This problem is still very common among internet users. If your visitors have to wait 20 seconds for a page to load, you'll lose half of your audience and limit your sales as well. Consider the following tips, which will help you optimize your website and make the loading time faster:
· ImagesGraphics increase loading time, so try to use no more than 5 in a page. Also, keep the file size down to minimum by optimizing your web graphics.
· TablesAvoid putting all your content into one large table, because visitors won't see anything else until it loads. Try to break your content into smaller tables. Put your logo, top navigation menu (if you have one), content and footer in different tables. This will load each of them accordingly and keep visitors hang on your site.
· Top Image or Flash BannersIt's a bad idea to put a banner on the top of the page, because they're seen first. Huge banners take a lot of time to load. Your visitors won't appreciate that. People want to see content not a banner. Avoid using top banners, otherwise you will lose the majority of dial-up visitors.
· Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)Another factor that helps to reduce the loading time is CSS. Put your cascading style sheet into one external file and link to it from all pages. This will reduce the size of a source code and the loading time.
HTML TagsMany times webmasters forget to optimize their code when building websites. A web page optimization may reduce the file size by 80%. Try to use relative instead of full URL. For example, "http://www.domain.com/images/logo.gif" replace with "/images/logo.gif". If you have many links, this will save you a couple of Kbytes.
All the tips above should help you reduce the size of your web graphics, style sheets and source code. Fast loading pages will be appreciated by your visitors and will increase the number of hits to your website.
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