The search giant “Google” is constantly striving to make itself more user-friendly and productive, and as a part of it, it regularly updates its search algorithms in favor of the end-users. After announcing that mobile friendly websites will be given more importance in search results, the Google recently made it public that loading speed of your website will be considered as one of the most important ranking factors. Therefore, it has become obligatory for all webmasters to improve the loading speed of their websites at any cost. Moreover, it is also essential because websites loading slowly receive 11% less views every day, resulting in decreased conversion rates by 7%.

Steps to Decrease Load Time of Your Website

Manage your HTTP Requests: If not handled properly and professionally, different types of HTTP requests, including images, stylesheets, flash and others make your website creep. A junk of useless components on the page means it will load slowly as each one of them need an HTTP request to load. Make your website simple with the help of one or two stylesheets for styling, use CSS instead of images, and use a less scripting to boost the speed of your website.

Enable Compression: In high quality website development, large pages are hefty and take longer to load because their size is around about 100kb or sometimes in even more. By enabling compression, a trick by which multiple large pages can be zipped into one, you can make your website fast enough. Compression reduces HTTP response time by reducing the bandwidth of your pages.