Blog speed is an integral part of a blog's Traffic strategy. Blogs that load faster and quickly
taking less time to display all elements, increase readership, search
engine traffic and thus revenue. A Good blog design with poor load time
means waste of efforts and time. Not everyone uses fast internet
connection or LAN or Wi-Fi. With the advent of smart phone technology,
Mobile internet use is increasing every single month and leaving behind
Computer internet connection in Market demand. Browsers have made
themselves compatible with iPhone, Android, blackberry and Windows
Phone. People living in USA are biggest consumers of smart phones. USA
is amongst top three countries which has largest internet users. In
order to attract more traffic from USA as well as UK and Asia, you need
to make sure your blog loads quickly and its design is compatible with
major browsers like Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer8. In this
series I will share some rarely shared secrets that web designers use to
ensure their designed website templates take less time to load instead
of forcing the visitor to wait for several seconds. We will be sharing
every tip we applied to reduce load time of MyBloggerTricks.
An ideal load time is as minimum as 5-8 seconds but
achieving such timing is rare as we can't sacrifice blog design a lot
for the sake of a boost in loading time. We will therefore ensure to
keep design of blog neat and clean by adopting smart ways of optimizing
the scripts and images. Graphic Images, third-party widgets, plugins, JavaScript and JQuery are responsible for 80% of slow load time in both blogger and Wordpress blogs. Our purpose would be to optimize them all.
Following is the list of topics we will discuss in this fresh new series:
Blog Load Speed Series
Part1: Disadvantages Of Slow Loading Blogs
Part2: Optimize Images In Blogger To Increase Load Speed - CSS Sprites
Part3: Decrease Load Time By Optimizing JavaScript - How Many scripts allowed?
Par4: Which Widgets You Must Use In Blogger For Faster Load Time?
Disadvantages of Slow Loading Blogs
Following
are some points that highlight possible pit falls linked with slow
loading web pages or slow website speed that effects your blogs ranking,
revenue and readership:
- Discourage visitors to stay longer thus increasing bounce rates
- Decreases PageViews. People wont navigate the blog a lot and would tend to leave it as soon as possible
- Drop in PageViews means drop in Page Impressions thus serious loss in Advertising revenue
- You wont get targeted sponsors if your page views are less than 2-3K
- Ad spots can not be sold at higher prices
- People wont share your content on social media networks
- Visitor wont turn into reader and thus no increase in the number of subscribers
- Fan following on Facebook, Twitter and Google+ would increase at a slow rate
- People would tend to read your Feeds than preferring visiting your blog. Again this effects your Blog PageViews because Feed visits do not count a lot except for Adsense
- Search robots can skip indexing a page which is too dense and filled with scripts and graphics
- Search Rankings for a page is badly damaged
- Google loves serving its users with quick loading sites and penalizes those which take longer time to load
- Traffic from Internet Explorer would suffer due to browser crashing. IE often crashes when the page takes a longer time to load
- Traffic from smart phones would decrease because mobile internet connections are not very fast. People love to visit sites that can be browsed easily and quickly using their handsets
- So on...
What's Next?
After
realizing some of the biggest disadvantages of blog speed factor, it
would now be interesting to discuss effective ways to tremendously
reduce the number of elements that may be causing the blog to take a
longer time to load. Instead of sharing non-practical tips like CSS and HTML compressing or Image Compressing,
we will share tips for BlogSpot blogs that we apply to all our designed
templates and also to MBT blog. I am sure you will learn a lot with
this new exciting series. I will share some advanced technical tips that
will be both practical and easy to apply. Kindly do not hesitate to ask
for anything un-cleared. Do share some of your secret tips or any query
that you wish to clarify.
Peace and blessings buddies. :)