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Website speed is a very important factor for many reasons. Mostly it affects the customer experience and search engine rankings. If your website loading speed is slow, it can degrade user experience on your website and Google does not like it either. So, you will get a negative image on google bot. To avoid all those traumas, there are 7 simple tricks that you can take to make your website load bullet fast. Following these steps will visibly improve your website speed.

01. Add CDN to Your Website

Using a Content Delivery Network (CDN) on your website can bring many benefits which can be hard to do by just working on the server and optimizing it. We recommend using Cloudflare on your website because it provides you some powerful tools and features for free. On Cloudflare, you can use WebP, Loosy, Auto-minify, HTTP/2 and free SSL completely free with them.

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02. Use Caching and Proxy on the Server

Caching can be set up either on the server itself. There are also many options to implement caching on your website. If you are running your website on a VPS server, you can install backend reverse proxy and cache service like Varnish cache. But if you are using a shared hosting service, then you might not fiend Varnish on your system to take advantage of. In that case, if your hosting is on the LiteSpeed server, then you can take advantage of it too. Using LiteSpeed caching on your server can give you increased speed to the visitors because it keeps the cached version of the website on the ram. If you are using WordPress, then you can use the “LiteSpeed Cache” plugin.

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03. Optimize Database

You can optimize your database in many ways to reduce the loading time. Proper indexing, avoiding coding loops can save a lot of valuable loading time. Also, enable slow queries report and monitor it regularly to find the slowest queries. Indexing those databases and rewriting the queries will be a much greater solution for you.

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04. Minimize the Use of JavaScript

Where your JavaScript .js script is located matters a lot. Try to place your javascript file at the end of your code without breaking your website to reduce the first load time of your website. Also, try to minimize the use of javascript, combine files and minimize the code to make it as small as possible. Proper optimization and use of Javascript can help a lot when it comes to increasing website loading speed.

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05. Optimize Images

If you are using Cloudflare, then it will automatically compress your images with WebP lossless compression. Always use the exact size of your image that you need. For example, if you need a small square image like 4”x4”, do not use a large image for that job like 12”x12” size. Because if you have uploaded a large image and using the small version of it, then the browser needs to reduce the image into small size which takes computing resources and slows down your website load time. There are many plugins to easily optimize images for a website if you are using WordPress.

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06. Optimize CSS

Similar to Javascript, CSS file size also needs to be reduced as much as possible. Minimize the CSS codes, for example, if you have some CSS class on that you use only once on the website, you can disable it for loading on other pages. You can minify your CSS codes to reduce the file size. You can combine the CSS files but use multiple bundles to help browsers manage cache better.

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07. Reduce Font Size

Making a website look great using cool fonts is what everyone wants. But heavy fonts can slow down your website. Try to use SVG inline fonts, generate specifically the glyphs that you need. Remove external resources whenever possible.

By following those tips, you are on your way to speed up your website. Your website should be much faster if you have followed those instructions. After you have done some optimization on the website, use some 3rd party services like Gtmetrix to review your website again. It can show some other areas where you can improve to get better load speed on your website. If you have any questions regarding speeding up your website, feel free to let us know in the comment.

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