[How to]Optimize Site load time?

Using many flash based icons, videos, music players and menu bars or using several widgets makes your web page much dynamic. But they reduce your site load time and increase the browser rendering errors. Which means visitors has to wait some time to watch your content. When their flash plugins  doesn’ t  support. They have to download them again. Think if you are the visitor the content doesn’t rendering well with your browser or showing some errors. Do you stay at that site? Do you come again and again to that site? Probably “NO”.  Scripts also same. Some people turn off scripts and ActiveX content. Therefore what will happen is visitors miss the main content of your post.

Many webmasters avoid Flash menus and icons because of this. SEO doesn’t match with this. Otherwise CSS can do many of them with browser friendly. They aren’t well mobile friendly. Don’t use much of them.

Other thing is The Hotlinks in your page. Hotlinks means the scripts, pictures, videos and buttons displayed in your blog but actually located in other server. This normally happens in blog directories and submission services. They may give you a link of them to put in your blog. This indicates a small badge of their site.

Study this code 

<a href="http://www.blogarama.com/"><img src="http://www.blogarama.com/images/button.gif" border="0" alt="Blogarama - The Blog Directory" title="Blogarama - The Blog Directory" /></a>

Lets see How to Customize this code

Use alternative text /alt text

The above code you can see alt="Blogarama - The Blog Directory" when some people turn off pictures from their browsers. Then the alt text appears in that space. The visitor can see it. Use alt text related to that image. Don’t sort it a number or name like button 1 button 2 …etc. alt text plays an important role when sorting to search engines.

Use width height parameters.

As I told you in Images and Hyperlinks tutorials allocating the exact width for the image makes easy for the browser to allocate required space for the image if it downloaded lately and continue downloading the rest.

Be careful

Many blog submission services give you a tracker code for visitor count and voting services. You cannot change this. However blog submission services like Technorati has huge traffic so they never get busy.

GIF images vs JPEG  Images

 

Do you know Gif images loads more quickly than JPEG images? GIF images already formatted for web. .gif Format normally use for animate something but photos can also converted to .gif

Color Quality of the JPEG images is higher than .gif format. If you use images like screen cuts and buttons. Better them to convert to .gif. But your site gives high quality image downloads like background images/wallpapers upload original image to Image host and publish only the thumbnail to your page. (Please fallow this lesson if you don’t know how to do it)

Bad link check

 

Always check that the external links (text links, scripts and images/videos) in your blog are not broken. If you are doing a traffic exchange or exchange links. The other party may have removed your link or site down. Not only that kind of personal site. Some blog directories remove the links and sometimes the directory itself got unavailable. There are two disadvantages of this. They are no longer sending traffic to you and affect the site loading time .you need not to check this manually. See my useful tools page in order to find the right programme.