10 Things You Can Do to Speed Up Your Web Pages
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Optimize Your Images
Images comprise almost 60 percent of the average e-commerce page's total weight, and they represent a huge opportunity for optimization. Here are some ways how to ensure optimal performance for your images:
- Compress images. Smaller file sizes mean less payload travelling across the wire.
- Use progressive images instead of baseline images. In one study, progressive JPEGs improved median load time by 15 percent.
- Ensure that pages are structured to load feature images first. For many of the pages we studied, the feature image loaded last or almost last.
- Reformat images. An incorrectly formatted image can be several times larger than it needs to be. Rule of thumb: Photos should be in JPEG format, complex graphics should be in PNG-24 format and simple images with few colors should be in PNG-8 format.
Shorten the Roundtrip Time (RTT) for Your Page Resources
Roundtrip time (RTT) is the amount of time it takes for a host server to receive and process a request for a page's resources. RTT is subject to latency — i.e., the delay in getting content from point A to point B. The amount of latency depends largely on how far away the user is from the server. Here are some ways how to fix latency issues:
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