Speed Loading Your Website

Nowadays, the number of website makers or owners isn’t proportional to the faithful followers and readers of their web portals. Since HTML is as easy as learning your elementary ABCs, almost everyone has a website of their own, where they have something to say (although it will most likely be a reproduction of some sort of an already mentioned opinion or fact; the Internet is a known killer of originality); not surprisingly enough, the amount of people who will be able to read or even care about your site is being drowned by the phenomenon we call today as the "Information Overload."

Information Overload can simply be defined as that - too much information, and no one to read or interpret it. We produce much faster than we can consume, at least in terms of virtual data. And this may create a problem for your website, especially if you’re venturing into e-commerce or e-business. So how do you save your website from drowning in the sea of obscurity along with millions of other websites? The answer: speed loading.

One thing to keep in mind is that since people have less time to spend on a single site, your job as the owner or designer is to at least make sure that their visit is well worth their time. It’s a basic rule on web development. Aside from making sure that your web content meets quality standards, you may also want to speed up the loading time of your web pages.

There can be many ways employed to make your website a speed-loaded one; usually only speed-loading the front page of your website is suffice to attract more customers. But in special cases, when your website has become far too cluttered with unneeded flash and java applications, redundant text, and heavy graphics, It would be a good idea to lighten up your site bit by bit, starting from the front page, progressing to the pages that your web visitors view the most, to the pages that garner the least number of page views. The trick here to not feel overwhelmed by the amount of work is to do it page by page; you can do your work a page at a time at a relaxed pace and still manage to get many things done.

Once you’ve finally cleaned out all of your pages, pat yourself on the back and reward yourself for a job well done. But it’s not over yet; there are many other ways of making your website a speed loading portal. Look through the codes of your website and fix out any errors in its HTML; mistakes in the line of command can slow down internet loading speed. Another thing to fix may be the layout of your website. Look through the CSS and see if there is a heavy element or two that you can let go of in favor of faster loading time.

If you have the time and permission to do so, consider having to change the layout of your website to make it lighter and dial-up connection-friendly. An application like Sitegrinder 2 can help you in your quest for lighter pages if you’re not that adept in code; try it out. In addition to Sitegrinder are several tutorial websites that can help you learn CSS, HTML, and all other kind of code languages so that you can spot mistakes in the coding.

Sitegrinder
Contains tutorials and such on building your own website from Photoshop without any manual coding.