Easy Methods to Increase Your Website Speed

Website speed is the most important factor for SEO. It also affects the popularity of your site, about every 25% of the visitors of the site left that even if it is useful for them for slow loading sites. Google also decided to include website loading speed for website ranking.

You can increase your website by performing testing or analyzing your site by using different such tools and performing the actions suggested by them. The main tasks to be performed to achieve such goals are setting an expiry date or maximum age in the HTTP headers, minimizing the HTTP redirects, minimizing the amount of JavaScript need while loading the page, minimizing unnecessary JavaScript, CSS Scripts and HTML, Optimizing images and long running scripts etc.

Why Website Speed is Most Important For SEO?

Only the fast loading websites can achieve better user experience and can have the minimum exit ratio. They can only achieve their goals in their online business and marketing. Search engine crawlers also prefers faster website, those websites which have slow loading speed may have the greater chance of timing out while crawling them and may be the indexing rate very slow. So your SEO work will be successes only if your website fast. Here I am describing about some most popular and free tools for analyzing the speed and getting appropriate suggestions.

List of Most Popular Tools for Website Speed Test

1. Google Developers Page Speed Tool: It is the most effective and free tool for analyzing and getting suggestion for your website. You don't need to login to the Google to use this tool. You can test your site either by using online tool or by installing toolbar on Mozilla Firefox or chrome browser. You can view the list of suggestions for improving your website's speed listing on High, Medium and Low priority giving with score for out of 100. Correct the errors which are given on suggestion and increase the speed and the score given there. I prefer it as the best tool among all the others.

2. Yslow Tool: Yslow is a tool, which analyzes the Web Pages and gives information about why they are slow based on Yahoo's rules for high performance websites. It grades the webpage based on the predefined rule set and also offers the suggestions for improving the performance. You can install its tools on most of the main browsers. YSlow's web page analysis is based on the 23 of 34 rules provided by Yahoo!'s Exceptional Performance team. It gives different grades from A to F based on the score gained for each different rule.

3. Webpagetest Online Tool: By using this tool you can run a free website speed test from multiple locations around the world using real browsers and at real consumer connection speeds. You can run simple test as well advanced test. You can get the result of the speed test on waterfall charts and can get useful suggestion or tips for increasing the speed of your site.

4. Pingdom Website Speed Test Tool: It is also the full page speed test tool to test your website and analyze that. You can learn about how to make the website faster and can apply that tips for your site. It is to be a easy to use tool to help optimize the performance of your website which examines all the parts of web page, you can view file size, load times, total website speed and also about every single element like HTML, JavaScript, CSS files and images.

By effectively optimizing the speed of your site can achieve the best for Search Engine Optimization work. If you have any comments about this post or you know about any ideas for speeding up the site and about any other new tools can post on the comment session. I will always welcome your response.

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