Loading time

My blog was so heavy last time and loading it was like forever. I was kinda tired of it and so I went searching ways on how to optimise loading time. Thanks to the internet technology, I found SEO Doctor and installed the browser add-on. From there I studied the tips on how to make loading time faster.

Here are the things that I learned and want to share with you:

Plugins and widgets are usually the prime suspect for slowdowns. With so many plugins and widgets around, chance is you might have installed more than you need. Try to reduce by deleting not-so-important ones.

Images, flash, videos and javascripts all which take a significant portion of bandwidth. It is often overlooked that your images can be optimized (made smaller) which can significantly reduce loading times. Good way to avoid this problem is to compress images.

Themes can include code with plugin capabilities and may use excessive JavaScript or image files, causing huge amount of data to transfer. Try looking for simpler theme.

Post Revision might cause the slow loading. If you are using wordpress like me, you should now by now that under the edit mode, there’s a post revision tracking mechanism. If you don’t really need it, you can take it out by adding define('WP_POST_REVISIONS', false); in your wpconfig file. You can also look for Database Optimisation plugin.

Number of posts in homepage can also be the cause. If you have many images on your posts, try reducing to a minimum of 5 posts. Else, 10 is just fine.

Now my blog loads less than 10 seconds, much much much better than the more-than-100 seconds previously. If your blog loads too slow, you should really start applying the above methods but I am very sure that there are hundreds of thousands of tips from SEO Experts on how to solve the loading problem. You just go google ‘optimise loading time’. Good luck!