Is Your Website Running Fast Enough?

[djbaxter]

Is Your Website Running Fast Enough?
A Small Orange
October 12, 2015

When it comes to your website’s speed, there’s no such thing as too fast. Sites with quick load times are not only favored by online users, they’re ranked higher by search engines like Google and Bing. Your website should completely load within three seconds, but really, you want to aim for under two. How can you check your website’s speed? Pingdom.com and GTmetrix.com can quickly show how your site stacks up.

If your site isn’t running as fast as it should, there are a couple of things you can do. You can optimize your images, download a caching tool, minimize redirects, eliminate error pages, and turn off plugins you don’t use. If your website has slowly been collecting a lot of “stuff” over the years (search bars, banners, buttons, and forms), it may be time to implement a more streamlined design. You should also do a virus scan to make sure you don’t have any unwelcome visitors bunking up on your pages.

If after taking these steps, your website still isn’t running as fast as it should, you may want to contact your web hosting company’s technical support team. They may be able to identify a problem you’re unable to see, or it may be time to increase your bandwidth.

 

[glasseslit]

Is Your Website Running Fast Enough?
A Small Orange
October 12, 2015

When it comes to your website’s speed, there’s no such thing as too fast. Sites with quick load times are not only favored by online users, they’re ranked higher by search engines like Google and Bing. Your website should completely load within three seconds, but really, you want to aim for under two. How can you check your website’s speed? Pingdom.com and GTmetrix.com can quickly show how your site stacks up.

If your site isn’t running as fast as it should, there are a couple of things you can do. You can optimize your images, download a caching tool, minimize redirects, eliminate error pages, and turn off plugins you don’t use. If your website has slowly been collecting a lot of “stuff” over the years (search bars, banners, buttons, and forms), it may be time to implement a more streamlined design. You should also do a virus scan to make sure you don’t have any unwelcome visitors bunking up on your pages.

If after taking these steps, your website still isn’t running as fast as it should, you may want to contact your web hosting company’s technical support team. They may be able to identify a problem you’re unable to see, or it may be time to increase your bandwidth.

Thank you! help a lot!

 

[kendosspc]

Hey, i've been trying to improve my website speed lately. I run using wordpress so used a couple of plugins designed to imrpove speed. The speed has now improved quite a bit as it was horrific. However i get a funny loading thing just before site fully loads. Any suggestions or tips?

Thanks for your help

 

[djbaxter]

You'll need to provide details about that "funny loading thing".

What specific plugins are you using?


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[kendosspc]

Hey thanks for the quick reply. If you are able to check my site {link removed} on a desktop computer you'll see what i mean.

 

[djbaxter]

If you need to give me or any other member a link, please send it via private message (PM).

Per our Forum Rules, unless otherwise stated, links to your own site(s) are not allowed in forum posts.

It looks to me like your page is loading before your CSS file, or possibly before the theme is fully downloaded.

You haven't told me what plugins you installed to try to speed up page loads.

 

[kendosspc]

ah ok sorry about the link issue. I'll check which plug ins it was later today for you. Cheers for the advice

 

[mobilegambler]

Hello,
My name is Ervin, i'm a new member on this forum
I have a new site about best mobile casinos, i use wordpress and i reached the best performance what i could 79 mobile/92 desktop using plugins W3 total cache on google page speed test , but there are appearing fonts.googleapis which i should fix - i tray to resolve plugins but not working

have you any suggestion how can i fix this?

 

[djbaxter]

Sorry. What do you mean by "there are appearing fonts.googleapis"?

Are you getting an error? Or is Google saying that's slowing down your website?


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[mobilegambler]

google page speed test says i should fix :
Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold content
Optimize CSS Delivery of the following:


http://fonts.googleapis.com/…amily=Play%3Aregular%2Cbold&v1&ver=4.3.1

i tried to disable google fonts with wordpress plugins but none of them is not working

 

[djbaxter]

And this is a Wordpress site, right? Do you actually need Google Fonts? Try deactivating that plugin and check your site speed again with Google Speed Test.


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[Sorident]

Yes, Google does that, actually. I found out too after using a special font for one of my websites, but I keep using it, as it adds a little value to the user, especially on tablets since they have a small font database and always ended up using Arial. It's funny that using Google fonts actually gets your score lower on Google PageSpeed Insights, since I would imagine it was well optimized. One other thing that lowers your score is Google Analytics. Oh, and google plus badges, too. Imagine that.

For the Google font to be loaded later,you can import it in CSS and have the css loaded to the bottom of the http code (close to the end of the body), after most of the content is loaded. It worked for me on the mobile version. The downside is that on slow connections, the page style will load later, making the page look uglier for a moment.

 

[djbaxter]

No, sorry, per our Forum Rules, you are not allowed links to your own site in posts unless otherwise stated.

But you're correct about Google Fonts (and Analytics but at least that provides useful information).

I don't use Google fonts on any of my sites. There are enough other fonts to create good looking and functional pages. I just don't see it as necessary and with the increasing importance of mobile devices it's just one more thing to slow down your page and cause the mobile surfer to click away to another site.

 

[fitness_sports]

Great info , thax

 

[PrettyPartea]

I would also recommend choosing a good hosting company. Sometimes it's better to pay more for good service After many troubles with my previous hosting company I migrate my website to faster host company and the diffrence in speed is huge.

 

[contentpimp]

I would also recommend choosing a good hosting company. Sometimes it's better to pay more for good service After many troubles with my previous hosting company I migrate my website to faster host company and the diffrence in speed is huge.

Totally agree with you, it's about considering the quality not the quantity of the hosting company. Besides, at the end of the day, it will pay back knowing it provides faster service.

 

[profitmakernowcom]

Want to share personal experience to further DJ Baxter's explanation. I use a image stock provider that is compatible with my web builder. I found out on photoshop that my images were thousands of pixels wide and long. Photoshop with a simple 60 second tool helped me to minimize the images to device sizes of my viewers. I painstakingly resized or cropped all of my images on all my websites.This added needed storage space on my devices, but my load time became lightning fast.