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Make
your website go faster
Article written
by Johanns Christophe
There are several
ways to make your website load faster. Here are the things you should do first:
- Don't overload
your website with graphics. Try to keep the total size of graphics on one
page under 20 kb. Compress the graphics. If the graphic has one to four colors
use GIF, if it has more colors use JPG.
- Only use graphics
when needed. You can do a lot with style attributes! Don't use them for a
text message or something like that. Only use them for things you can't achieve
with the style tags.
- Don't use Java.
They load slowly, take much of the CPU's capacity and they're difficult to
program.
- Use streaming
media, like Flash4. The objects will load while they are already playing what
is loaded.
- Split up your
pages! For example: If you have a huge article and it has 3 main subjects,
make for each subject a different page and start the article with an intro
page with a short description and links to the different pages.
- Don't choose
for a web host in one day. Ask around which host is fast. You will be nothing
with unlimited web space if it loads so slow that people exit the site without
they have seen one thing of the website.
- Don't exaggerate
with JavaScript. Use one or two scripts but not twenty on one page! It will
make the page load much more slower.
- If you have
a database kind of site, use frames. This way you can put all the graphics
in the frames and they don't have to be loaded page after page. (Don't use
frames if you have not a database kind of site)
- Don't use image
backgrounds. Mostly they are kind of heavy and they have to be loaded page
after page. I'm sure your website will load much faster after you checked
all these things. You may have two bad points, let them, it's not a disaster!
But if you have 4 or more bad points there is work to do!
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