Is your website loading too slowly?

Website speed loading can be an issue for many business owners. As a rule, if a person has to wait more than 4 seconds for a website to load, the majority of them will leave and go to a different site.

There can be a number of reasons why your website is loading slowly and often the hardest thing is to find out why. There are a few good websites that allow you to check your speed loading page and will show you what elements took the longest to load. Google offers a page speed checker which can be useful in determining what’s going on.

Some of the most common causes of speed lading issues are listed below:

Slow server – You may rent a space on a shared server or cloud server or even have a dedicated one, but if the speed in which your server is taking to respond to the call for the website is slow then it doesn’t matter what you do to the site, it will not get resolved. Speak to your hosting company if you are experiencing this issue.

Error in code – if your website is taking a while to load or timing out then it may be that there is an error in your code. Run a report through one of the popular error checking websites to find out if there is an issue.

Size or images / too much code – if your pages are full of images that have not been reduced or you have pages of code that has not been minimised then you will probably experience slow loading speeds. Reduce the sizes of all images and make sure that they are saved for the web which will allow compression. Remove any unnecessary code and be sure to minimise scripts where possible.