Studies show that when a web page doesn't load within three seconds 25% of visitors will already have left. A slow website or even a delay when loading a web page is guaranteed to lose visitors and therefore also potential customers. Testing and optimizing page speed is essential. Make use of the tools and techniques you can find on this website to optimize the performance of your website.
Fully optimize your website performance. Learn more about different page speed techniques below.
Reduce the size of web files served from a server by an average of 50-70%.
Optimize CSS delivery for faster page rendering by inlining, defer loading, compressing and learning what, and what not to do.
Defer load CSS scripts to render web pages quicker.
Leverage browser caching to speed up your website. Learn about the methods that allow you to enable caching server side and client side.
Defer load your JavaScript files to improve page load times.
Instantly render the critical CSS by calling it from the HTML head. Avoid render-blocking CSS files.
Make fewer HTTP requests to minimize parallel downloads by reducing the number of files a web page needs to render a page.
Learn how to detect and remove JavaScript that a web page doesn't necessarily need to function correctly.
Reduce the amount of image files a web page is loading by combining or replacing them.
Optimize the critical rendering path to speed up the initial above-the-fold view visitors see when loading a web page.
Lazy load images by only loading them when the visitor is about to view them. This speeds up the loading of the above-the-fold content.
Optimize images by reducing their file size to a bare minimum without losing image quality.
Optimize a WordPress website by using various plugins, tricks and methods.
Detect and fix all broken links, images and other files to improve performance. Broken requests can slow your website down.
Which type of hosting is best for performance? Shared, VPS, dedicated or another type?
Learn how to speed up an Apache server by tweaking its settings and using free applications.
Inline (smaller) JavaScript to improve page load times.
Avoid using CSS @import to load external CSS files to avoid slowing a web page down.
Load scripts asynchronously to improve page load times.
Avoid loading big JavaScript libraries like Jquery for website functionalities when possible.
Use a Content Delivery Network to achieve the fastest response and download times.
Make sure keep-alive is enabled to allow multiple browser connections without using multiple TCP connections.
Avoid using unnecessary redirects, stop them from slowing your website down.
Use one of the below tools to improve the performance of your website.
Minimize CSS scripts to improve page speed.
Analyze if JavaScript is being optimally delivered on a website.
Minify JavaScript to maximize performance.
Test whether Gzip or Brotli compression is enabled on your website.
Test if images being loaded on your website can be optimized.
Reduce the file size of PNG images while keeping the image quality.
Adjust the quality and/or size of JPEG images to reduce their file size.
Save multiple images to a single image, resulting in fewer HTTP requests.
Check if and how all the files loaded on your website are being properly cached.
Test a web page for broken links and requests.
How many HTTP requests does a web page make?
Encode web files to a Base64 string to reduce the number of HTTP requests.
Check whether a website has keep-alive enabled.
Remove line breaks from scripts to reduce their size.
Check the HTTP server header of a web page.