In order to increase the speed of your website you need to find out how slow or fast it is to begin with. Once you figure that out you’re going to want to know how to make it faster. One quick and simple way to increase the speed of your website is to optimize your website. Check the sizes of the images that you put up and try to shrink them down as much as possible. This will help your site run faster. When naming these images in the site make sure they are named appropriately because the search engines will pick up whatever you decide to name it.

One big problem that causes websites to run slow is the hosting company. Before launching a website be sure to know as much as possible about the company and what they have to offer. Minimize the amount of interactive images or animation on the site, because that will cause your site to run slow as well. Ensuring that all plug-ins and software applications are up to date will increase the activity of your site.

By boosting the speed of your website, the odds of a viewer leaving because it is slow, is decreased. Sometimes clearing out the cache on your browser will help increase the speed as well as leverage browser caching. Check all your links and make sure that there aren’t any broken links. Any broken URLs can cause a decrease in speed and should be fixed.

Windy City Web Designs can help increase the speed and performance of our website. Contact us today to find out how we can help your business succeed and grow online.

By Alisha Lowans