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The reliability and speed of your web host have a big role in how fast (or slow) your website loads. While many webmasters choose the cheapest hosting to save money, this typically comes at the expense of their site's download speeds.
If your web host's servers are slow, causing your site to lag while loading, you should consider switching to a better (faster) host.
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To get faster download speeds, you should use a fast, lightweight theme for your site. This is because you want a website theme that will download quickly for your visitors when they visit your site. Poorly coded themes are "heavier" and take longer to load, particularly on mobile devices.
Because the majority of internet users access the Internet via mobile devices, you'll want to utilize a mobile-friendly, lightweight theme that is responsive and downloads rapidly. You should read reviews from other webmasters to discover how they rated the speed and responsiveness of potential website themes.
You should also measure the speed and responsiveness of different themes on your site to guarantee you choose the best (fastest) one.
Large online files, such as videos, can cause your site to load slowly.
As a result, rather than uploading videos to your web host directly, you should upload them onto YouTube. You may then simply embed the video links on your website.
Your visitors will be able to stream your videos directly from YouTube, which will speed up the load time of your website.
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While installing plugins might enhance your site's functionality, installing too many will slow down download rates. Because all of the plugins must be loaded before your site can fully load, visitors will have to wait.
If you feel that having too many plugins is slowing down the speed of your site, you should delete the ones you really don't need.
Oftentimes, you can replace multiple plugins with an all-in-one plugin that has all of the functions you require for your site.
Large web files can cause your site to load slowly. PDF documents and graphics-heavy files, for example, can take a long time to download, especially for visitors on mobile devices.
As a result, reducing huge files can help your site load faster.
If your images aren't optimized for quicker download speeds, they'll also slow down your website. Here are some simple ways to speed up the loading time of your site images:
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While user comments are beneficial for increasing audience engagement and enhancing SEO, a web page with too many comments may take more time to download.
As a result, you shouldn't display more than 50 comments per web page in order to maximize the speed of your pages. If your blog posts and articles have a lot of user comments, your visitors won't have to wait as long for web pages to load.