The patience needed for a site to load is very low. Google also takes the speed factor into their algorithm while they rank their websites. Hence, if your site is slow, you ranking will fall and traffic will be diminished.
Here are 5 steps to keep your visitors happy:
- Utilize a good catching plug-in: If you have motionless images, JavaScript or CSS that hardly change on your Website, your site can become neat with browser side catching. Catching is piling up part of your site, hence it loads at one time, and not each time a visitor visits. W3 Total Cache is a famous plug-in for WordPress used by sites like Smashing Magazine etc. When it is rightly configured, the speed is better. Also compress images. One great tool to do this is WP Smush.it.
- Abbreviate HTML, JavaScript and CSS: You need to get rid of all the white spaces from the codes wherever it is possible. Space and tabs are needed for humans to understand codes and make them clearer. However, machines understand this only when there are errors and when it is applicable.
- Decrease HTTP requests: Each time there is a visitor on your site, the resulting files have to be sent to the person’s browser. It comprises all the CSS files, images and JavaScript library services. Hence, if you have 10 images, 1 HTML file, 3 CSS files, 4 JavaScript, it becomes to 18 files which has to be loaded. So, if you diminish the amount of objects on your page, you can decrease all the requests of HTTP that are necessary to make a page, hence speeding up the loading time. One easy way is to make the design of your site simpler.
- Improve database tables: Doing so is like doing a servicing in your car. This can be done by using a plug-in.