Websites-
Slow & Steady Surely Cannot Win The Race!
Slow
websites do not merely frustrate & deter the visitors,
nevertheless, these kind of websites also banish from the search
engine rankings. Here, we are going to explain some pivotal things
that you can do a lot of things outside of the website for speeding
up the performance of your website.
In
this blog, we are going to outline the essential steps in order to
ensure that you can speed up your website-
The
speed of the website is “usability” or usefulness- this is
something one of the major parts.
What
does really mean by the “fast speed” of the website? Loading
time & Processing time of the website is one of the
major things that are actually embraced by the fast speed of the
website.
When
it comes to “Loading time” of the website, then it
takes all the information to download the users' devices. Primarily,
it is affected by the speed of internet connection, as well as the
actual size of the files.
When
we talk about “Processing time”,
once the files are downloaded, the files have to be processed &
provided by the browser, the process depends upon how well the code
is written. The only thing that you can control is “the coding
part” that stands out your website among your rivals.
Introducing
Focal Things
(In
order to enhance the pace of the website)
-
JavaScript
-
CSS
-
Images & Compression
JavaScript
When
it comes to “JavaScript” then it can be really slow, especially,
JavaScript can have much more impact on the part of “processing”
as compared to “CSS”. In order to achieve insignificant things,
JavaScript can get exponentially heavier in terms of file sizes.
Much
slower speed is not at all the fault of the language. Sometimes, it
does important to use libraries like JQuery or JavaScript Plugins to
get things done. Since these plugins & frameworks come up with
additional options as well as features that you may never use as a
non developer.
There's
also one term i.e. bandwidth-stealing that you should also
aware of that in order to speed up the website.
When
we dive into the concept more deeply, then, in addition, plugins
might not work all together as in they might slow each other down or
one might stop another from working, eventually.
If
you really want to enhance the speed of the website, then here are
the things that you must have a look:
Include
the JavaScript (JS) file at the bottom of the Web page:
JS files can slow
down by stopping the web browser from providing the HTML before they
are loaded. The next thing, improve the user's experience, as well as
lessen up the perceived loading time in order to link to those
external files at the bottom of the web page that is right before the
tag.
Avoid
Frameworks: While designing the
full-fledged apps, then you can ignore the part i.e. Avoid
frameworks. If not, then a light-weight, good & flexible
framework can give developers a platform.
Whether
it is small-sized or large-sized websites that include JS frameworks
that may be used excessively, then on this kind of websites, JS
mostly uses in the back-end of the CMS for administrating content.
When we come to “front-end” then you may have an image slider.
The content does not need to look fancy & animated. JS should be
reserved for improving the user experience.
However,
all frameworks are same, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP,
Python, etc. While choosing a framework or plugin for a project, then
it is imp. to ask yourself if you are going to pick one of the
frameworks due to its features.
It
would be better if you Hire a professional developer:
It
is always a great idea to hire a professional developer if you are
not from the niche of coding. It would be cheaper in cost to hire
someone who has a profound knowledge of it. If the things go
drastically horribly wrong, then hire a developer since they would
have much experience to solve the issues & resolve them. Most
pivotal, they know very well to work with less code. Due to fewer
code runs, as well as runs faster.
CSS
(Cascading Style Sheets)
It
matters a lot how fast your website runs on the user's laptop,
desktop, tablet or phone. It is important that the way CSS has
written, it effects on how fast a particular device to display the
web pages.
In
order to optimize the website, then it is better to pick CSS to start
with.
CSS
Preprocessors
Use
CSS Preprocessors such as LESS, SASS & Stylus. Surely, if you use
them in a wrong way, then you can generate larger stylesheets as you
intended. However, the potential advantages are worth it.
For
instance, if you want to lessen the number of HTTP requests that is
made to the server, including all resets, frameworks into one LESS
file. If it compiles, then it will all be in a single stylesheet. In
addition, most preprocessors offer the options to output all CSS in
minified form.
In
this way, you can use diverse files as you need for purposes of code
organization without affecting the file size.
Images
In
any content driven website, the biggest thing is “images”. They
tend to be bulky and gear the speed like hell if it would not be
optimized.
With
retina screens, forcing to use bigger the images if you want things
to look on every device. The problem is not getting easier to solve.
The worst can be that it is an issue to forget about until the end up
spending more than intended Bandwidth. When each byte counts, this is
something that you can't afford to forget.
Responsive
Images
How
can you save the bandwidth? It is where one turn to the element &
the image set the property. These are comparatively new as well as
not fully supported, nevertheless, allowing browsers in order to pick
the appropriate image size for the device.
Opt
For The Right Format
Numerous
image sizes are there in order to pick the right format. Use the
following format:
For
instance, for complex graphics use JPEG format, for simple graphics
uses SVG or PNG format. GIF is for animation.
