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Speed up my website

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Hi, can anyone tell me how to speed up my website? It takes far too long to load. and also that it is not responsive on mobile. How can I fix this issue? 
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The smaller the homepage (number of bytes to download) the longer the time to load.
The slower your own coding that’s executed to fully download the homepage and the server it runs on, the longer the time to load.
So that are 2 things to optimize.

Making a site responsive generally means a full recoding in a suitable framework.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by kees_b.
• This reply was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by kees_b.

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Page Speed, Mobile Friendly, and Responsive design; are the factors that affect in your website speed performance. To fix this issue, consider below things:

1. Reduce no. of plugins
2. Minimize JS/CSS files
3. Optimize the size of images
4. Setup Cloudflare
5. Lazyload your images
6. Remove render-blocking javascript etc.

Apart from this, test your website speed performance by using Lighthouse. Lighthouse is a dev tool, that will audit your entire website & provide detailed information to increase the speed of your website.

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Use a Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Move your website to a better host.
Optimize the size of images on your website.
Reduce the number of plugins.
Minimize the number of JavaScript and CSS files.
Use website caching.
Implement Gzip Compression.
Database optimization in CMS.

Regards,
Jimmy

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There are many ways to speed up a website and make it more responsive.
1. Unoptimized and large images can slow down your website so compress or optimize the images by using Smush or Kraken.
2. You can use a caching plugin like W3 Total Cache or WP Super Cache to enable caching on your website.
3. Minifying your CSS and JavaScript files can help reduce their size and speed up your website. You can use a plugin such as Autoptimize to minify your resources.
4. Your database can accumulate a lot of unnecessary data that slow down your website. You can use a plugin like WP-Optimize to clean up your database and improve your website’s performance.
5. Use a Content Management System(CMS) like WordPress, it’s lightweight and fast.

Speed up my website

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Minify CSS & Javascript files, Optimise images, Clear all cache, Reduce number of HTTPS Requests. This is the only way to speed up the website.

Loading speed

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Visiting a website, everyone expects a convenient user experience. One the primary factors for user satisfaction is website loading speed. If your platform is slow, the bounce rates can increase.

The website speed depends on the quantity of media files, installed themes and plugins, and server-side scripts. Moreover, it influences your site ranking in Google.

To evaluate the quality of loading, you can use Google PageSpeed Insights. With it, you can measure your website performance on desktop and mobile devices.

So, if your platform is really slow, try to implement the following practicies:

1. Choose a performance-focused hosting provider
2. Reduce the number of redirects and avoid unnecessary ones
3. Adjust your images weght by optimizing their size and formats
4. Use browser caching
5. Optimize CSS, JavaScript, and HTML

Tips to Speed Up a Website

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There are many ways to speed up a website:
Reduce image size: Large images can significantly slow down your website. Use image compression tools to reduce the file size of your images without compromising quality.
Minimize HTTP requests: Reduce the number of HTTP requests required to load your website by minimizing the number of scripts, style sheets, and other resources.
Use a Content Delivery Network (CDN): A CDN can help speed up your website by caching content on servers around the world, reducing the distance between your website and your visitors.
Enable browser caching: Enable caching to allow the browser to store certain website files so that they don’t need to be downloaded every time a user visits your website.
Minimize code and remove unnecessary plugins:
If you are using a WordPress website then you have to remove unnecessary plugins. Because they can slow down your website speed.
Optimize your database: Optimize your database by cleaning up unnecessary data and optimizing tables.
Use a faster web host: Choose a web host that offers faster loading times. Faster web host helps to load in milliseconds.

Minimize the content

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your website takes too long to load because it takes to load all images, videos & content to puts on your website. so make sure to incorporate minimum images, videos & content if those are in high quality. Because lots of high quality contents, images & videos are takes some amount of time to load. so get use of this.

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The following things could help you in increasing your website speed: Use a content delivery network (CDN) like Cloudflare to cache static assets. Try to make the server less busy. Perform code minification on the server side. Use gzip compression.

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