A consumer study on April 2015 reveals that visitors will leave your site if it takes more than 3 seconds to load. This fact has brought around many web developers to optimize their website, especially in SEO purposes where directing people to visit a certain site is necessary. In fact, many web developers attempt to fasten their sites through several ways, some of them as follows.

Optimize Images

Having a file which the size fits to your website will help your site load faster. So, make sure to compress your files into jpeg format and resize it to fit your website so they are not larger than needed. In fact, the image quality usually is not detectable by human eye, if it is compressed to 80-90%, but it will surely reduce the file size impressively.

Remove Ads

Do not burden your website with too much adds as it will mix up and even take over visitor’s attention, and also it will burden your website to load. So, it is better for not over doing it and limit ads to 2-3 per page maximum. Moreover, you need to avoid using full-page app interstitial formats as Google will slow down your site and it will result in bad user experience. This is because full page app interstitial is considered as not mobile-friendly.

Limit Flash and Animated Content

Some people may think that using many flash and animation is awesome, however it can slow and clunky your website, besides Apple iOS devices natively does not support Flash so that your iPhone and iPad viewers cannot see the image. Therefore, you should minimize the amount as much as possible.

Page Speed Insights

There are several cool tool which is offered by Google freely that scans your site and tells you exactly what improvements to make, so this is a no brainer. Scan your site and make the necessary adjustments to improve your site’s speed.