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How to increase website performance?

Did you know, a 1-second delay in page loading makes conversion drop by almost 7%?
No think if your page is taking 10 seconds to load that means you are losing a great amount lot of clients or customers.

There are also bad impacts on:
✔️ Conversion
✔️ User experience
✔️ SEO
✔️ Page views drop

I am sharing some best practices to decrease the page load time of your website.

➡️ First thing first, choose a great Hosting platform for your business. If you Invest in hosting you will never regret it.

You can choose some hosting platform like:
🔹 Hostinger
🔹 Godaddy
🔹 Hostgator
🔹 Bluehost
🔹 Siteground

➡️ Optimize the images of the website. Make sure you are using high-quality images with low sizes. Because high image size will take time to load and also impact on disk space of hosting.
Some image optimization sites:
🔹 Tinypng (My Favourite)
🔹 Imagecompressor
🔹 Imagify

➡️ Minify CSS and JavaScript. Make sure you are using minified version of CSS and js files. It will help you to load your site faster. But it's a little bit risky. Make sure you are working with a professional developer who can do this job for you.

➡️ Use a content delivery network. What is CDN? According to Cloudflare, “A content delivery network (CDN) refers to a geographically distributed group of servers which work together to provide fast delivery of Internet content.” That means user requests are redirected to the nearest server. As a result, the content is delivered to a user quicker and the website works faster.

➡️ Use less animation. I know animations on the website will give attraction and a good user experience. But somewhere it affects our website speed. Because animations use CSS and JS.

➡️ Try to load fonts and icons from your local server. Web fonts add extra HTTP requests to external resources.

➡️ Use fewer cookies on your site. Cookies let websites remember you, your website logins, shopping carts and more. Now gain they impact on website speed. You can read more about cookies on the site Kaspersky


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