Increase your site traffic by decreasing your site load time

DECREASE

LOAD TIME

Increase trafficBy Bloglosophy

A 1-second

increase in

load time

=

11% less

page views

People walk

away-----bye bye!

Image by Davide Ragusa

Go test your

load time on

Pingdom.com

Was it over 3 seconds?

YES

NO

Keep reading

Keep reading anyway

5 TASKS for you to do right now!

1 2 3 4 5

PLUGINS IMAGES POSTS CACHING SIDEBAR

Less than 10 plugins?

Give yourself a gold star!

More than 10 plugins?

Start pruning!

1 PLUGINS

Keep the essentials and ditch the rest

WARNING: make sure it is not a plugin that is in use - that could create an issue if removed

The less plugins you have

=

the faster your site will load

72 res

+

2 IMAGES

Images must be

under 100kb

+

The exact width of your

post area

Before loading them

3 POSTS

a

b

c

On your dashboard, go to Settings/reading

Look at Blog pages show

Change it to 6 – less to load, less load time!!

4 CACHE PLUGIN

A well-

configured

cache plugin

will keep your

blog mean, lean

and speedy

5 SIDEBAR

Clean up that

sidebar – leave

only the

essentials.

Every single

item has to

load with every

single page.

De-clutter it -

you will do

yourself and

your readers a

favor.

Image by Davide Ragusa

Now Go back

and test your

load time on

Pingdom.com

Better?

Of course it is.

Simple

wasn’t it?

from

www.bloglosophy.com