Ten Fixes For Faster Loading Webpages

As a webmaster, you have 10 seconds to present a page to a typical web visitor, if your home page or landing page takes longer than 10 seconds to load, then you probably want to reconsider the design and/or its weight, being images used, because not everyone accesses your site on a T1 line or cable connection.
Here are a few things you can do to make your site load faster:

1. Get rid of background multimedia.
2. Try to use the same images throughout site; that way you don’t have load new images for every page.
3. If a page must contain a large image, try breaking it down to smaller parts and load some of them on the page that goes to it by displaying them at 1 pixel at the bottom of page.
4. Use correct height and width for every image; this helps the browser map out the page before filling it with images.
5. If image quality isn’t an issue, save your images as GIF rather than JPEG.
6. Don’t make your table too big; don’t cramp the front page of NY Time into a table
7. Try to avoid table within table as much as possible.
8. Eliminate “white space” in your CSS file(s) and HTML files. A technique you can use with any text editor program is replace every two hard returns with a single return.
9. Most importantly, keep your front page or landing page as short and to the point as possible.