Do you want your site load quickly? Is your personal home page, it may be good for you. If you try to run a business or to give people important information, it can be very important. If your front page takes a long time to load into a browser, then you want to do some redesign to increase the number of visitors who may decide to stay on your site.

Start with the obvious hogs bandwidth: images and other media. My suggestion here is to abandon all forms of media inserted in a front page images only. Of course, a song of substance, be nice, but these sound files can take a wide range, especially if the audio book. wav. I (was 30 seconds. Wav on my computer, it turned out to be about 140K). Videos can be taxed more, (1 MB or more) at times and should be avoided unless absolutely necessary. As a surfer, so I have to wait to load more than 10 seconds for something like that, I am tempted to strike back “Stop” or “.” So if you use this, keep the files small (probably 30-40K or less would be OK). Even better would be to put them back later.

First, remember that the world is not a T1, cable modem or an ISDN connection that connects to the Internet. In fact, there are many surfers with modems under 56 KB. Just as web designers we must ensure that our pages load quickly as possible without something important.

Your photos will make your next big concern. They can also be quite large, so one must be cautious when it comes to images. To make a beginning, not an image any more than you need to have the desired effect. If you have a picture you have 600 pixels x 600 pixels, you can forever to load on your page. One of the easiest ways to reduce the size of the image is simply the image to smaller dimensions. View your editing program image and resize or resample your image to shrink. You can also compress images with special services in the network, which can reduce the file size of images for you, and watch the pictures are always good when they are compressed. There is a link to an image program, make a picture tutorial and size of image file, harm reduction at the end of the article for you.

Another trick you can use is to define the width and height of all your image tags. In this way, the browser knows how much space to use the image on the page, and adaptation is not everything, but when the image begins to load. It will save some time and continue to the page to jump when an image is loaded.

After the images as compact as you have to do, you can load times on other sites using one or more images of the first page on other pages. The image you’ll be charged for the viewers on the first page in the browser cache and calls immediately, if it is invoked on your other sites! This way you can other things you can not be on the photo does not need to worry about charging.

Finally, you are sure that the front is as short as possible. A page may take much more time to load, even if it’s all about the text. Put additional information on another page and you use a link for citizens to view. You save a little more time, and perhaps provide a little more order. Well, I think it done today, I may still be some tips for speed in a later article. Until then, have fun with your website speed improvement!