Tips To Speed Up Your Blog Load Time

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Web page loading time is one of the most important part of a website or blog and Search engines penalize the blog for having slow loading time. And thus, it comes out to be the most important thing that any blogger must take care of. This can be achieved by performing various operations on your blog or in other words, Tweaking your blog. There are many ways in which you can achieve this and I will like to discuss the main points here that will definitely help you!

Tips to Speed up your Blog:

1. Compress your CSS- CSS is one of the most important part of any web page as it provides it with the look the page has and often we end up writing very long CSS codes. And thus, it takes more time for the web page to load. You can easily achieve this task by following our older post over here
   
   
   
   • Compress your CSS Code : Load your Blog Fast 
   
   
   
   


2. Use Caching Plugin- Caching is a technique in which you save a cache of all the web pages on your blog, which load faster as they are static pages and do not require much time to load. It is highly recommended to use a Caching Plugin like W3 Total Cache or the WP Super Cache. Both plugins work good but we prefer the former.


3. Limit the number of Images- Images are something that take a long time to load as they are heavy sometimes. So make sure you use minimal images or use small sized images wherever required. While giving a tutorial, you would definitely need to give images as an image is worth a thousand words but you can avoid unnecessary images on your homepage or other pages.


4. Use a fast theme- A fast theme is one which everyone likes. And a theme will be fast if it uses very less images and has a concise CSS file. You might consider using the famous Thesis Framework as it has proven to be one of the fastest theme frameworks for WordPress.


5. Disable unwanted Plugins- Use only those plugins that you really need. There is no point in using a plugin because a top-blog uses it. You need to analyse the plugin and see if you use it, what are it's pros and cons and then finally decide whether to use it or not.


6. Split long posts into pages- Whenever you write a very long post, you might want to consider this. Splitting your post into pages allows every page to be small in size, which is good loading time. Also, it make the post easily understandable for the reader. Read our post here to know how you can do that!
   
   
   
   • Split a Post in Wordpress : No Plugin Required
   
   
   
   

Well, I hope these ways help you speed up your Blog to some extent. You can use the following two websites to know how good your website loading is. One is the famous Pingdom Tools and the other is Google PageSpeed. See you around. Subscribe to TechHive updates via email or RSS or Facebook and stay in touch with us!