As a user, you will always want to open the
blog or website which is loading speed, that means that the blog is open
quickly. You do not have to wait 10 sec, 15 sec to read the information given
on it. Today, users have no patience
for websites with poor load speeds or performance. If your blog takes more time
to load, people will move to another blog by pressing the back button from your
blog. In addition to Visitors, Search
Engine also likes the blog whose loading time is low, so in today's post, I am
going to tell you how to increase the loading speed of Blog Spot blog. Importance
of Website Load Time Since 2010, Google has added page load speed to its
ranking algorithm. The faster your website loads, the more it is the user
experience. In 2010, Google said that only 1% of search engine results were
affected by the page speed ranking signal. Google has also clarified this, if
your content is the best, slow load time will not affect your ranking much.
Note: The intent of the search query is
still a very strong signal, so a slow page may still rank highly if it has
great, relevant content.
Not only in the search engine ranking but also
in user experience I have too much importance of Page Speed. One study has
found that 40% of web users will not go back to that website, if that site
loads, it takes longer than 4 seconds. More than 47% of internet users expect a
web page to be loaded within 2 seconds.
Keeping this in mind, you have to optimize your
blog in such a way as to reduce its load time.
So far we have come to know that our blog has
to reduce the loading speed, but first of all how to check the speed of our
site or how to find out what our site's loading speed is?
Online There are so many tools, such as GTmetrix,
PageSpeed Insights, Pingdom Tools, Web PageTest etc. With the help of
which you can check the speed of your blog and why the site load time is high,
it gives us full information about it.
PageSpeed Insights:
Google's Pagespeed Insights tool is the most
popular tool for speed checking of your blog. Most bloggers must know or use
this tool. This tool tells you how many percent of your blog's speed
is optimized for both desktop and mobile, by analyzing your blog's URL and
giving us some suggestions below to improve your page speed. There's
also a Chrome extension for Pagespeed Insights that you can install in your
browser and check the speed of the blog.
Here if your blog's Mobile and Desktop
Optimization is more than score 85 (out of 100), then your blog speed is well
optimized. You do not need to do anything more.
Pingdom is another popular website that
checks your page loading time and gives you overview about the overall
performance of your site. Here's the page load time of OyePandeyji blog
which is 3.54 second, this is not so special. It tells you which element takes
more time to load in your page, as well as the idea of external script which
takes maximum time to load.
How to Improve
Blog speed
With so many pugins in WordPress blog
that make our work easy, Blogger is Google's service on which we do not have
access and there are limited features. To improve the loading speed of your
BlogSpot blog, you have to follow all the tips below as well.
1: Use Fast Loading Template
The speed of your blog depends largely on you,
which theme / template you have used. On the Internet you will find many free
and paid templates but before using template you must definitely review whether
it is SEO friendly,
fast loading, mobile friendly or not. When you create a blog, select a
good template and use the same template for a long time, because repeated
changes to the template in the search engine ranking and it has many other
risks.
2: Remove Unwanted Widgets
Whenever you upload a template to your Blogger
blog by default, many widgets like search box, archive, visitors count, tags,
featured post etc will appear in the sidebar and footer. The more widgets you
use, the effect will also be on your loading speed. So you should use only
the widgets which are more important such as recent post, popular post, social
media follow button and category. I also use some of these select widgets in
the sidebar in my blog, besides, I do not use any widgets in the footer as well.
3: Minimum Post on Homepage
The speed of the Home page and content page of
Blog changes, you reduce the number of post to reduce the speed of the home
page. I would recommend to show you 5-6 post.
To change the number of posts being displayed
on the Blogger homepage, you can go to blogger setting and click on Post,
comment and sharing. assign post to
4: Compress Images
Images take a lot of bandwidth to be loaded,
due to this the loading speed of your blog is reduced. You can increase the
speed of the blog by up to 50% by simply optimizing images or compressing them.
For image compression you will find many tools online such as
CompressJPEG, ImageOptimizer, compressor.io but I use the PersonalTinyPNG
tool. Using these tools, you can compress images to 70-80%, but this will not
affect the quality of your images. How much is the size of the main image
(KB or MB) in the blog post? Ideally, the smaller the size of the image,
it is good for your blog speed, but within the blog post, you try to keep the image
size at maximum 50kb.
5: Avoid Too Many Ads
Too much ads can slow down your site.
Generally, in order to show advertisements within the post on the blogger, you
have to put an AdSense Ad unit in every post, this ad is made of
JavaScript, so using more ads will slow the loading speed of your blog.
6: Use Minimum CSS and JS
Use at least javascript and CSS on your blog,
therefore do not use unnecessary popup, subscriber widget, Facebook like
widget, Twitter timeline widget such as heavy JavaScript, CSS code.
7: Compress codes
By compressing the JavaScript, HTML, CSS code
you are using in your blog, you can improve the blog speed. An uncompressed
code may be nice to look at you, but it causes the webpage to load slowly for
users. You can compress your blog's code using the HTML Compressor tool.
Once the code is compressed, this site will show you how much size you have
saved. This site will notify you if any changes to your code are necessary. You
can use the Code Beautifier tool to restore your compress code again.
You must follow the tips given above to
increase your blog's loading speed. Along with improving your blog speed, you
will be able to increase the bounce rate, search traffic and earning too.
Hopefully after reading this post you will be
able to improve the blog speed. If you have any questions right now then you
can ask in the comment below. If you like, share this post with your
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