: Ideas to improve website loading speed? Are there any ways in which I can improve the loading speed of a website? I know that Google is really pushing loading speeds and with the popularity

@Candy875

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@Sarah324

Yahoo's tips for improving page sped
Google's tips for improving page speed
If you're using PHP, Google's tips for making PHP faster


Here's a basic list as comprised from Google's Page Speed addon (here's Yahoo's YSlow):


Leverage browser caching
Specify image dimensions
Avoid CSS @import
Avoid bad requests
Combine images into CSS sprites
Defer parsing of JavaScript
Enable Keep-Alive
Enable compression
Inline Small CSS
Inline Small JavaScript
Make landing page redirects cacheable
Minify CSS
Minify HTML
Minify JavaScript
Minimize redirects
Minimize request size
Optimize images
Optimize the order of styles and scripts
Prefer asynchronous resources
Put CSS in the document head
Remove query strings from static resources
Serve resources from a consistent URL
Serve scaled images
Specify a Vary: Accept-Encoding header
Specify a cache validator
Specify a character set
Defer loading of JavaScript
Remove unused CSS
Use efficient CSS selectors


I strongly recommend using either Google's or Yahoo's page speed add-ons to test out your pages. It's fast and easy to do and offers clear guidance on how to improve your page speeds.

update

As recommended by Nick in the comments here are some more good resources and information:


Steve Souder's tips and book:
Facebook's go-to references when they first optimised their site


update 2

Here's come good stats that shows why page speed is important (source)



Amazon: 100 ms delay caused a drop in revenue.
Google: 400 ms delay caused a 0.59% decrease in search requests per
user.
Yahoo!: 400 ms delay caused a 5-9% decrease in traffic.
Bing: 2 seconds delay caused a 4.3% drop in revenue per user.
Mozilla made their download page 2.2 seconds faster and was rewarded with
an increase of 15.4% in
downloads.
Google Maps reduced the file volume by 30% and observed a 30% increase in
map requests.
Netflix, which uses Appdynamics to monitor their performance, enabled
gzip on the server; simply by this
single action pages became 13-25%
faster and saved 50% of traffic
volume!
Shopzilla succeeded in reducing the loading time from 7 down to 2 seconds,
whereby the conversion rate increased
by 7-12%, they observed a 25%
increase in page requests, they were
able to retire 50% of their
servers, thus saving energy
costs.
AOL observed the number of page views on several websites. While
the fastest users requested 7-8 pages,
the slowest only viewed 3-4.
Edmunds got down from over 10 seconds to less than 2, adding 17%
page views and increasing revenue by
3%.

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