According to CrazyEgg<\/a>, even a one-second delay in page load time yields 11% fewer page views, a dramatic 16% drop in customer satisfaction, and 7% conversion loss. Is that what you were looking for? I didn’t think so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s why improving your mobile site performance is critical<\/strong>. Your eCommerce site should be tuned like a race car, ready to blaze down the superspeedway that is the world wide web. If it\u2019s as slow as a rusty ramshackle vehicle, you’ll soon find yourself in the middle of nowhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The benefits of a snappy, performance-enhanced site are both numerous and notable:<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, now that you’re ready to optimize your site, where do you start? Below are 19 proven techniques to increase your site speed. <\/p>\n\n\n<\/a> If you feel like your hosting provider does not meet your expectations, it may be the right time to switch to another one. If you use X-Cart to sell your products and services online, you may need to move your store to our PCI compliant eCommerce hosting<\/a> for maximum performance. It is tuned to host this shopping cart and we can guarantee better speed than any other hosting provider can offer. <\/p>\n\n\n If you have no idea what X-Cart is and how it can help you increase your website performance, just schedule a free demo with one of our solution advisors and ask them to show you how speedy your store can be.<\/p>\n\n\n Along with the increased performance, you\u2019ll get:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Moreso, we have an extensive network of servers around the globe that allows for faster content distribution and, thus, makes your online store as speedy as never.<\/p>\n\n\n The World Wide Web is a truly exciting tool that many of us rely on every single day. It’s no surprise when you consider that, it puts us in touch with people and events across the globe and brings all of the world’s information to our fingertips in an instant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This powerful experience is possible with the help of web browsers on any internet-connected device in the world. Why not make this process even more seamless for your users?<\/p>\n\n\n\n The thing is that all modern web browsers today can keep a copy of your store\u2019s files. These files are stored on your user\u2019s device the first time he or she lands on your website. If the user comes back again (the next day or even in a week) it will load much faster because some of the content is already downloaded and stored in the browser\u2019s memory. This trick is called “browser caching.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let’s say you regularly travel to Waianapanapa Black Sand Beach on the island of Maui, in Hawaii, and take a super heavy suitcase, full of flip-flops, pareos, and bathing suits. What if you could leave all of these things there? You\u2019d travel without baggage next time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Web browser caching is like a baggage room where you store your files. It can greatly help you improve your mobile website performance by saving files, just in case your user comes back and needs them again. Performance research by YUI Team shows that it can instantly reduce the website loading time from 2.4 (with an empty browser cache) to 0.9 seconds (with a full browser cache). The 62.5% speed boost is impressive!<\/p>\n\n\n\n More info: Apply caching techniques in X-Cart to achieve high performance<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n Image compression can be extremely valuable for increasing your mobile website speed as well. It’s baffling that there are still webmasters who do not pay attention to the file sizes of their images. PNGs, GIFs, and JPGs should all be compressed for the web by at least 30-40%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here are a few tips: Make sure that the image is the exact size that it needs to be for the space provided. Don\u2019t let the web browser scale down the image, resize it in an image editor like Photoshop. If you need a free image editor that can perform most functions, take a look at the GNU Image Manipulation Program, or GIMP for short.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Be very wary about file size, and experiment with different formats to see which will give you the best balance between size and quality. Try out the numerous free image optimizers on the web.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/a> HTTP requests are one of the biggest killers of site speed. A request happens when a browser asks for HTML or CSS files from a server. Thus, the more on-page components, such as images, scripts, Flash, or stylesheets, you have on your website page, the more requests will be made, and the longer the load time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The quickest way to increase your mobile site speed is to simplify your design. Here’s how:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some more info: CSS Sprites: What They Are, Why They\u2019re Cool, and How To Use Them<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<\/a> A large volume of full-sized unoptimized images is one of the most common culprits for slow websites. Big images (the ones that are larger than 1-2 MB) consume a large bandwidth while loading, use a lot of server resources, and get on your customers’ nerves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n When optimizing your images for maximum performance, you need to focus on three things: size, format, and src attribute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here are a couple of useful tips:<\/p>\n\n\n\n We need spaces and formatting to read an article. In styling sheets, these elements are of no use at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For example, the code that ships with X-Cart is human-readable for your ease of customization. This is quite handy when designing a site<\/a>. However, the code itself may contain extra text that is not always useful to the browser. So, when the design phase is over, you should reduce that code to a smaller size by sucking out the \u201cair.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Both your styling sheets (CSS files) and the code used to display the page (HTML and JavaScript files) will benefit dramatically from minification and increase your store\u2019s load speeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are several online tools (recommended by Google!) that you can also use to minify files. See below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Just be sure to keep a human-readable backup of the file so that you can make changes in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/a> Mobile site speed is not only about keeping your code clean and well-organized. It also depends on a big, fat tech tool, known as a web server. This means that the longer your server has to wait before receiving data from your customers’ browsers, the slower your website. The reasons can be different \u2014 from slow database queries to memory starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Your target should be reducing your server response time under 200ms. Google experts<\/a> recommend analyzing the existing performance and then, with data at hand, fixing top performance bottlenecks. Here are a few more things you can try to enhance your server response time:<\/p>\n\n\n\n We strongly encourage webmasters to minimize the number or ideally eliminate redirects entirely.<\/p> \n
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