There are good reasons to speed up your site and the ones beyond the obvious may surprise you.
We all know that people using the Internet don't like to have to wait for things, so they're likely to move on from a slow site to a different one that responds faster.
But did you know that the speed of your site is measured by search engines and that's one of the factors that determines how high it appears in search listings?
Have you also considered how much of your own time could be saved if your site responded more quickly when you're working on it?
There are good reasons to speed up any website which go beyond helping impatient visitors!
Here are some of the things you can do to improve site speed:
- Z Use a Content Delivery Network
- Z Add Caching
- Z Optimise file sizes
- Z Stream Videos instead of using files
- Z Optimise code (CSS and Javascript)
- Z Use fast hosting
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There are lots of great free resources out there for improving a website's speed. Start with measuring speed using Google Pagespeed or GT Metrix. These will give you a great starting point on where's best to start to get the biggest improvements.
Take a look at our Analytics section too, to get some inspiration of resources you can use to measure how people are interacting with your website - these too will give you some great insights into understanding how the speed if your site is affecting what your audience does on it.
