Key takeaways
- Page speed is a ranking factor, so a slow site costs you traffic before anyone reads a word.
- Measure first with a real testing tool. Optimising without a baseline is guesswork.
- Most wins are unglamorous: compress images, cut requests, and cache aggressively.
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Slow websites, or slow pages are not good for SEO. In these days everything needs to be fast. If your website loads in more than 2 seconds you’ll probably lose customers, either by not getting ranked properly in search results, either by customers leaving your website due to its speed.
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Here are 5 website speed improvements tips that we consider important:
- Reduce the overall size of your assets:
- Minify your JavaScript, CSS files
- Resize images by using free resizing online tools without losing image quality
- Compress assets using Gzip to reduce load time by as much as 70%
- Reduce the size of your HTML code
- Uglify your HTML code of your web pages
- Release features with fewer lines of code (inspect 3rd party plugins like Editors to understand how much markup they add to your website)
- Upgrade your dependencies to the latest version
- usually the latest versions has many performance improvements
- even if you need to do some code changes in order to make your code work with the latest version, we still believe it worth giving a try
- Reduce the Number Of HTTP Requests
- Group JS and CSS files together
- Batch HTTP requests
- Use browser caching and remove unused 3rd party libraries or plugins
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Frequently Asked Questions
Does page speed really affect SEO rankings?
Yes, speed is a ranking factor, but the bigger cost is usually behavioural. A page that takes more than a couple of seconds loses visitors before they read anything, so you pay twice: once in ranking and once in the people who never stayed.
What should I fix first?
Whatever your measurement says is largest. In practice that is usually image weight, then request count, then caching. Guessing without a baseline means you optimise the part that was already fast.
How do I know a change actually helped?
Measure the same page the same way before and after. A single run varies enough to hide a real improvement or invent one, so compare like for like rather than trusting one number.
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