17/09/2019
10 Tips To Improve Your Site Performance
1. Organize the structure of your HTML document
HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the standard markup language structure of web content. It allows you to create webpages with headings, paragraphs, lists and other text organizing features. Search engines use their web crawlers to read and access web pages. When it comes to handling with HTML, you should construct and write your code and tags organized and incisive. It is important to check your HTML elements and other included resources located inside the head of the document to make sure they're correctly well-optimized.
2. Optimize CSS
CSS (Cascading Style Sheet), transform your HTML content into a lively document. It requires an HTTP request from the server to return a CSS file. If you have several external style sheets, this will require your browser to load numerous files at once. Thus, slowing your website's load time. You can either reduce your CSS code or use an HTTP combiner to reduce the size and number of requests.
3. Reduce HTTP requests
Several parts of your webpage like stylesheets, scripts and images are slowing your site down. HTTP request transmits your webpage data over the web. So the more components of your page have, the longer it will take to load and render each element of your page.
4. Minify your codes
Removing unnecessary unused code, removing HTML comments and cutting variable names will decrease your page size and speed up load time. When styling your site using CSS, most likely you use indention and comments to keep your code concise and clean, but these spaces add extra bytes to your document. So you'll still need to trim down the bytes of your file, or you can use any minification tool to help you minify your CSS, JS and HTML files.
5. Use CDN and caching
You can improve the performance of your website by using a CDN (Content Delivery Network), it provides high availability and performance by distributing the service spatially relative to the end-users. It links your static content to an extended network of servers worldwide and allowing your site to load data from the nearest server. Setting up browser caching allows you to store certain files from your website, with its cache it will be delivered faster and minimal page load.
6. Minify and compress your files
It's not only the code that is required to be minified to speed up your site but also you need to minify and compress all of your files. Minify your file by removing any unnecessary formatting, code comments, large white spaces, and unused functions to reduce the size of your files and fewer HTTP requests for a browser to render the page.
7. Optimize your images
Having high-quality images, makes your website look more beautiful and appealing. But without proper optimization, it can weigh several megabytes and can slow down the rendering process of your site. You need to reduce the file size by image compression, it minimizes the size bytes without lowering the quality of an image. It allows you to store more images and save memory space while maintaining the quality of the image.
8. Reduce the number of installed plugins you use on your site
Whenever you're using a CMS, you can't help it not to use plugins. Plugins provide features need for your website. It also helps you minimize messing a lot of code when adding functionality on your site. They're easy to install and this makes it easy for you to continue installing plugins without considering the negative aspect of it. Unfortunately, they can slow down your site's performance. If you're installing a plugin just only you want to change your image to thumbnail size or create a three-column section on your page, much better to use CSS and HTML. Deactivate any unnecessary plugin to improve your site speed.
9. Minimize external scripts
As we mentioned earlier, the fewer components of your webpage have, the fewer requests your site makes and the fast your page will load. Relying too much on external scripts will affect your page load. There are common third-party integrations that you might have running on your website that you didn't notice. You can identify all of the external scripts by opening the network tab in the Developers' Tool. If you have any concern about your site performance then you should remove any unnecessary features that are slowing down your site.
10. Reduce DNS lookups
DNS (Domain Name System) is the backbone of the internet which maintains records to which domain name maps to which IP address. It helps us avoid memorizing IP addresses instead we use domain names to search for a specific address. DNS lookups take a lot of time to look up the IP address of a hostname. To reduce DNS lookups, you could use a fast DNS service, optimize DNS caching or reducing the number of unique hostnames to increase site speed and response time.
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