7 - Migrate to a Faster Web Host

If after using the above tips but you are yet to see any improvements, then it's time to migrate to a faster web hosting service. This opens you up to 2 different options which could be changing your web hosting provider or upgrading your hosting plan.

By now, you should already know if your web host provider is the best for your current hosting needs.

Some web hosts are better suited for a particular kind of industry or traffic needs while you may have outgrown their usefulness. So if you find yourself in such a situation, you just need to find a web host that is better suited for your current and future hosting needs.

It could also be a need to upgrade your web hosting plan from shared hosting to a more robust VPS plan.

Shared hosting plans are cheaper but they expose your website to certain risks that may be inherited from the other websites sharing the same server.

On the other hand, a VPS hosting plan is more expensive but offers greater security and customization. You can choose any of the migration solutions that your website needs for the moment.

Conclusion

Page load speed is a vital component of your site's SEO that affect both user experience and also your search ranking.

If users perceive your page to be slow in loading, you are likely to experience a higher bounce rate than a faster loading one. The acceptable load speed for a web page is 3 seconds and anything slower than that is classified as "slow".

This guide offers 7 helpful tips that you can immediately act on to improve the load speed of your pages. You will also need to measure the speed improvements along the way and for that, Google Page Insights will suffice.

It's a free tool from Google that you could use for analyzing the content of your page and generating ideas that will improve its speed.

By following the tips in this guide, you will increase the load speed of your web pages, improve user experience and also boost your SEO.