An important aspect of designing a website is to reduce the loading time of the web page to the minimum possible. A lean website design is, in a way, like an attractive athletic woman, so let’s call this article “A Website Weight Loss Program” that will help you make your web pages load much faster.

Why is it so important to reduce the loading time of the website?

A website has a global reach, but the Internet connection speeds in various countries are not the same. There are still many slow dial-ups and broadband connections. Recently published research has revealed that unless massive amounts are spent on improving Internet infrastructure, the average global connection speed may show a drop by 2010. Even for those with high-speed connections, the total number of sites relevant websites on the Internet is growing. Quick. This translates directly into less time spent by the viewer per web page. Generally speaking, patience is a rare commodity in today’s world of shrinking resource-to-consumption ratios. Do you want to neglect a large proportion of potential customers around the world just because your web page load time is slow? If not, follow the steps below to reduce website loading time.

Women often work on trimming the hips, shaping the legs, and removing cellulite in various places. Similarly, I’ve categorized “website weight loss program” below into three “broad” categories: graphics, code, and other factors. Keep in mind that you should meticulously follow as many steps as you can to remove redundant fat from your website design and reduce “website load time” to a minimum.

WEIGHT LOSS PROGRAM WEBSITE

HAS. CUT out the graphics (Slim hips 🙂

1. Avoid Heavy or Complicated Graphic Web Design

Website designs that use a lot of images (especially those with special effects) usually take a long time to load. What happens if an attractive website keeps losing valuable visitors just because its web pages take too long to load? Try to be discreet and use fewer images/graphics while maintaining the look and feel of the website design. Remember that text links are easily read by search engines and load faster than graphical buttons. Sometimes it is also possible to move large images from an important page to a section like “Gallery” to reduce the loading time of the web page.

2. Use only optimized images

Optimize each image in editing software like Photoshop. There are different image formats like GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, etc. so try to save the images in the proper format. As a general rule, GIF is best suited for solid-color images and JPEG for real-world scenes. GIF saved in 256 colors should be reduced (as much as possible) to 128, 64, or 32 colors without compromising image quality. To reduce website load time, JPEG files should be saved at the lowest possible quality without spoiling the impact of the image. You can also use PNG if you are sure your users are using newer browsers.

3. Specify the dimensions of the image

When inserting images in HTML, always mention the height and width attributes. This helps the web browser to know the size of the image before loading it. The browser will then reserve the area for images while the rest of the web page layout continues to load, reducing the loading time of the website. Do not use the height and width tags to reduce the size of the image.

4. Preload your images

You can preload some heavy images of the following pages (which can be accessed by clicking links within the current page) by setting them in the footer of the current web page. For example, img src=”nextimage” height=”1″ width=”1″ inserts a 1×1 pixel image in the footer that is read by the browser when the above code has been read. Thereafter, while your visitor is viewing your home page, the images on the next page will continue to download to the viewer’s PC in the background and reduce subsequent web page load times. This is not recommended for direct AdWords landing pages because Google recently announced that high web page load time will negatively impact landing page Quality Score.

5. Optimize Flash files

Animating important things can have an impact on the visitor. If possible, avoid animated GIF images in website designs; instead, use Flash sparingly. Always use optimized flash files. There are so many ways to reduce Flash load time that I’ll cover this in a separate article.

b. youRIM the code (Shapely legs 😉

1. Remove useless code:

When using an HTML generator, some extra or empty tags are inserted into the code, for example, breaking spaces, block quotes, unnecessary extra space, blank lines, etc. Even if you code HTML by hand, always hand-check your website’s layout code and remove any empty or unnecessary HTML tags. Use appropriate DOCTYPE and close all HTML markup elements. The browser will then have less work to match the elements. Clean coding of a web page will not only reduce the loading time of the website, but it will also increase the text-to-code ratio and search engine spiders will not have to waste time figuring out irrelevant stuff.

2. Using external CSS shorthand

CSS helps make your website design code compact and clean, and its proper use helps reduce website loading time. Define common font styles, images, etc. (used in a set of web pages) in a single external CSS. By doing this, you won’t have to insert the same tags over and over again on different pages; just call the css and apply that particular class. With all your boilerplate stuff defined in the CSS file, the browser won’t have to read each tag again. Always use an external CSS file and remember to remove any extra styles that are not used.

Use smaller class names and CSS shorthand instead of putting each CSS attribute on its own line.

For example:

“Body{

background: url(“image.jpg”);

background color: #cccccc;

background-repeat: repeat-x;

}”

The above code can be written as follows when using CSS shorthand:

“Body {

background: #cccccc url(‘image.jpg’) repeat-x;

}”

A properly created small external CSS file will substantially reduce the loading time of the website.

3. Use external JavaScript

If you must use JavaScript, combine small common JavaScript files into a single external file and then (for newer browsers) you can compress it. This will reduce the loading time of the website and you will not have to write the script on each web page; the web browser has this file in its cache and will not have to download it every time another web page loads.

4. For Table-Based Website Design

Avoid unnecessary nested and full page tables. If you insert a table inside another table, you increase the load time of the web page because the browser has to read the content located in the innermost table. Avoid unnecessary nested tables, instead divide your page into different sections like header, body, footer, etc. according to your design and use a different table for each section. Your browser will be able to load your web page a little faster.

5. Use Tableless Website Layouts

Every time a website is opened, the browser must first scan the tables and then load the page content, which increases the website’s load time. With CSS and DIV tags, you can avoid tables altogether and substantially reduce website load time.

against other factors that reduce the loading time of the website (eliminate cellulite 🙂

1. Host on a high-end server with fast connectivity to reduce website load time.

2. If you have a database-based website, it’s faster and more secure to put your content on one server and your database on another. Consider SSI for common page elements, AJAX for page updates, and compressed Jar files that load faster in the temporary file.

3. Avoid background music files and if you absolutely need to use them, use highly compressed music file formats. Avoid having a lot of things on your website loading from other websites and reduce the number of HTTP requests.

4. Adding a slash to the end of a link like domain.com/contact tells the server that it’s a directory page and doesn’t have to waste time figuring out what kind of file exists at that address.

5. Using fewer redirects, Iframes, PhP and database queries also helps reduce website load time.

If you have followed the website weight loss program above and made your website design lean and sleek, you will be thrilled every time you see its performance. Remember that quality websites offer a lot of new content. When adding new pages, don’t forget to apply the tips above to reduce website loading time.