How To Lose a Lot of Readers

[freedombreather]

Now that Google takes into account how fast your blog loads, now is the time to make sure that yours is up to par (also, most readers will move on to the next site if yours takes too long to load). Take these simple steps and watch your blog grow:

#1 When you use image editing software, always use the "save for the web" feature. Or, you can use an online image optimizer.

#2 If you go to cleancss.com it will essentially clean up your web code and get rid of all the uneccessary fluff that makes pages load longer.

#3 When giving out your link, make sure that your include a slash at the end of your web address. This reduces the amount of time it takes the server to figure out what kind of file yours is.

#4 Get rid of those useless elements on your page that slow your site down. A good site that evaluates how fast your website is: www.tools.pingdom.com

#5 I personally have not tried this one, but I hear it is worth it. Amazon CloudFront will make your site appear to load faster to users.

Good Luck and let me know if I can help. -Christine from NextLevelBlogs

[ajwalsh]

These are all really good tips, and I hadn't heard of some of these resources, either.

I had a website not too long ago that was using very large images and it loaded very slow. It took me a while to realize that I saved the images in a terrible format in Illustrator...

Does that slash tip really make a difference?

[dlackner]

Originally Posted by freedombreather

Now that Google takes into account how fast your blog loads, now is the time to make sure that yours is up to par (also, most readers will move on to the next site if yours takes too long to load). Take these simple steps and watch your blog grow:

While those tips are fine, all you need to use is the WP Super Cache plugin to keep your blog fast.

Sorry, I can't post links yet.

[titan7585]

These are some great tips. Thanks for the heads up about cleancss.com .
And I agree with dlackner that WordPress users should use a caching plugin.

[Audality]

ive been looking at a couple of these things for load optimization (mines isn't too bad but being faster never hurt), but this list has a couple of new things im just checking out like cleancss.

Also shouldn't this thread be called " Hot to not lose a lot of readers"? its seem more like tactics for keeping them rather than losing them :P