5 Tips to Speed Up Your Website
Author
Jeff Kershner
Date Published
Simple optimizations that can dramatically improve your page load times.
Website speed directly impacts user experience, SEO rankings, and conversion rates. Studies show that a one-second delay in page load time can result in a 7% reduction in conversions. Here are five practical tips to make your site faster.
1. Optimize Your Images
Images often account for the majority of a page's total size. Use modern formats like WebP, compress images before uploading, and implement lazy loading to defer off-screen images.
2. Enable Browser Caching
Set proper cache headers so returning visitors do not need to re-download static assets. This can reduce load times by 50% or more for repeat visits.
3. Use a CDN
A Content Delivery Network distributes your content across servers worldwide, serving files from the location closest to each visitor. Every site built by Doory includes Cloudflare CDN at no extra cost.
4. Minify CSS and JavaScript
Remove unnecessary whitespace, comments, and code from your CSS and JavaScript files. Most build tools and WordPress plugins can handle this automatically.
5. Choose Quality Hosting
No amount of optimization can overcome a slow server. Modern infrastructure, edge computing, and optimized software stacks form the foundation of a fast website.
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