How to decrease the loading time of a website?

[blackmagicislam]

How to decrease the loading time of a website?

[Ankit240]

Digg out the reason which site elements takes time to load you can get there detailed report from the free tools like google page insights, GT metrix, Pindom and much more, the general issues of load time are JavaScript/CSS errors, Image compression issue and leverage browser caching.

[kanetailor]

Check the Current Speed of the Website
Don’t Scale Down Images
Put Script References at the Bottom
Minimize HTTP Requests

[cranberry]

Are you running a wordpress based website? If yes, just install WP Super Cache plugin.

[Klara]

*scale Images and videos
*Avoid unnecessary plug-ins
*Clean Up Your Database
*Minimize HTTP Requests

[sastabpo]

You can use the external style sheets, minimum images, decrease the file size of the images that we use, without compromising on the quality and use the CSS sprites to regulate the HTTP requests.

[dineshsma]

Try using GTmetrix. It shows the waterfall of all request made while loading the page. You can check which request is causing the delay and optimize your website accordingly.

Few common things that can speedup:
- Use server side cache
- Use maxCDN to
- Use minified version of JS & CSS files.
- Use Leverage browser cache using mod_expire directives in htaccess file.