Let’s make the web Faster
October 29th, 2009 | 
Author: Let’s make the web Faster,
- by Timothy Caron
Hey Guy’s and Gal’s and future website designers, we all know the importants of search engine optimization, but do you know about webpage optimization?
We all know the importance of first impressions, which we have mentioned several times in past posts, but did you know that if your webpages load too slow, it’s just as bad as poor copy?
Ahmad Permessur
In a recent article by Ahmad Permessur Newsletter Editor for Hot Scripts.com he states that webpage optimization is the 1st things that you should look to improve.
The rest of his article is listed below. Don’t forget to get out the links in his article for more information from Google Code and the Yahoo Optimization Center. Enjoy.
Here’s the article…
Imagine going to your computer and finding that every web page loads instantly. Imagination may become reality — webmasters and organizations around the Web are constantly coming up with solutions to make the Web faster.
The connection speed of the end user, the browser, your hosting environment and the different elements of your page all affect web page load time. Google’s recent initiative to showcases several optimization techniques that you can apply to your site.
My rule of thumb to make a page load faster is to reduce the number of browser requests. Each time a web page is requested, your browser makes several HTTP requests to the server to fetch HTML, JavaScript, CSS, images and other elements. When you reduce the number of requests, each user’s browser spends less time downloading and rendering these elements, and you’ve greatly improved the load time of your site. One easy way to do this is by combining all your scripts into a single file. For more ideas, please visit the Yahoo’s Web Optimization Best Practices center.
Finally, a tool that works best to measure page load time and HTTP requests is webpagetest.org. It allows you to not only choose from which location you’d like the test to be run, but also to configure it to emulate different connection speeds such as dialup and DSL.
Don’t forget, I welcome your comments and suggestion, please make a comment below.
The best comment below will get a Free Website Makeover….
Until next time, have a wonderful day.
Tim
Posted in Building Your Website | 
Tags: design and layout, file requests, http requests, webpage optimization
Leave a Reply
 |
 |
 |
FTC Disclaimer: Posts written before December 1st, 2009 may include endorsements of products or services that include a material connection to the author. Readers should assume a material connection for any product or service endorsed prior to December 1, 2009.
In future post I may offer solutions in the form of products and services that you may benefit from, which may include an affiliate link. You will be advised in the post if it is an affiliate link or not.
