There are things that you can do to improve the speed of your web pages:
- Choose a fast and reliable web host with a good connection to the Internet. A very "cheap" web host could cause problems.
- If your web server supports it, enable gZip compression (your web host can do that for you).
- Use as few images as possible on your website and compress your images. Most graphic tools enable you to choose the compression rate when saving an image for the web.
- Put tracking codes and other JavaScript snippets at the end of your web pages.
- Combine external JavaScript code files into one file. The fewer files the server has to request, the faster your web pages will load.
- Compress your JavaScript code to make the JavaScript file smaller.
- Combine external CSS files into one file and compress your CSS files.
And remember:
The average web surfer wants immediate results.
