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Can you imagine a 1-second delay in your website speed can cause:<\/p>\n
So the\u00a0above<\/a>\u00a0probably answer the question you are asking —\u00a0“I do have a lot of visitors, but why aren’t they converting?”<\/em><\/p>\n Since 2010,\u00a0Google<\/a>\u00a0has emphasized that speeding up websites is important to all Internet users. Today, Google aim for\u00a0a half second <\/a>loading speed.<\/p>\n We know that\u00a0a half second (0.5 seconds) equals\u00a0to 500 milliseconds (ms). To give you an idea how fast that is, a literal blink of an eye is about 300 to 400 ms.<\/p>\n Thus it’s highly recommended for all webmasters to aim for\u00a0500 milliseconds to 2 seconds at most in website loading speed. Clearly, speeding up your website is critical in 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n There are 3 ways to improve the loading speed of your website.<\/strong><\/p>\n Web hosting has a direct effect on the loading speed of your website. Server stability, reliability, customer\u00a0support all play an important roles.<\/p>\n Remember to check your website’s loading speed from time to time before it start to affect your website performance when you website is slow for long time.<\/p>\n If your website takes an unusually long time to load most of the time,\u00a0you might want to consider transferring your website to a new web host\/hosting provider<\/a>.<\/p>\n A content delivery network or content distribution network (CDN) is a group of servers hosted at different physical locations, working together to distribute or deliver your website content.<\/p>\n With CDN technology, website visitors can access a copy of data from the server closest to them instead of accessing to a single central server.<\/p>\n This in turn can\u00a0boost up your website performance and speed up\u00a0your website loading speed.<\/p>\n To know more how Content Delivery Network (CDN)\u00a0can help your website, click HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n The speed of the website is highly dependent on the HTTP request which is made for each component such\u00a0as images, stylesheets, scripts, Flash,<\/strong><\/em> etc on the web page.<\/p>\n According to Yahoo<\/a>, 80% of the\u00a0time is spent on downloading these elements. In other words,\u00a0the more on-page components, the longer it takes for a page to render.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Thus, the fastest way to handle your website speed is to simplify your design.<\/p>\n Lastly, you can utilize some of the available\u00a0FREE<\/strong>\u00a0tools (for example,\u00a0Page Speed<\/a>, Yslow<\/a>, Webpagetest<\/a>, and Webmaster Tools<\/a>) to evaluate and monitor the speed of your site for better optimization.<\/p>\n Hope these tips are useful for you. Cheers!<\/p>\n3 Ways to Speed Up When Your Website is Slow<\/strong><\/h2>\n
1. Choose\u00a0a good hosting\u00a0provider<\/strong><\/h3>\n
2. Use a CDN (Content Delivery Network)<\/strong><\/h3>\n
3. Minimize the use of flash, scripts etc<\/strong><\/h3>\n