How to Boost the Performance of Your Website to Promote it in Search Engines – First Part
Thursday, October 8, 2009 4:28
There is no denying to the fact that slow-performing websites are unlikely to draw attention from search engine spiders. As a result, they grope in the darkness of crowds of other websites. Performance of a website depends on several technical facets one of which is loading efficiency. Fast-loading websites make it easily to the top of search engine result pages. After much googling, I have turned up with a series of guidelines to help you boost the performance of your website.
The front-end of a website takes eighty percent of the end-user response. Most of the user time is spent on downloading images, scripts, stylesheets, flash etc. in web pages. The less the number of these webpage components is the less is the number of HTTP requests. With the reduced number of HTTP requests, a web browser renders web pages at fast pace. Simplifying the design of a webpage is a means to cut down the number of webpage components and speed up the loading of web pages. Some techniques are there to build web pages with richer content that requires a few HTTP requests to render.
A single script that is combined of all scripts and a single stylesheet that is combined of all CSS are the ways to improve the response of a web server to HTTP requests of a web browser. CSS Sprites are another method to reduce image requests in number. Combine the background images to form a single image. It is recommended using the CSS background image to display the image segment. Use Image maps to create a single image by combining multiple images of almost the same size. Combine inline images to form a single stylesheet that in turn, reduces the number of HTTP requests. But, not all major browsers support inline images.
The user’s closeness to the web server of yours has a bearing on the response time of the server. Deployment of your content across several servers that are geographically dispersed will speed up the loading of your pages for the user’s benefit. Redesigning the web application working in a distributed architecture is not recommended to implement geographically dispersed content. Changing the architecture is a daunting task including replicating database transactions and synchronizing session rate across server locations. The nature of efforts to lessen the distance between your content and users depends on the nature of an application architecture setup.
Decreasing the number of HTTP requests and reducing the number of webpage components are easier than redesigning the application architecture to boost the performance of your website. Moreover, using a content delivery network that is a set of web servers dispersed across several locations is a better than the best option to ensure the loading of heavy websites at fast pace. These hard-core technological techniques are sure to ensure the loading efficiency of your website. The fast-loading website will easily get promoted in search engines.
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