{"id":24710,"date":"2022-11-01T09:04:03","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T01:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.exabytes.sg\/blog\/?p=24710"},"modified":"2022-11-01T09:04:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T01:04:03","slug":"your-website-is-slow-how-to-fix-speed-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.exabytes.sg\/blog\/your-website-is-slow-how-to-fix-speed-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Reasons Why Your Website Is Slow (How to Fix & Speed Up)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When was the last time you revisited your website? Have you ever noticed how slow it can be?<\/p>\n

The speed at which a site loads up in your browser, adds a lot of value with the attachment that you have with the site. And most likely you will never remember the slow-loading ones.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

How a site loads up, is also valuable for business propositions, and possible customers.\u00a0<\/span>A bad customer wait time can lead to the business losing a potential customer and look unprofessional.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This article will guide you through the reasons why your website is slow and the best practices to help your website speed up.<\/p>\n

Why My Website is Slow?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The speed of loading up of the site depends on the type of web host and the <\/span>web hosting<\/span><\/a> plan<\/a> selected. <\/span><\/p>\n

Selecting the right <\/span>web hosting<\/span><\/a> company, with the right statistics of RPO and RTO, should be the first step in taking your website to the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

Web hosting<\/span> companies, have both shared as well as dedicated plans<\/a>. Every <\/span>web hosting<\/span> company has to cater to customers with varied budgets to host their websites. <\/span><\/p>\n

Depending on the content of the website, the business strategy around the products on the website, and the number of users that are estimated to visit the website, a <\/span>web hosting<\/span> company would be able to guide you on the most appropriate option to host your website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If one thing is true about your website, it\u2019s that the loading speed matters. When your site loads slowly, you will not only provide a poor user experience, but you will also rank lower in the search engines.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Before we move into the <\/span>web hosting<\/span> areas that can improve the speed of loading for your site, we need to look at some basics when it comes to improving the speed for your website.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

How to Fix & Speed Up Your Website<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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The below five steps have to be used while designing the website:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Enable Caching<\/b><\/h3>\n

When a visit is made to the site, certain common elements on the site, are stored in the cache, so that the next time you visit the site, it can access those elements from the cache itself (instead of visiting the relevant folder on the <\/span>web hosting<\/span><\/a> server<\/a>), and loads much faster. <\/span><\/p>\n

With the caching enabled, the browser, instead of having to download every single resource, it has to download only a few of them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

By turning on the caching mode, you can improve the return visitors on your site. There are plugins, based on the code type, which can let you enable site wide caching, or caching of a certain site elements.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Remove Resource Hogging Plugins and Add-ons<\/b><\/h3>\n

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If the site is running too many plugins, which could potentially be slowing down your website. <\/span><\/p>\n

It is very important from the site loading perspective, to check up on the plugins that hog resources.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To understand and identify these, the first step should be to use a baseline tool for the website. <\/span><\/p>\n

After the baselines are available, go ahead and disable the plugins, one after the other – after every disable, run the baseline tool. The results will help you identify the ones that hog resources.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Optimize and Reduce the Size of Your Images<\/b><\/h3>\n

If your website has images that are not optimized, then this will negatively impact the loading time for your site and will not give an optimized user experience. <\/span><\/p>\n

The below steps should help you overcome this problem:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n