Before you start the process of increasing your site speed at all, you need to know how it impacts your website and what to do when your site speed is slow.
- Your site speed influences your bounce rate and search engine rankings.
- 40% - 50% of visitors will quit websites that take more than 3-4 seconds to load.
- The average homepage for websites in most of the industries out there loads in 3-4 seconds.
- You can simply improve your site speed by enabling cache, using a simple website template, optimizing images, & many more.
As technology advances, we don’t really want to wait too long to search for any piece of information we need at one time or the other. We just want to conduct our searches within 1-2 seconds. We do expect any website we’re trying to access to load as quickly as possible no matter what the device we’re using, and wouldn’t hesitate to quit when loading speed doesn’t go as expected.
According to findings, 48% of users would always expect a page to load in 2.5 seconds or less and 41% of users won’t hesitate to leave a site that takes 3 seconds or greater to load. So, if your site speed is slow, it’s bringing about great losses to you.
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NeptuneSiver
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Israel17
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Thanks for stopping by, Neptune! Your comment is valuable and deeply appreciated! Increasing site speed is one of the top 200 ranking signals in Google's search algorithms. This will help you boost your Google PageRank. Thanks for your lovely visit!
Israel Olatunji
Israel Olatunji
jetrbby80316
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Great overall advice, Israel.
For those who really want to the deep detail aspect of this, I've written a training that has becme very popular: Turbo Charge Your Site Speed!
For those who really want to the deep detail aspect of this, I've written a training that has becme very popular: Turbo Charge Your Site Speed!
Israel17
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Much welcome, Jetrbby! Much impressed! I recommended your training to others. You did a great deal of work, friend. Kudos! See you at the top of the online world soon!
Cynthia1423
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Also I want to know what do you think about a plugin called W3 Total Cache, doing research and found this article that says it helps with website speed.
Thanks
Thanks
Israel17
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Hello Cynthia, I'm not used to that plugin at all but can investigate the plugin called W3 Total Cache for you if you wouldn't mind. In the meantime, kindly go through Jetrbby's training for more detailed strategies on how you can improve your site speed. Turbo Charge Your Site Speed! Israel Olatunji
Cynthia1423
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Marley2016
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Israel,
My site speeds were all at 100% until I used a contact form
from WP as a plugin I do not want to take this away because
it is needed, also I am finding videos are lowing the site
speed what can be done to correct this do you know I do
not want to lower speeds but this is happening now with only
5 plugins with the WP form and 6 with the TablePress
lowering my speeds to 90% and 70%?
Thanks,
Susan
My site speeds were all at 100% until I used a contact form
from WP as a plugin I do not want to take this away because
it is needed, also I am finding videos are lowing the site
speed what can be done to correct this do you know I do
not want to lower speeds but this is happening now with only
5 plugins with the WP form and 6 with the TablePress
lowering my speeds to 90% and 70%?
Thanks,
Susan
Israel17
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Hello Marley, sorry about the site speed issue! Experientially, the number of plugins does not impact the loading speed of your site as such. I've seen people with more than 10 plugins installed on their sites and the speed is awesome, whereas, I've seen people with only 4 or 5 plugins installed and the speed is extremely slow.
This proves that it's not due to the number of plugins as such, but other factors such as reducing the size of an image which negatively impacts the page load times. Make sure you do the scaling appropriately, enable caching, use simple site designs, and all of that.
I recommend Jetrbby's training for more strategies: Turbo Charge Your Site Speed! Israel Olatunji
This proves that it's not due to the number of plugins as such, but other factors such as reducing the size of an image which negatively impacts the page load times. Make sure you do the scaling appropriately, enable caching, use simple site designs, and all of that.
I recommend Jetrbby's training for more strategies: Turbo Charge Your Site Speed! Israel Olatunji
Cynthia1423
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Hello Israel,
I do have EWWW Image Optimizer plugin and I checked my site on Google's WebPage test didn't have any problems there.
I don't understand what is a Cache?
I am experiencing slow load times on mobile devices according to site health its 38 percent. I did reach out and ask IT but they referred me to the Program Developer, as I stated to them I am not a Developer, so I need things to be explain in layman's terms.
Thanks for any feed back to help me
Cynthia,
Cheers!
I do have EWWW Image Optimizer plugin and I checked my site on Google's WebPage test didn't have any problems there.
I don't understand what is a Cache?
I am experiencing slow load times on mobile devices according to site health its 38 percent. I did reach out and ask IT but they referred me to the Program Developer, as I stated to them I am not a Developer, so I need things to be explain in layman's terms.
Thanks for any feed back to help me
Cynthia,
Cheers!
Israel17
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Good to know that there's no issue with your site speed on a desktop device, Cynthia! Much impressed! By simply enabling cache, using a simple website design, as well as optimizing images, you'll improve your loading speed on mobile devices too. Cache is a combination of identical items stored in an inaccessible place.
A website is essentially made up of a certain number of files that are appropriate together to create a series of pages. Some of these will contain images, the main body or introduction of a blog post, while others will contain fashionable information for page elements such as footer, header, sidebar, and all of that.
If you need any further help, don't hesitate to let me know. I also recommend Jetrbby's training for more strategies. Check the link above.
Israel Olatunji
A website is essentially made up of a certain number of files that are appropriate together to create a series of pages. Some of these will contain images, the main body or introduction of a blog post, while others will contain fashionable information for page elements such as footer, header, sidebar, and all of that.
If you need any further help, don't hesitate to let me know. I also recommend Jetrbby's training for more strategies. Check the link above.
Israel Olatunji
