Speed up Your Web Site and Increase Sales
Speed up Your Web Site and Increase Sales Your web sites loading
speed has a significant impact on your visitors' loyalty. A slow
web site will cost you sales. Most visitors won't wait more
than10 seconds for your web pages to load. Apply these
techniques to speed up your pages, keep potential buyers at your
site, and increase sales.
Six tips to speed up your web pages.
1.Give viewers something to read as quickly as possible.
2.Provide a lot of graphics or images only if you know your
audience has fast Internet connections. (Your load time will
vary depending on your visitors' access speed.) 3.If you're
targeting the general public, avoid large and unnecessary
graphics, animated graphics, sound, movies, Flash animation, and
large banners -- especially on your home page. (Graphics slow
your web pages down considerably.) 4.Use graphics and images
that support your sales message and illustrate the benefits of
your products or services. 5.Keep your pages short. Split up
long pages into several pages. Breaking up pages into several
pages also allows you to track which pages potential buyers go
to. 6.Avoid links to slow-loading pages.
Visitors like pictures without sacrificing speed. Apply these
tips to optimize your images.
- Keep images and graphics as small as possible, both in
dimensions and file size. The larger the file size, the longer
the images take to download. - Don