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Web designers know that any visitor to a website would greatly appreciate a fast experience, and would leave a website if things take several seconds longer than expected. Therefore, it is necessary to know all the tips and tricks that can be used to decrease the page load time, as faster websites have more satisfied customers.

Visitors can easily tell the quality of a site they are visiting by the amount of time it takes for a page to load. When they have a good experience, then they will keep coming back. This will also have a positive impact on your brand. Here are eight amazing tips that will quicken the performance of your website and ensure its success.

1. Avoiding Bad Requests

Avoiding Bad Request
Bad requests will definitely slow down your website and make it hard for your website visitors to get what they need in good time. Sometimes these bad requests are made without the website owner realizing it. At one time or another, you will change something on your website or even update it and this can leave your website with some of the old links that no longer work. A visitor might click on them and since the browser will have to initiate the request following the click, the visitors time is waster. You should go through your website from time to time just to ensure that you do not have these bad requests. You can also use Google webmaster tools in order to check out if you have any broken links in your website.

2. Content Delivery Networks

Content delivery network
Get your website onto a content delivery network. Content delivery networks do not store one copy of your website. Instead, they host various copies of your website on different servers, which are located across the globe. In case a visitor comes to your website and they make a request, his request will be sent to a server that is close to his location, and this increases the speed of response. This means that the request is received in record time and the response is made quickly to avoid any kind of delay, enabling the visitor to access your content fast.

3. Serving Scaled Images

Serving Scaled Images
If you are using images in your website, ensure that they are used in their original image size if that is possible. Resizing your images using a tool like CSS will slow down your website. If you are to resize your images in order to get the actual size of your desire, you can use other tools like Photoshop. This will save your bytes and ensure that your website loading is not affected.

4. Compress your Images

PNG Gauntlet
Make use of an image compressor when you want to change the size of a picture. One excellent tool to use is PNG Gauntlet. This is a program that you can use to optimize all your PNG files and make them smaller so that they are lighter on your site without compromising their quality. Smaller files will load faster than the larger files, and you will not have to worry about pictures being blurry or pixilated. Using this type of tool is an excellent way to speed up your website and still meet the expectations of your website visitors.

5. JPEGMini

JPEGmini
JPEDMini is another brilliant image compression service that will minimize all types of pictures, making them up to five times smaller without changing the way that they look in any way. There are two versions of this tool, the free version, and the paid version. The paid version has a range of additional features that help to further enhance your pictures.

6. Compress your HTML

CSS Minifier
Minimizing codes will definitely speed up your website. In order to achieve this, you can remove your HTML comments, all your CDAT sections, the empty elements and also the white spaces. Compress your HTML will help you decrease the size of your webpage and also reduce your network latency. The result of these actions is a fast loading web page. CSS Minifier is an excellent tool that can help you minimize your codes with ease.

7. Use gzip Compression

gzip Compression
The gzip Compression is currently the most popular compression method available online. It is exceptionally easy to use and is also readily available by anyone that wants to enjoy its usefulness. Once you make use of it, you will be amazed at the improvement in the speed on your website, as it normally saves more than 50% of the bandwidth that you use. A lot of internet traffic these days prefer to use browsers that support gzip because they do not experience any delays and they are able to gather information from different websites in just a few minutes. Gzip will help to reduce your HTP size in order to reduce response time. It also makes web pages smaller so that they are able to load much faster.

8. Sprite Images

Sprite Images
This is a tool that you should use when you have a website that is loaded with many different images. Images slow down a website considerably, and sometimes, they may not even load properly at all. With Sprite image, you will reduce the number of requests that are made to the server. Normally, what happens is that every single image that you have on your website will need one HTTP request to the server in case of a request by a website visitor. If several requests are made at the same time, there will be a queue before the execution is carried out and this is what causes delays. When you are making use of sprites, you will minimize these requests and this means that there will be no queues. Every request will in the end be executed as soon as a request is made to the server.

To grow your website, you must ensure that you keep your visitors satisfied, your website must work seamlessly and meet their needs. This means quick loading and no delays or errors. Doing this will ensure that you make a lasting impact on any visitor.