SEO Tips: How To Reduce Page Load Time For Blog

The speed at which your blog loads is very important for your blog readers. If the blog takes a long time to load, the readers

may leave the blog before they read it. The best loading time for a blog/website is 5 to 8 seconds. You need to reduce the load time for your blog for better Visibility. 

Here are some very important tips for reducing the blog load time.

1. Reduce No. of Posts displayed on Home Page

Your blog load time can be effected by the no. of post displayed on home page. Normally 5-7 posts should be displayed on home page for better performance. More than 7 posts can increase the load time. You can easily reduce the no. of posts on the home page by going to Blogger dashboard > Settings > Posts and Comments. Here is an option of "show at most" where you can set the no. of posts displayed on home page.

2. Minify Javascripts, HTML and CSS

Minification is a process of removing unnecessary data from your blog coded document e.g code comments and formatting, removing unused code etc.

You should minify your blog Javascript, CSS and HTML resources. There are many online tools for reducing Javascript, CSS and HTML resources. For HTML minification, you can use http://www.willpeavy.com/minifier/. For CSS minification, you can use http://cssminifier.com or YUI Compressor. For Javascript minification, you can use YUI Compressor or Closure Compiler. 

3. Optimize Images of your Blog

Images play an important role in blog loading speed. Large images with large pixels takes more time to load than small images. You should take the following steps for image optimization:

a. Always use the images with Jpeg format.

b. Use alt tags and title tags for images.

c. Never use thumbnails in your blog posts.

d. Make sure that your image size is small but reasonable. 

e. Place a caption on your image.

f. You can use any online image optimization service to improve your blog images. The best online image optimization service is kraken 

4. Use Separate Pages for each topic

Excessive content on a single page can increase the load on your blog. Always use separate pages for each topic for example, if you plan to write posts on different topics, make pages for each topic and put the posts on that specific page. 

5. Use Light Template

Blog template plays a key role on the loading speed. Always try to use simple templates rather than using more colorful and heavy templates.   

6. Use minimum no. of ads on blog

If you want to monetize your blog with services like Google adsense, Infolinks etc, you should use minimum no. of ads on a page usually between 2-4 ads. 

7. Check Your page speed online

The last and the most important tip: Check your blog/website speed online at GTMetrix or Pingdom. These services deeply analyses your blog/website and give you suggestions to optimize the blog. These suggestions covers all the important areas of your blog which needs optimization.  

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