There's
no secret that the people are much fascinated by faster runner,
computer processor, fastest car, and even fastest website! That's
true. Undoubtedly. In the world of technology, in order to optimize
the website thru responsive web design is a must in order to achieve
high performance & top speed.
It
is especially true with the statement that 5th of the
world's population does access the Internet thru mobile devices only.
Due to the fact that the websites need the ability to quickly
compatible with the variety of devices. The companies which choose
not to go responsive, then the performance suffers a lot eventually.
It can be attributed to three things such as rendering performance,
programming interface and loading performance.
On
this blog, focusing on how to avoid the most popular blunders people
make, nonetheless, first of all, we want to introduce a few rules
that specify when an application can be called “foremost”.
To
Shed The Excessive Weight
With
a lot of codes, you must have a massive application, but you'll find
out that in most of the projects, one of the biggest problems of
yours is to end up with the images. They increase the HTTP requests
count and load time. In case, if you make use of a high-quality
transparent PNG files that it can be even more a headache. Until you
start to use of appropriate tools, learn how to organize image sets
as well. The very first step to organizing images is to properly
prepare them. However, it is easy to optimize JPEGs, and people often
complain that there is no way to optimize PNG images due to
decreasing the quality. Withal, have a look at the old concept, which
is “color quantizer” application. It is a great tool for
optimizing PNG images without losing quality, and the images will
look sharp after the correct optimization.
Minimize
The HTTP Requests
According
to sources- the load time of the web page is spent on downloading the
diverse parts of the pages, including stylesheets, images, scripts,
flash, etc. One of the quickest ways to enhance the website's speed
is to simplify the design-
- Use CSS rather than images whenever possible.
- To fuse multiple stylesheets into one.
- Reduce scripts & put them at the bottom of the page.
The
other way to optimize images is thru “sprites”. It allows you to
reduce the quantity of HTTP requests that is one of the key points
for the fast web page loading.
We
recommend you a plug-in, for sprite auto-generation, use SASS and
Compass. That is also called “easy spirits”, and it is quite
easier. This plug-in will help you not only increase the speed of the
website, but to elevate the productivity.
Keep
Things Simple
In
case, if you are using less popular web browsers such as IE8
(Internet Explorer 8)or lower or other outdated browsers, then you
are merely aggravating your work, the performance of web, and patched
places that are becoming heavier, till they
become unbearable. Whilst IE8 is still in the marketplace, most of
the users & developers will be happier in order see default web
components, which perform faster. It will also help you out to save
money.
Bear
in mind that you should pick the “web fonts” carefully. Remember,
in order to limit font families & variations, you can lessen the
web loading time by only using essential fonts, which are commonly
used.
The
Essentials Of Optimizations
Staying
updated with the performance of the website, bear in mind the
following pivotal tips-
- Minify the CSS files & reduce file quantity to the minimum.
- Do not use the @import rule in the CSS files.
- JavaScript files should be loaded before closing the body tag.
- Load the CSS files only in the Head Tag as soon as possible.
Reduce The Server Response Time
Your
target must be a server response time less than 200 milliseconds. If
you do follow the tips, you are about to achieve your goals.
Enable
Browser Caching
If
you visit the website, the elements on the page that you visit that
are stored on the hard drive in a cache or a temporary storage. And
the next time you visit the website, your web browser can load the
page without having to send another HTTP request to the server.
Suppose,
someone visits the website very first time, it must be downloaded the
HTML document, JavaScript files, stylesheets & images before
being able to use your web page. It may be as of 30 components &
2.4 seconds.
When
the page has been loaded and the different components which are
stored in the user's cache, and only a few components needs to be
downloaded for subsequent visits. All cacheable resources, including
image files, JS & CSS files, PDFs, media files, etc., set expires
time to a minimum of one week, and preferably up to 1 year in the
future.
Enable
Compression
The
larger web pages are often times 100kb and more, resulting they are
bulky and slow to download. One of the best ways to speed up the load
time is to zip them, and the technique is called as compression. By
compressing, it reduces the bandwidth of your pages, therefore, by
reducing HTTP response. There's a tool called as “Gzip”.
Prioritize
above-the-fold Content
We
just recommend you that you use only one CSS stylesheet & no
inline CSS- there is one caution that you need to consider. You can
improve user-experience by having above-the-fold load faster even the
rest pages takes a few seconds to load.
Wrapping
Up
Undoubtedly,
some of these tips are easy to implement, however, there are a few
advanced tactics, which can be intimidating if you ain't technically
inclined.
