(Just joking!) But today we are talking about speed on your website, one of the most important factors some businesses just don't think about very often. Optimise your website for speed Okay, so, you're browsing the web and come across a website of interest. You click on the link, eager to see what they have to offer. Meanwhile you're making yourself a coffee, get your breakfast ready, but by now the page really should have loaded... It hasn't, so you click away from it. This scenario is a bit over the top, I know, but the essence is clear: we want fast access to website content. We don't have unlimited time to spare. Slow loading websites will lose you customers and get your website penalised in search results. Your website needs to load within a few seconds. To achieve this it might be necessary to hire someone, but a few things you can easily do yourself. Less is more 1. Reducing the size of your images is a really important one Don’t upload images straight from your camera. Large, high resolution images will make your pages larger and slower to load. Use a free image editing tool such as Adobe Express to compress your images. Size is a big one, too (pun intended). Resize your images wherever you can so you are not loading larger images than necessary. 2. Reduce the number of plugins you have installed It’s easy to end up with lots of plugins installed, but are they all actually necessary? If you are not using some of them, remove them. The less plugins you have running, the quicker your site will load. 3. Install a new, faster loading theme Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, your website will still be slow to load. This could be because of the theme you have installed. Older themes are not optimised to modern requirements, so if your theme is more than two years old, it is probably time for an upgrade. Summary I would recommend to tackle the easy things first. Some things are quite simple and straightforward and will help a lot with gaining site speed. Once you have sorted these, you can get your hands dirty in the more difficult processes, or if needed, hire someone to do it for you. Here are three things I could help you with:
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