IS A SLOW WEBSITE LOADING SPEED A CURSE?

Learn how Your fast loading website can get you more money

When you’re initiating to design your website, there are a number of things that you must consider ensuring so that your website comes out perfect and has fast loading time, like:

• Deciding which design format works best for brand/business
• Building a wireframe
• Optimize website loading speed

Steve Job says “a design is not all the time what it look likes but a design is also about something that WORKS.”

Today I’ll be stressing on the next the next half of Mr.Jobs' quote, the way your website “works.” If you have successfully developed a fast loading website, this will affect positively on your website ranking.

Got a perfectly looking website design and wireframes and looking for ways to optimize your website’s loading speed? Here are the things you need to consider.

LOADING TIME

Since loading time is a crucial element, your website design needs to be improved for loading time. Your primary focus is to optimize your website’s loading speed, so that the users landing on your website don’t press that furious ‘back’ button on their browser.

One more thing you need to consider is to keep in mind the mobile browsing version as well. That can actually increase your website ranking because if your target market is mobile savvy, chances are they’ll use their mobile devices/smartphones to browse your website.

On average, a loading time of 2 to 3 seconds is enough for a website.

USE IMAGES SKILLFULLY

Using high-resolution images is considered effective because it has been assumed that everyone browsing internet has a high-speed internet connection like 3G and 4G and images will load easily. And due to the availability of high internet speed many website designers use high-resolution images that are a big mistake because it can cause your website to slow down and affect website loading speed.

DESIGN ELEMENTS MATTER

Who don’t like a cool and attractive website? But theses animations and cool graphics can affect website loading speed and slow it down. Don’t worry; there are many ways out to keep those cool graphics and animations and still not compromise on the speed.

Even by using simple HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript you can still create a fast loading website and have a competitive edge.