What methods would you apply for decreasing the loading time of a website?

[cleanetic]

What methods would you apply for decreasing the loading time of a website?

[tuxandrew]

1. Install and enable any caching plugins to increase the loading speed.
2. Alternately install varnish cache in front of your webserver. # if needed
Or use any performance booting web servers like Litespeed webserver, Nginx etc.
3. Tweak the webserver and database configuration with optimum values.
4. Check the application code to reduce delay.
5. Optimize huge images and external links in websites to reduce the loading time.
6. Check hardware performance and take necessary measures to upgrade the resources.
7. Check the website with a code expert and optimize, if there is any unwanted/unoptimized plugins on your website hogging the resources
8. You can take a review of your website through the https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/ and do revisions accordingly.

These are general tips for optimization but you should examine the server as well as website and decide which one suits the best.

[dennis123]

Hi Friends,

The following are some tips for decreasing your web page loading times.

• Check the Current Speed of the Website.
• Optimize Your Images.
• Don't Scale Down Images.
• Compress and Optimize Your Content.
• Put Stylesheet References at the Top.
• Put Script References at the Bottom.
• Place JavaScript and CSS in External Files.

[ritesh3592]

-Minimize HTTP requests
-Minify and combine files
-Use asynchronous loading for CSS and JavaScript files
-Defer JavaScript loading
-Minimize time to first byte
-Reduce server response time
-Choose the right hosting option for your needs

[propertyseo]

The following are some tips for decreasing your web page loading times.

1) Use Static Text Wherever You Can
2) Minimize HTTP Requests
3) Optimize Your Images
4) Utilize Browser Caching
5) Minify HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
6) Reduce 301 Redirects
7) Avoid Using a large number of Plugins
8) Enable compression
9) Choose above-the-fold content wisely
10) Use a good coded & Clean designed theme

[ellenwilson]

I Apply the following things to decrease the loading time of website
a) Best hosting
b) Low weight images
c) Reduce 301 redirects

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[jayam]

The following are some tips for decreasing your web page loading times:

1.Check the Current Speed of the Website.
2.Optimize Your Images.
3.Don't Scale Down Images.
4.Compress and Optimize Your Content.
5.Put Stylesheet References at the Top.
6.Put Script References at the Bottom.
7.Place JavaScript and CSS in External Files.

[jayam]

Use Static Text Wherever You Can. This is the most important thing that you can do to decrease web page load time. ...
Minimize HTTP Requests. ...
Optimize Your Images. ...
Utilize Browser Caching. ...
Minify HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. ...
Reduce 301 Redirects. ...