Reducing the loading time of web pages could increase the traffic of a site since many people use dial-up internet to browse the net. An internet survey indicates that a visitor on average does not will to wait any longer than 10-15 seconds to load a web page. In that case, if a web page takes more than ten seconds to load, the visitor will obviously go away. So the loading time has a significant impact on your visitors. Before you carry on this article, you could go to SiteReportCard.com and evaluate the page loading time of your site.

There are several ways you could trim down the page loading time. Needless to say limiting graphics is the main concern here. You ought to try avoiding use of graphics as much as you can. Examine each page carefully and see if you could remove any picture from your web page and replace it with text. For instance, replacing your navigation’s images with text will be a good start. Keep those images only which are very essential, cut off the rest. If the loading time still doesn’t please you, you could do further modifications to the images. Cut off the use of animation pictures. Furthermore, it is good to optimize (crunch) all the graphics. Optimizing images will reduce the size and remove any unnecessary things from it. Adobe ImageReady is a great program to optimize images. Ulead.com, Netmechanic offer free image optimization as well. By specifying the height of the images could also reduce the page loading time. It is because when you specify the height and width of an image, the browser could map the layout while it is loading the images. As long as the image format goes, choose GIFs over JPGS as GIFs load faster than JPEGs. JPEGs are ideal for photos and high quality images. Use GIFs for anything else.

One more concern is HTML source code. It is important that you do not use superfluous codes. The loading time could be reduced by using a stylesheet. So that you can get rid of all those font tags, border tags, and margins tags. If you use a WYSIWYG program to code you site, you will notice that it adds useless codes. Replace the use of tables and nested tables with CSS and divs. It is best for you to stay away from frames. Frames could really increase the loading time, use iframes instead.

Avoid using sound files. Many people find it very unpleasant. Think this way, you are listening to music (many do) and browsing a website, all of a sudden something else start to play from that web page – how would you feel? Seemingly very much depressed. So it is better for you and the visitors to not using any auto play sound files. That way you will not depressed your visitors and the page will load faster as well.

It is vital that you consider all the options mentioned above to reduce the page loading time of your web page. In this manner you will not lose your visitors and visitor’s time in your site will be pleasure. Keep it mind that no matter what your site is about, faster sites attract more visitors. It particularly helps a lot if you are trying to make money out of the site.