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Website speed has a huge impact on user

experience, SEO, and conversion rates . Improving

website performance is essential for drawing

traffic to a website and keeping site visitors

engaged.

before any it's mainly depending on server uptime

if you using Tommy or Ricky that's good news but if not (i mean if using Johnny that's terrible)

I using Tommy and have good uptime what's next? ?

Use a CDN (content delivery network)

CDNs boost the speed of websites by caching

content in multiple locations around the world.

CDN caching servers are typically located closer

to end users than the host, or origin server.

Requests for content go to a CDN server instead

of all the way to the hosting server, which may

be thousands of miles and across multiple

autonomous networks from the user. Using a

CDN can result in a massive decrease in page

load times.

Optimize images

Images comprise a large percentage of Internet

traffic, and they often take the longest to load on

a website since image files tend to be larger in

size than HTML and CSS files. Luckily, image

load time can be reduced via image

optimization . Optimizing images typically

involves reducing the resolution, compressing

the files, and reducing their dimensions, and

many image optimizers and image compressors

are available for free online.

Minify CSS and JavaScript files

Minifying code means removing anything that a

computer doesn't need in order to understand

and carry out the code, including code

comments, whitespace, and unnecessary

semicolons. This makes CSS and JavaScript files

slightly smaller so that they load faster in the

browser and take up less bandwidth. On its own,

minification will result in only minimal speed

improvements. However, implemented along with

these other tips, it will result in better website

performance.

Reduce the number of HTTP requests if

possible

Most webpages will require browsers to make

multiple HTTP requests for various assets on the

page, including images, scripts, and CSS files. In

fact many webpages will require dozens of these

requests. Each request results in a round trip to

and from the server hosting the resource, which

can add to the overall load time for a webpage.

Additionally, with resources loaded from several

different providers, a problem with one of the

hosts could impact the webpage's ability to load

quickly, or at all.

Because of these potential issues, the total

number of assets each page needs to load

should be kept to a minimum. Also, a speed

test should help identify which HTTP requests

are taking the most time. For instance, if images

are causing a page to load slowly, developers

can look for a faster image hosting solution

(such as a CDN).

Use browser HTTP caching

The browser cache is a temporary storage

location where browsers save copies of static

files so that they can load recently visited

webpages much more quickly, instead of

needing to request the same content over and

over. Developers can instruct browsers to cache

elements of a webpage that will not change

often. Instructions for browser caching go in the

headers of HTTP responses from the hosting

server. This greatly reduces the amount of data

that the server needs to transfer to the browser,

shortening load times for users who frequently

visit certain pages.

Minimize the inclusion of external scripts

Any scripted webpage elements that are loaded

from somewhere else, such as external

commenting systems, CTA buttons, or lead-

generation popups, need to be loaded each time

a page loads. Depending on the size of the

script, these can slow a webpage down, or cause

the webpage to not load all at once (this is

called 'content jumping' or 'layout shifting' and

can be especially frustrating for mobile users).

Don't use redirects, if possible

A redirect is when visitors to one webpage get

forwarded to a different page instead. Redirects

add a few fractions of a second, or sometimes

even whole seconds, to page load time. When

building a performance-optimized website, every

second counts. Redirects are sometimes

unavoidable, but they shouldn't be used if not

necessary.

that's all

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