8 Easy Steps to Slow Down your Website / Blog’s Speed
In my previous post, I wrote about 12 Steps to your Blog’s Failure. Now, Let’s start slowing down our website or blog’s loading speed.
It is very simple and there is no hard steps to do it. It will be simple to lose your website / blog’s traffic. Here are those 8 easy steps.
- More Javascript Include as much javascript code as you can in your web page. This will surely increase your webpage’s total size. And hence the loading time will be much more.
- More CSS Once you have included more CSS codes/files in your web page, it is easy to slow down your website’s loading speed.
- Embed Multimedia Multimedia files include Flash content, Audio Files, Video Files, etc. When including or embedding such files in your web page, it will increase the burden by means of size and more server requests.
- Include Images Including images is not a big issue. But including as much images or flooding your webpage full of images will do the rest by slowing down the speed.
- More Database Queries In dynamic web pages which uses languages like PHP, PERL, etc., start querying your database everytime without having much reasons. This will burden your database server with full of requests and will surely benefit your competitor.
- Use Erroneous Scripts/Code This is one easy method. When the server faces any such erroneous script/ code, it will be in much confusion to solve it and will just flood your web server with error log files (more burden for server).
- No Compression Don’t use any compression techniques in your webpages. This will not only increase your web page size. But will also increase your web server’s burden on responding to more requests from your web page.
- No Cache Don’t ever cache any of your website’s content. Contents like CSS, JS, etc. can be avoided to cache in client’s computer. Hence, everytime when he/she requests for the entire webpage content, the web browser will fetch everything from the starting point to ending point.
One final word is just give more burden to your web server with full of requests and see the failure result.
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Sep 06, 2009 @ 2:38 AM
More images is the most common mistakes because many people don’t compress the images before upload, usually 20 – 50kb rather 100kb – 200kb or has at up to 1MB – 2MB
Sep 07, 2009 @ 7:43 PM
@1800 SaiGon,
Well said dude.
Nov 20, 2009 @ 12:35 AM
Nice post. You twist it upside down friends. Creative
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Nov 20, 2009 @ 10:47 PM
@steppinout,
Thanks buddy. This is one of my favourite writing style.
Nov 21, 2009 @ 11:38 AM
i agree with you @karthikeyan this is the issue from all the blogger or website.. they do not care all the factor. so, this is the ideal situation of improving blogging
http://alisoft7.blogspot.com see own blog as an example
i tried myself
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Nov 25, 2009 @ 9:55 AM
@Ali Qayyum,
Your blog is well prepared Ali. If you come out of Blogspot, then you can go much higher with the speed.
Nov 25, 2009 @ 2:48 PM
I use WP Super Cache to take care of these issues. Caching and compression are taken care of this plugin
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