How to increase page speed

[Nagagopal]

My website took long time to load, How to reduce the page loading time.

Thanks in Advnace

[RedBar]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld Nagagopal

We need a lot more information before any suggestions can be made.

How is it hosted, are there lots of uncompressed images/videos, is it on WordPress, is it only one page or a multi-page site?

Give us some generic clues and we'll see if we can work from there however do note that in general low-cost shared hosting can be slow compared to powerful dedicated hosting.

Not all hosting plans are equal!

[buckworks]

Check your page with the PageSpeed tool and, one by one, work through the fixes that it recommends.

[developers.google.com...]

For many sites the fastest way to improve loading speed is to replace images that are bloated or oversized with edited versions that are well compressed and properly sized.

Work on your home page first, then other busy pages. Pay special attention to your templates, where fixing a detail might improve many pages.

While you're at it, check how well your pages validate.

[aaq8700]

Do you have lots of pictures on your website? If so, compress all and upload them again. Too much KB from photos impacts page load speed. There are free online tools that can optimize your images without sacrificing quality.

[Yuga_Patil]

You can check your website speed on [developers.google.com...] There are various issues such as CSS, JS, image optimization, browser caching. This tool will help you to find which issue do your website is facing. With the help of developer you can fix this issues. Thus your website speed will be much faster & it will help in ranking.

[riccarbi]

Total page loading time is often not the most important metric. If you have a look at Google's Core Vitals you'll notice that perceived speed is much more important.
Therefore, you should focus on your server response time, reducing render-blocking resources (custom fonts, CSS, and js loading usually have a great impact on it), removing unnecessary plugins and external services, enabling image lazy loading, compressing images, enabling page caching, and the like.

[JorgeV]

Hello,

My website took long time to load, How to reduce the page loading time.

Can you be more precise? What do you call "long time" ? Does it take long before starting to show?

You can use the Google Chrome's dev tool, to inspect the network activity, to identity what is taking long time.

Are you running your site on a dedicated server? A shared host? Do your pages include lot of third parts scripts? etc...

[saladtosser]

For me switching to 100% AMP site, HTTP/2, replace images with .webp versions (with fallback) and use srcset (I create 20 versions of every image I use). Minimise everything and remove all junk code and extra markup divs to reduce the DOM. Probably easier for me being a hand coder than someone using Wordpress with all the junk they insert automatically. In terms of helping rankings though, hasn't made a bit of difference for me so don't get 2 hung up thinking speed holds much weight.

[tangor]

@saladtosser ... Welcome to Webmasterworld!

Valid point:

In terms of helping rankings though, hasn't made a bit of difference for me so don't get 2 hung up thinking speed holds much weight.