Comments on: Optimizing Your Website For Faster Load Times

By: Robert Irizarry

Robert Irizarry — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:02:48 +0000

Another thing to consider when optimizing load times is a site’s initial response time. For example, take two sites that load in the same time but one takes a few seconds before it starts to render content. The one that shows content right away is more likely to keep a reader around – especially that new reader. If they’re engaged right away, they won’t perceive that there’s still rendering going on in further down the page.

Among the things I’ve seen impact initial response time are too many redirects, certain plugins, JavaScript placed near the top of the page rather than down the page, etc.

Testing is vital. You want to address individual components but you also want to take a holistic view as well. Certain components or configurations may behave well on their own but interact poorly with others.

By: Kai Lo

Kai Lo — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:05:12 +0000

Faster load time is so important. I try visiting my own blog from other computers, and the loading time is around 5 seconds. I look at it from other viewers point of view and I believe that is slow.

By: Alexandru

Alexandru — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 23:57:33 +0000

True words, but most of the times loading time depends on your users ISP
For example, your first page loaded in arround 9-11 seconds ( i mean completly ) even for the second time.