Friday, September 9, 2011

SEO - Improve Your Site Speed

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Placing your style sheets (CSS) near the top and JavaScript near the bottom of the coding for each of your web pages can improve the perceived speed of your website for human visitors.

When someone directs a web browser to a web page, the browser starts from the top of the code and works its way down. The style sheets are one of the more important pieces for human viewers, because they determine how the site will look. After that, your website's actual content will load pretty quickly. It's as if the style sheets set out a framework, and then the content loads into that framework.

The JavaScript - or <script> tags - provide things like interactive features or actions that your viewer won't notice unless they perform an action on a web page. So allowing the JavaScript to load last means your visitors see everything on the page that's visual, even while the JavaScript is still loading. So your visitors see your page as loading faster than it really does.

Why does this matter? Because people are impatient. If a web page seems very slow, they're more likely to leave.

Want to know if your website has CSS or JavaScript in the wrong place? The AboutUs Site Report will warn you of any pages that need attention.
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Many websites have some code whose purpose is to pull something from a service that's out of their control. For example, a website may use:

A "share" button from a service such as AddThis
An e-commerce shopping cart provided by another company
A widget that displays the company's recent tweets on Twitter

The code for Google Analytics can also slow your site down a bit, though the insights you'll gain from using analytics usually outweigh this slight disadvantage. I recommend that you take advantage of other speed improvements, and keep the analytics.

It's wise to check the speed of any external features on your site. If you aren't using a feature, or if it is of minimal value to your business and website, you should remove it.

Want to know if your website's pages are using a lot of JavaScript? The Site Report will warn you of any pages that reference more than 3 external JavaScript files.

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