Analyze Your Website Speed With Page Speed Online
Bloggers are increasing at a rapid pace. So it is getting tougher & tougher to compete in the blogging world. Every blogger’s goal is to get visitors as much as he can for their site. Bloggers should remember that content is the King. Again, the site’s design & site’s loading speed also play a vital role in keeping readers stuck on your site. A statistic said, “A new visitor stays in a new site for only 5 seconds “. If he stays more, it shows he loves the site’s structure & content. So the site’s loading time plays a vital part in this situation.
Page Speed Online is a Google Developers program. Its motto Make your website faster. It analyzes the content of a web page and then generates suggestions to make that page load faster. Reducing page load times can reduce bounce rates and increase conversion rates.
At first visit Page Speed Online site (https://developers.google.com/pagespeed/) & write your site URL (for example, http://www.techdesighn.com), then click analyze.
It will analyze your site & in a second add all the details. In the overview, it shows your meta description with Page Speed Score. The average site’s Page Speed Score is 83 (Out of 100). But it is not enough for a site’s performance. You must follow the suggestions & increase your site loading time according to the Page Speed Online instructions.
It will give you suggestions in 3 sections:
High priority:
These suggestions represent the largest potential performance wins for the least development effort. You should address these items first:
Leverage browser caching
Combine images into CSS sprites
Medium priority:
These suggestions may represent smaller wins or much more work to implement. You should address these items next:
Minimize redirects:
Enable compression
Optimize images
Defer parsing of JavaScript
Low priority:
These suggestions represent the smallest wins. You should only be concerned with these items after you’ve handled the higher-priority ones:
Optimize the order of styles and scripts, Avoid bad requests, Specify a cache validator, Minify JavaScript, Serve resources from a consistent URL, Inline Small CSS, Minify CSS, Minify HTML, Put CSS in the document head, Specify a character set, Remove query strings from static resources, Specify a Vary: Accept-Encoding header
Complete all these suggestions & check your site loading speed. I am sure you’ll be amazed to see your site’s loading performance.