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Site speed is a ranking factor for both desktop and mobile searches, so it’s important to make sure your pages load quickly. Do take note that some websites use site speed and page speed interchangeably. However, some websites say that site speed is different from page speed. Nevertheless, it’s important that the content on your webpage loads faster. This is to prevent your site visitors from leaving your website and going to your competitors. Optimizing images If you use a large image size, it will greatly affect your site speed. In this case, you need to reduce your image size. The trouble with reducing your image size though is that it also reduces its quality.
that let you decrease the size of your file without reducing its quality. To reduce your image size without compromising its quality, simply choose the right combination of your file format and compression type you will use. Ideally, your image’s file format CY Lists should be in PNG and at a medium compression rate. You can use the following tools when optimizing images for your webpage: Adobe Photoshop Gimp FileOptimizer ImageResizer.com ImageResizer ImageResizer.com dashboard Enabling browser caching The concept of browser caching is straightforward: it takes whatever files you define as files that don’t change often (such as your company logo and website menu) and downloads them once to the visitor’s browser.

This way, they don’t have to be redownloaded every single time they visit your website, making your webpages load much faster. There are three ways to go about this: Ask your web hosting provider You can contact your web hosting provider and have them edit your site’s .htaccess file. That way, you don’t have to touch anything in your website. Edit the .htaccess file yourself The header says it all. I wouldn’t recommend this unless you have knowledge on how to troubleshoot in case you make a mistake. If you’re using Yoast, here’s their guide. Use a plugin There are various plugins you can choose from that you’ll just download and activate.
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