Top 7 Ways to Increase Your Page Load Speed

Here are the top seven ways to boost your page load speed:

1 - Improve Page Speed with a CDN

A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a service that uses geographically dispersed servers to deliver web resources to websites. The servers are designed to deliver resources such as images, videos, CSS.

CDN servers also take advantage of the closeness of its servers to the physical location of the web visitors.

For instance, you have a visitor from Zurich who just clicked on your website URL. The service locates the server that is closest to Zurich and uses it to deliver the images and other resources to the web visitor.

Some examples of CDN service providers include Cloudflare and StackPath. However, it is ideal to use a CDN service only when you've got lots of images to deal with. That's the only way to justify your investment in a Content Delivery Network service.

2 - Make Use of Caching

Caching is a mechanism that enables servers to create static versions of dynamic pages to deliver to web visitors. It's a great way of processing web pages faster while using fewer server resources to get it done.

If you are using WordPress for your site or blog, then you will need to download and install a caching plugin. These WordPress cache plugins, such as WP-Rocket and WP Super Cache, are pretty easy to set up and start using even for newbies.

3 - Optimize Your Images

Images are very important for improving user experience on your site and yet they reduce page speed if not optimized. HD quality images can be very large in size thereby increasing the time it takes for your page to load.

One way of dealing with this is to ensure that your images are never larger than the recommended width. If the stated maximum width is 1,200px, then I suggest you stick to it for the sake of your page load speed.

Also, you can reduce the size of an image without compromising its quality. There are image-compression tools that help you get the job done smoothly and nicely. These image compression tools (or image optimizers) include imageOptim for Mac users and image compressor for Windows users.