Tips For Small Business Owners: How To Boost Your Website Speed [Infographic]

How long does it take for your website to load? 5, 10, 20 seconds?

Does it really matter?- In the era of high-speed data, website’s speed is vital to your visitor’s experience, in which ultimately, affect the retention and conversion rates of your website. No one likes to sit around waiting for a website to load. In fact, the very reason people go onto the Internet is to get an instant information or solutions. Web surfers are by nature impatient.

According to a recent study conducted by NetForecast, 4 seconds is the maximum threshold that people can wait before they get frustrated and hit the ‘Back’ button to see different search results. However, a fast-loading site is much more than just about enjoyment of surfing the website.

The Need For Speed

If you are familiar with how Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) works, then you are probably already well aware that Google takes page-loading speed into serious consideration in determining the ranking of your website. For small business owners, this could be very crucial as SEO is considered one of the most effective and affordable way to increase your website traffic, and thus (more likely) to increase sales.

So now the question is, How can we boost our website speed? Do I need to be an IT wizard to do this? – Well, it turns out, the solutions are pretty simple. With a little bit of web design knowledge, you can dramatically improve your website speed. Check out below an interesting infographic made by our friends over at Papaki about website speed and super-easy tips on how to make your website lightning fast!

Shortcut – Let us do it for you!
If you don’t have time to read all these tips and think that this infographic doesn’t suit your needs, why not let us optimise your website for you! One of the most important factors to having a fast website is having a good web hosting provider. Free Virtual Servers provides cheap web hosting packages that guarantee 99.99% uptime with ultra-fast servers! In addition, if you’re looking to further optimise your website, our sister company, 123 Ranking, have over 13 years of experience in SEO and offer the most competitive SEO package in the industry.
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