How To Improve Your Websites Speed and Performance
After publishing your website, you are going to find that there are a few things that you have to deal with. Some things will not manifest until after you publish things. Website hosting is an easy thing to get, but the problems that manifest after the fact shine light on issues that many aren’t sure how to move forward with. If you are having issues, you should know the warning signs mentioned below. These issues may be easily fixed by the website hosing provider that you are using, or you may find that you have to do something to help your cause. Knowing is half the battle when it comes to dealing with issues that may plague your website. The following are just some of the most common issues that you may have to deal with.
Slow Loading Scripting
The first thing that you are going to see is in regards to the loading of your website. If you go to your website and it’s loading very slowly. Take note to see what exactly is the issue. The most common problem here is in regards to the scripting that you’re using. Javascript, ASP, and PHP can all cause load time issues if not done concise and correctly. In fact, Javascript especially can be heavy on the web. You have to find a balance between the languages so that you are not bogging down your website. The code matters, but more importantly, the load time. Why is load time so important? Well, the latest SEO algorithm pushes in regards to marketing have created more attention to mobile loading times, so you’re going to have to pay attention to this carefully.
The Shared Hosting Problem
In the same idea of slow loading pages, you may find your website is part of shared hosting. Shared hosting is interesting, as it is something that is still done today. When you have a website hosted on a server, make sure that you ask about capacity. If you’re going to go with a website hosting provider that still practices “Shared” hosting at a discount, then you are essentially going to be renting a digital apartment in a building. What this means is that your site will have a digital piece of real estate that you rent on a larger server. You will have neighboring pages, and the promise of unlimited space and unlimited bandwidth for your website may still apply. The problem here is that some companies will overload the servers. You’ll have too many sites on a server, or you will have a neighbor that will be doing something illegal and cripple your page. Slow loading pages are often attributed to the fact that shared hosting is going awry. You can ask to be moved to another server if this is in face the problem. Moving your website and files is a good idea if this is truly the issue.
Compressing Big Images
One of the hardest things for people to understand is in regards to images. Too often, people update a website and instead of optimizing images beforehand, they upload and then script them to resize. There are several pieces of code that will resize your images into thumbnails, but that’s not a good plan. Do not do this. Even though your images will visually look smaller to the end user, the full size will have to load. That will cause your website to load incredibly slow. The more images that you have like this, the slower your loading times will become, causing serious issues to your loading times, your hosting, and more. Website images that are uploaded properly will not have this issue. If you are going to connect thumbnails to larger views, make sure that you optimize both images ahead of time, and then link to them through scripting. Do not update your website with giant images and then make them smaller through scripting.
Your Website Has Been Hacked
Perhaps the most elusive of issues, this is a problem that many people face. Your website may get hacked. There’s no real way to know this until you start to look under the hood of your website. Look at the code, and you may see an iframe in place underneath your scripting. You may also see a redirect on your home page. Whatever the case is, your site will load incredibly slow and you will have a lot of issues moving forward. It’s for that reason that you should look into having backups in place, and ask for help with this overall. It’s something that can be fixed, but if it happens, your website will fail to load properly.
