09/30/2019
>> How to improve Website Speed > A website creates the first impression of a business.
High performing websites are as important as having good looking ones.
Page load times have a substantial impact on sales and marketing.
Here are some best practice steps that you can take in order to speed up your site:
1. Use a fast web server or proxy server.
A decent hosting plan can have unexpected results when it comes to fast loading times.
The type of server is also massively important, currently the fastest options for websites are servers using OpenLiteSpeed technology combined with their own caching engine for most sites.
2. Enable Caching
A strong caching engine will dramatically decrease loading times even for uncached pages.
When using LiteSpeed, LSCache engine is the perfect fit for both Wordpress and Magento sites.
There are a myriad of other caching engines that do a great job, just make sure you have something installed.
3. Reduce the DNS lookup time
This is again tied to your hosting and their DNS servers.
Decent hosting will have short DNS lookup times resolving this issue right off the bat.
4. Database table and query optimization
Problems within the DB are usually present in sites that don’t use popular CMS’s as Wordpress or Magento, even so, these CMS’s may still run into DB issues if the platforms are old.
We suggest running scripts and plugins that optimize DB’s and tables in order to speed up the site.
This will not have a major impact unless there are sever problems that are drastically hindering the usability of the website.
5. Enable file compression
Many caching engines do this but aditionally you can run gzip file compressions on all images, html and javascrip codes.
This does wonders and can be placed within your .htaccess file.
6. Audit the plugins and addons
Plugin and extension conflicts are always a pain.
If your site’s performance is hindered, make sure you disable and enable each extension manually and look for obvious improvements within performance when certain ones are disabled.
Once you identify the culprit, replace it or just get rid of it.
>> Improving your website’s speed can be challenging, but if done well, it can drastically decrease bounce rate and increase sales and lead generation.
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