Overview
Does your website need a makeover? Is it really slow? Are people not visiting your site? These are a few signs that your website needs to be worked on. And Believe it or not, it doesn’t take much time to upgrade a site. Lets look into a few ways we can identify and fix these projects.
Does your website work on mobile?
This is called responsive web design, many big company’s often have a separate interface developed exclusively for mobile platforms. While its harder to make a already existing site responsive compared to making a new one, but here are some pointers.
- Disable large images from loading on mobile websites.
- create a separate navigation bar for mobile and tablet users.
- reduce the size of files on your site.
A lot of search engines rank your site based off of the responsiveness of your site, as a lot of people are browsing the web from their phone. Having a more responsive site means people can navigate easier on their mobile devices.
How fast is your website?
The speed of your site can also dictate search rankings. Now obliviously you don’t want to browse a sluggish webpage, A slow website also consumes more server resources. So if your host is raising prices on you, and your site is slow, this may be why. Lets look some things you can do to make our site better.
- Use a cache. A cache can increase the load times dramatically, As the client (web browser) doesn’t have to reach out for every file, only the changed ones.
- Minimize/combine JavaScript and remove unused files. Code minimizing condenses the code all into one line, which makes it easier for a computer to read as it doesn’t have to jump from line to line.
- Use external sources to host images and videos. Lets say you run a photography business, you probably have photos you’ve taken displayed on your website. These images and videos add up quickly and increase load times on your website. Videos are also a targeting point for DDoS as they can dramatically increase the targeting of your site.
There are a lot of cases were people lose traffic on their site because of performance issues.