The internet speeds are very high today. With the advancement in internet technology and web development; there is no reason why your website should be slow. Users are very impatient and a statistics show that 90% of the users will close the browser or move to a different site if a website they are trying to open takes longer than 5 seconds to open. If your website loads slowly, here are few reason that may be causing it.

HTML Code
A shabby written HTML code can make a website load very slowly. The browser first reads and interprets the HTML code of the website before displaying it. Hence it essential to have a clean written HTML code. Some tips for writing good HTML code are:

 
     
  • Using External stylesheet (CSS file) instead of inline styles
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  •  Getting rid of unnecessary tags and white spaces
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  • Using External JavaScript files
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  • Coding using a div based layout rather than the archaic table-based method
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  • Performing client side form verification with JavaScript rather than server side
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  • Checking how the website performs on different browsers
 

Images and Flash
Images use a lot of bandwidth to load. Certain times you may notice that a websites content loads however the images take a while. If your website uses a lot of images it is better to optimize the images and include in your website. Few ways of optimizing the images are resizing, cropping, changing images format, reducing the quality and/or using CSS to load them

 

Flash is a great way to add animation or interactivity to a website. However, flash application can tend be very huge causing a website to load slowly. While Flash protect the code, its file sizes are huge and it is not search engine friendly. HTML5/CSS3 is a great replacement for flash.

Slow Web Host
If the server on which your website is hosted does not have the bandwidth, disk space and capacity to handle the requests being made to your website, it will end up making your website slow. Most web hosting company do shared hosting on low resource hardware. While shared hosting is not bad and acceptable, overloading a server is. Think of it this way, a hatchback car which can carry 4 people comfortably has 15 people stuffed in it. By overloading a server with tons of website, the hosting companies limit the bandwidth each website should get, eventually slowing loading times of web pages.

 

The tracert command is helpful to identify network and ISP route related situation. You can read about tracert command by clicking this link

 

At groupaaa.com, we recognize the importance of speed. We limit the number of website on our servers so that each website can have extremely high-speed. We also make sure that our servers should be equipped with latest hardware and service packs of software..

In conclusion, a slow loading website is a test of user’s patience and it is necessary to optimize the website to make it faster.