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Tips to Speed up a Website

Upping the speed of a website:

I remember reading/ studying Yahoo's webmaster guidelines heavily for the last major update I did to our company's website. It was a bit of an eye opener, realising that search engines now use page speed as a ranking factor (okay one of 200 factors, but still a ranking factor none the less):

To surmize (sorry, this is off the top of my head):

1) Use sprites and your CSS for common images
2) mod the htaccess file to have the end-users computer cache common files (css, jpg, gif, js)
3) serve .zip files
4) ensure all files are less than 12k in size
5) Use a CDN to serve common files such as images, css file, javascript and non php stuff.
6) Combine scripts into one file
7) load javascripts last- they choke up a browser, increasing load times.
8 ) Set an expiry date for static files (then if the user returns to your website and hasn't emptied their cache, it'll load faster)

Remember, many browsers can only handle 6 concrrent uploads from one server, so using 2 server to load a website can provide up to 12 concurrent uploads. Older browsers are even worse, with only 3 concurrent uploads from each server.

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Speed is matter

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search engines now use page speed as a ranking factor

Agree with that. Currently I even not yet turning on the page cache for the site but I guess its still enough.

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Thanks mate,, speed is

Thanks mate,, speed is important !

i found an awesome tool for speedup site :
1. minify js and css http://code.google.com/p/minify/
2. css js booster https://github.com/Schepp/CSS-JS-Booster

that is good tool to improve site speed ,, hope its useful

for htaccess ,, i use from hmtl5 boilerplate http://html5boilerplate.com/

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Neil Patel wrote a

Neil Patel wrote a comprehensive guide to optimize our website site speed and other SEO tutorial. Optimize site speed I've only read 3 chapters, but it is very good

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Dan wrote:

Dan wrote:
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search engines now use page speed as a ranking factor

Agree with that. Currently I even not yet turning on the page cache for the site but I guess its still enough.

what percentage of the speed of the content?

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Thanks for you sharing,

Thanks for you sharing,

some blogs I visit, when they put a text ad or a flash, though the optimization was implemented, it is still accessible even slower themes they use is responsive themes ..

is there any solution for this case?

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richardtj wrote:

richardtj wrote:

Upping the speed of a website:

I remember reading/ studying Yahoo's webmaster guidelines heavily for the last major update I did to our company's website. It was a bit of an eye opener, realising that search engines now use page speed as a ranking factor (okay one of 200 factors, but still a ranking factor none the less):

To surmize (sorry, this is off the top of my head):

1) Use sprites and your CSS for common images
2) mod the htaccess file to have the end-users computer cache common files (css, jpg, gif, js)
3) serve .zip files
4) ensure all files are less than 12k in size
5) Use a CDN to serve common files such as images, css file, javascript and non php stuff.
6) Combine scripts into one file
7) load javascripts last- they choke up a browser, increasing load times.
8 ) Set an expiry date for static files (then if the user returns to your website and hasn't emptied their cache, it'll load faster)

Remember, many browsers can only handle 6 concrrent uploads from one server, so using 2 server to load a website can provide up to 12 concurrent uploads. Older browsers are even worse, with only 3 concurrent uploads from each server.

thanks for tips,..i want to ask..what cdn is ?.

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Quest

I still do not understand about how to speed up the website, I've kept the picture on the storage media and stuck my webiste when needed, but my website still has a low speed

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and one more.. Host the

and one more.. Host the Images in Picassa Web... Smile

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It's maybe faster is better.

It's maybe faster is better. Now everyone, including search engine prefer to rank the faster one as the higher position on their SERP.

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Cool

Yeah...absolutely agree. Page speed is one of the important items in the SERP battle. I usually just use CloudFlare, quite helpful in improving page speed.

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