Website Speed

 August 05, 2021 | WEB DEVELOPMENT

GREAT! You’ve got a website, but is it fast? How do you even know if your website is fast enough? Great question. In today’s blog, we are going to share the basic steps to know your website speed, and how to help it load faster. So, Let’s dive into it.

Step 1: Go to https://gtmetrix.com/ and type in your website domain. We are not affiliated with them, we just like to use them to test all our client websites on a regular basis.

Step 2: See what your score is. If you are scoring anything less than “A”, you could be in trouble. Keep reading to find out why.

Based on website analytics from some real geniuses in the tech world, website visitors will leave a page if it doesn’t load fast. Like, real fast. As in, loaded in less than 2 seconds.

This means that each time a visitor lands on your website, a countdown begins and they are moments away from leaving your site and going to your competitors. How do we get this sorted?

Start by looking at how your website was built. Did you build it yourself, or did you pay a company to do it? If a company built it, give them a ring and just say, “Hey, my website loads slow, what’s up with that?” They should be able to explain to you what they can do to fix it. Keep in mind, I said fix. If your site is slow, something needs to change. This should ideally not cost you anything.

If you built it yourself, here are the basics items that can help keep site load speed to zippy status. First off, are you keeping everything up to date? You’ve got to keep your plugins and addons up to date for optimum function. Next in line, your photos. Keeping photos optimized and resized. (You did get your photos optimized prior to uploading, didn’t you?) When you upload a photo, it may be WAY bigger than it needs. Your new Iphone shoots pictures with a file size so large, it will load crazy slow. You can fix this by resizing your photos, or using a plugin to help the load speed. SOmething like Lazy Loading goes a long way to help.