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Page Speed Optimization is Important
How fast your pages load is important to all visitors and therefor the major search engines. Google even offers a range of tools to help you improve your page speed. That’s how important it is. Faster pages lead to more sales.
How Slow is My Site?
There are a range of tools that can be used to set a baseline of performance before beginning an optimization project.
- http://www.webpagetest.org/
- https://www.pingdom.com/free/
- http://gtmetrix.com/
- http://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/
These tools help you really dig in and focus on the improvements that will really make a difference.
Speed Slowdown Solution
Where can we look for speed optimization improvements?
- Your web hosting server
- Your CMS
- Your configurations and settings
- Your code
- Your content
- Your DNS provider
When you get into the solutions, you will find words and phrases like; DNS Lookups, HTTP requests, gzip compression, image size, redirects, broken links, image dimensions, CDN (content delivery network), and out of date software.
Speed Solution Scenario
A thriving local pest control company was seeing page load speeds of up to 6 seconds a page. We provided an audit, determined where to focus and started optimizing. The client was thrilled to see page load speeds under 2 seconds. If you pages are taking over 2 seconds to load, we would be happy to provide an audit to show you what kind of improvement is possible.