Web users are notoriously prejudice. The first few seconds of a web user landing onto a website, they will have completely made an opinion of that website. If this is a good impression, then you are likely to have the web user stay on your website, browse through different pages and generally do you website good. However, if it is bad, the total opposite can happen, with the worst case situation being the web user clicks right off your website and never comes back. A huge factor which will affect the web user’s first opinion of your website is its loading speed – if the loading speed is too slow, the web user will become impatient and simply click away in frustration to find the next best alternative. For this reason, here are a few ways you can make a blog load quicker, improving the user experience web users have with it.

#1 Resize Images Before Uploading

For the majority of bloggers (including myself for that matter), they will upload images without thinking about how the actual size of the image will impact the loading time of the website. For example, the favourite is with mobile phone camera images. Many smartphone cameras now take pictures at around 10-20 megapixels, which is way larger than what is needed for a website.

If you ever find yourself reducing the size of an image on your website when uploading it, stop! Resize the image using an Image Editing software before so that the size of your image that you upload to your website is of the correct size – this can honestly reduce the loading time ten fold if the size of the image reduces significantly.

#2 Move JavaScript and HTML to the Bottom of the Page

JavaScript and HTML are two of the biggest factors when it comes to the speed of a blog loading. This is because the majority of JavaScript and HTML loads first before the content and theme of a blog, which means the blog looks like it loads slowly. For this reason, try and move HTML and JavaScript, when possible, to the bottom of the blog, since this will reorder what gets loaded first on your blog – instead of the JavaScript and HTML loading first before more important things, such as the content and website theme, they will now load after, giving the impression to the web user that your website is loading quicker (when it actual fact, it will still load exactly the same).

To test if your website is loading fast or slow, use Pingdom.com which will give you a lot of useful statistics about your website’s performance: even with areas that you should concentrate on improving to reduce the overall speed of your website. If you are still unsure what to concentrate on to speed up your website, have a look into the above two points since these are the two areas which will improve the speed of your website the most on average for websites.