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How To Check Loading Speed Of a Blog?
We have some best tools which we help us in knowing the loading time of a blog. Below are the links of that tools. Simply go there, enter your blog URL, press Enter and wait a little to get the result.
So these are some tools to test the speed of a website. Now if you're going good with your blog then surely you will get the good result. If you get more than 80 marks then you don't need to do anything. If it is less then you should follow the below given tips.
Tips To Reduce The Loading Speed Of Blog
1. Choose The Proper Template For Your Blog
Before choosing any theme of template for your blog, You have to properly analyze that template. You have to check that a template is well coded or not, See the usage of JavaScript and JQuery and check it is not over designed.
2. Avoid Too Much Use Of JavaScript
JavaScript is the web programming language which is really heavy coding. If takes time to be loaded by the browsers. I strongly recommend you to don't use too much JavaScript on your blog. It doesn't mean you should leave using JavaScript but use it not too much.
3. Compress JavaScript and StyleSheet
This is another working tip. You've to compress the JavaScript and StyleSheet in your theme or template. After compressing, the code will be shorted and it's memory will be decreased. Actually, It will remove the spaces from the whole code because they are not needed and also re-write the same code properly. Below are the links of JavaScript and StyleSheet compressor tools. And don't forget to take backup of your blog.
3. Compress JavaScript and StyleSheet
This is another working tip. You've to compress the JavaScript and StyleSheet in your theme or template. After compressing, the code will be shorted and it's memory will be decreased. Actually, It will remove the spaces from the whole code because they are not needed and also re-write the same code properly. Below are the links of JavaScript and StyleSheet compressor tools. And don't forget to take backup of your blog.
4. Don't Use Too Much Images In Template
Make sure your template is not images based or it is not using too much images. Images are another things that makes a blog even more heavy so you've to analyze your template and avoid to use a few number of images in the design.
5. Use Less Than 5 Images In a Single Post
Images are an important role of SEO which helps us in driving organic traffic from image search engines. Look at the title, I recommend you to use less than five images in a single because each image has separate memory and your blog will take time to load images.
6. Resize Images In a Post
When you come to the featured image or screenshot in any post of your blog then you've to resize the image with any image editor. I recommend to use PhotoShop and PhotoScape. When you will upload the full size image in your post then post editor will automatically make it short with CSS and it will work cool but browser always loads the full image.
7. Don't Implement Too Much Widgets - Use Necessary Widgets
Widgets are another things that can be the reason of a lazy speed blog. I've seen the worst mistake of newbies that they implement each and every kind of widget in their blog so if you are also one of them then you should use the necessary widgets only.
8. Don't Make Your Blog a Place Of Ads
This is another worst mistake which is being done by newbies that they join the many small ad networks and implement all ads everywhere in their blog. Those ads are also being being shown with the use of JavaScript so I recommend you to show less than five ads in your blog.
9. Avoid Popup Widgets, Ads and Subscriptions
If you look for the benefit with popup feature then you will surely get benefit from it but at the other hand, pop up is not good for the load speed. I suggest you to try another methods to increase subscriptions and don't use pop up ads because mostly they're prohibited and they also affect on load time.
10. Show Minimum Number Of Posts On Homepage
The last and the most important tip is that you've to show the minimum number of posts on the homepage. As you can see our own homepage there you will not get more than eight posts. So in this tip, you should show less than eight posts on the homepage. If you're using Blogger then you can do it by editing the blog widget in the layout section.
Make sure your template is not images based or it is not using too much images. Images are another things that makes a blog even more heavy so you've to analyze your template and avoid to use a few number of images in the design.
5. Use Less Than 5 Images In a Single Post
Images are an important role of SEO which helps us in driving organic traffic from image search engines. Look at the title, I recommend you to use less than five images in a single because each image has separate memory and your blog will take time to load images.
6. Resize Images In a Post
When you come to the featured image or screenshot in any post of your blog then you've to resize the image with any image editor. I recommend to use PhotoShop and PhotoScape. When you will upload the full size image in your post then post editor will automatically make it short with CSS and it will work cool but browser always loads the full image.
7. Don't Implement Too Much Widgets - Use Necessary Widgets
Widgets are another things that can be the reason of a lazy speed blog. I've seen the worst mistake of newbies that they implement each and every kind of widget in their blog so if you are also one of them then you should use the necessary widgets only.
8. Don't Make Your Blog a Place Of Ads
This is another worst mistake which is being done by newbies that they join the many small ad networks and implement all ads everywhere in their blog. Those ads are also being being shown with the use of JavaScript so I recommend you to show less than five ads in your blog.
9. Avoid Popup Widgets, Ads and Subscriptions
If you look for the benefit with popup feature then you will surely get benefit from it but at the other hand, pop up is not good for the load speed. I suggest you to try another methods to increase subscriptions and don't use pop up ads because mostly they're prohibited and they also affect on load time.
10. Show Minimum Number Of Posts On Homepage
The last and the most important tip is that you've to show the minimum number of posts on the homepage. As you can see our own homepage there you will not get more than eight posts. So in this tip, you should show less than eight posts on the homepage. If you're using Blogger then you can do it by editing the blog widget in the layout section.
Final Words
So my dear friends, these were some effective tips which I wanted to share with all of you. I also tried these all tips and got the good result. Kshitij, Blogger Yard has got 86 score out of 100 on Google Page Insights. You must try these all tips and I'm sure you will get the good result. If any problem then feel free to ask in the comment area.
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