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30Website Optimization: Making It Smaller For Bigger Results
Filed in: advertising by Adam Webster on 05-30-09It’s common for individuals to not understand that every single time they go to a new web site they are actually performing a download. There are many people who say they don’t download but rest assured that is not true. The biggest problem with this is that because it is a download you have to be extra careful about the content you load your website up with, and make sure that you employ website optimization techniques.
In doing this, a person’s visit to a website will be made much more tolerable and may even guarantee return visits.
The first thing that you need to do is cut down on image size, especially images that are going to be seen frequently. The larger an image is, the more bandwidth it will take to load it and while you can do this by cutting down on the mages themselves, and it’s a fair bet that no one wants to look at a text filled page all the time. In this case what you need to do is reduce the size of your images. Unfortunately we are past the days when the.gif extension was enough because people possess graphics cards that can display more than 256 collars. Your best option in this case is to use what is known as.png format. This format compresses the image but keeps the same quality making it perfect for web content.
If you want to host any type of video for a website then you should, but you should also do your best to keep it off the main server. Putting it onto your main server will cause serious problems, like causing many people to have to wait for the video AND the website itself to load. If you can stream your video from alternative servers then you will find that it’s a lot easier to load the other content. The only problem with this is that you need to constantly make sure that the links to the streaming video are all functioning properly.
If you are experiencing heavy user load, then you could opt to store all of your content on various servers, and have it loaded from the server that is the least busy. In doing this you reduce the amount of people trying to download from a single server. This means that wait times for the website to load are reduced and more people will come back to visit your website.
Physical downloads such as games, music, or other software must be allocated to different servers. Some servers can be designated as ‘premium’ servers and people who pay a monthly fee can be given access to increased speeds and additional content.
If you really feel its necessary you can use some SEO or what is known as keyword optimization. This is where you use words that are popular in search engine within your page or in the meta tags. By doing this you will ensure that those who search for those keywords on a search engine will see your website in the list, and as more people click on it, it will make it’s way upward in the rankings.
Setting up your own webpage is simple but making it the best webpage it can be is difficult. To make sure you get it right employ the services of a professional or just do some searching on the web to get more information. If you do everything right you’ll not have too many problems and you will always be able to achieve the best web site optimization.
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Great information that I haven\’t seen addressed before. What is the best way to determine if your pages are loading quickly enough?
I have most of the videos on my site uploaded at YouTube and then embed the code. However, there are a few videos that I have hosted directly. I will change these to be all at YouTube.
My site provides foreclosure prevention solutions, primarily <a href=\"http://www.pandainvestments.com/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Loan Modification</b></a> information. However, I provide information on 8 different solutions and I\’m uploading video for each topic. I know that video is becoming more popular all the time and internet users would prefer to watch a short video instead of reading a bunch of text. These tips will make sure that my pages load quickly! Thank you for the tips!
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