations, you can leave your customers alone with your site so that they can benefit from the experience you offer.
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