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Page Load Times are more important than EVER!
Today’s website users expect a page load times or webpages to load extremely fast, and those sites that don’t – will likely experience negative consequences as a result. Studies has found a one-second delay in page load times yields 11% fewer page views, a 16% decrease in customer satisfaction and an 7% loss in conversions. Google has also indicated that site load time is one of the items used by its algorithm to rank pages.
“Friends don’t let friends host on GoDaddy.” Our host, Phil Reinhardt, shares his office mantra with us on this episode of Digital Marketing Tech Talk. Focus today on the immediate four questions Phil would ask you concerning your frustratingly slow web loading speed. Get his top answers from frequently asked questions accumulated in the various groups he participates in each week. Let’s get your site up and running faster!
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Highlights
- The top four things to focus on
- Who is your host?
- You get what you pay for
- “Friends don’t let friends host on GoDaddy!” -Phil Reinhardt
- Lower budget: Bluehost
- You’re not going to get nickeled and dimed as much as GoDaddy
- Next suggestion: SiteGround
- “It’s a little more expensive, but worth every penny!” -Phil Reinhardt
- They maintain their new servers and have phenomenal support
- His highest suggestion: A2 Hosting
- You can sign for different tiers of speed
- An example of the differences he’s seen by switching a site to A2
- How many plugins do you have on your site?
- The more plugins, the more loading your site may have, especially if you don’t update them!
- Old codes are sometimes incompatible with new ones
- The more plugins, the more loading your site may have, especially if you don’t update them!
- The issue with overloading a photo with higher pixels that need to resize
- Phil’s common practice of personally resizing images on his client’s speed
- The overall file size
- To upload a megabyte or higher on a computer, it will take a while
- Reduce that file size before uploading
- To upload a megabyte or higher on a computer, it will take a while
- “When was the last time you’ve had your database cleaned up or optimized?” -Phil Reinhardt
- Do you use the same pages of code?
- Code optimization
- Have a conversation about optimizing your website with Phil!
- Reach out Phil Today!
