When was the last time you ran a check on how fast your work at home business website loads? Perhaps one month ago? 3 months ago, or the day you had your website created? Don’t you think you owe it to your readers and your [tag-tec]subscribers[/tag-tec] whom you have openly said you’re providing good quality content while quietly saying to yourself how you wish you had more repeat visitors coming to your blog?
You might have one of the greatest looking websites in your niche but very few people are going to see it if it takes such a long time to load
I do not like to visit slow loading websites because the waiting time kills me and time is valuable. But if I have such thoughts, don’t you think my visitors coming to my site think the same way too.
The speed of your website or work from home business blog is the responsibility of the webmaster and you just have to set aside some of that valuable time to make this a periodic tune up. If you are just about to design your new work at home business website, do remember to check out how long it will take to load.
1. Minimize the use of images – The best way to get a fast loading web site is to minimize the use of images. It may be impossible to totally have a site without images and that’s not what I am recommending too. Perhaps set yourself 20% of your website having images. Remember all the popular sites like Google do not have many images. That’s because they place more importance to its load time as well as readers’ on-site experience.
2. Minimize the bytes of your html write-up by deleting all unnecessary characters, and blank spaces for fast loading pages.
3. Minimize the bytes of your website images with an Image Optimizer. This tool allows you to easily optimize your GIFs, animated gifs, JPGs, and PNGs, so they load as fast as possible on your website. I’ve also found out that you can easily convert from one image type to another up to an upload size limit of 300kB. Just to give you an idea what this means, I recently converted the image I had used on Work At Home Internet Business-7 In-Dept Link Building Tips . The picture size reduced from 105.61 KB to 13.09 KB, an unbelievable 87% reduction in bytes.
4. Use a HTML Validator to check out all errors found as such errors will increase your site loading time.
5. Reduce the number of animated GIFs as they take a very long time to load your pages. If it’s really necessary, choose smaller animated gifs.
6. Keep Your Code Clean – If you do use a WYSIWYG editor, most of the time you will receive redundant code added to your pages for example, these empty tags <font> </font>. Removing these excess tags will speed up your load time.
7. Keep your icons simple and small - Try not to use big images on your website. Instead use simple and small icons that add just a little color to attract your visitor’s attention.
8. Remove Anything You Don’t Need – Take a closer look at some of the things that you have put on your work at home business site and you will be amazed at the number of things you could remove, if not needed. This may be in the form of images, embedded sound files, widgets or animated GIFs.
9. Avoid Long Pages – Besides taking a longer time to load, long pages are not well received by your visitors. It’s a better idea to split these long pages into shorter pages which improves the page load up time.
10. Check your load time periodically – Make it a practice to check your website load time. It should be in your mental checklist to ensure a fast and error free site. Here is a website analyzer that you can use to quickly check it for your website.
Discover How You Too Can Easily Turn Your Blog Into A Super Fast Loading Blog
If you have a blog which is hosted in the 
same domain name as your website, you can be sure that using these 10 tips will also improve the load up time for your blog too. However do you want your blog to load even faster to cope with the demands of so many plugins, and countless of creations you’ve made on it? Well I’ve asked my good friend Yan, of ThouShallBlog, who has been making a name for himself in the blogging fraternity in just 3 months what it takes to achieve this. He has the answer for us in “5 Possible Ways To Speed Up Your Blog”. I really hope you read it as I’ve found very interesting and useful ways here to get my blog up to speed.
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August 9, 2008 at 10:34 am
They say “First Impression Counts” and it’s certainly true. First-time visitors will tend to click away if the site is loading too slow due to lots of unnecessary widgets or plugins.
We need to take a little break from our daily blogging once in a while to do some spring cleaning by removing the unnecessary and periodically check on our site’s loading time.
I think the title could be made into 15 simple tips instead. Thanks for the shout, Peter. I didn’t know that I have created such a buzz.
Yan
August 9, 2008 at 11:34 am
Hi Yan,
Thanks for dropping by. Yes I guess I could have put “15 tips” but then again “10″ and “7″ are what I called magic numbers in which people have grown used to including me. Thanks again for sharing your post and having 15 tips to speed up our blogs I’m sure many will find this information helpful.
Peter
Work At Home Ideas
August 9, 2008 at 7:52 pm
There are so many blogs, and many readers won’t have much time to wait around for a blog that keep loading and loading.
Great tips, Peter, as always.
BTW: I love that picture, where is it? Hong Kong?
Lily
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August 9, 2008 at 8:05 pm
I’m glad you put a face beyond a name. It’s more personal in such an impersonal world.
By the way, it would be better if you add a line break after the author’s name.
Yan
August 9, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Hi Lily,
Hey thanks for dropping by. I had you in mind when I wrote this post since you asked me before how to make your blog load faster. Well hope you’ve find your answer here. BTW I’m not sure if it’s HK as no information provided in ‘image details’.
Peter
Work At Home Ideas
August 10, 2008 at 5:23 am
As they say, less is more and when you add fast loading to the equation, it is a winner.
Thanks Peter for the tips.
August 10, 2008 at 6:18 am
I should use Ur tips to optimized my blog. I’m dial up user and I know how difficult to load some blog that contain so many image/script on it.
I already use “Save image as” option at photoshop and always try to make my pict less than 15 kb. But I think my site still heavy. I think I should remove some unessecary affiliate banner. wehehehhe
Thx for the tips
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August 10, 2008 at 8:12 am
Hi Shireishou,
Thanks for the visit. It’s your first so welcome.I just visited your blog. I know sometimes it’s a difficult decision to remove some of your favorite images. Perhaps before deciding that, you can optimize these images and save lots of bytes first. I’ve done quite a few on my blog and each of them saved more than 80% bytes. So it’s worth the effort. Do visit us again and tell us if your image optimization help you.
Peter
Work At Home Ideas
August 10, 2008 at 8:16 am
Jefflin,
Thanks for your very first visit here and welcome! You’re right, having a site or blog that loads super fast is so important. But it’s a challenge for us too as we are used to putting more and taking out less right?. Hopefully the image optimizer and some other plugins mentioned in my post will really do the trick. Do visit us again and tell us if you’ve used any of the tips.
Peter
Work At Home Business Ideas
August 10, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Great information! Thanks for writing this. It is an honor to participate in the discussion.
August 13, 2008 at 12:43 am
I am doing my work at home.But the problem is for loading the site it is taking lot of time.your tips are so helpful to me to load the website quickly and also these steps help me to do the things with in the time.
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maria
http://www.SelectWealthSystem.com/?t=wc
August 13, 2008 at 10:17 am
Hi Maria,
Thanks for dropping by and I welcome you here in your first visit. I’m glad you found these tips useful. In fact there are 15 tips together if you include those for blog. So do come back and visit us again and share with us your experience and expertise here.
Peter Lee
Work At Home Ideas
August 15, 2008 at 1:13 am
Hi Peter
I dont know how you keep coming up with this stuff!
It seems every time I come over to look at your blog – there is a post about just what I needed to know!
This is very usful information for all webmasters.
We all know we need to make sure our sites load fast, but how often do you just forget because you are so busy with your online business objectives?
I never even bother with sites that are not on the screen in 2 seconds flat!
Thanks for the reminder to check out my site!
and great content – as usual!
Take care – Kym
August 15, 2008 at 1:52 am
Hi Kym,
It’s so good to hear from you again. I’m glad you liked my post and you’ve found the tips useful. Yes very often we get so occupied by other stuff that we forget the simplest tasks and the most critical ones too if you ask me. But you can do this in stages focusing on those easy ones first so you won’t take too much time doing so.
Have a great weekend ahead,
Peter Lee
Work At Home Ideas.
August 24, 2008 at 2:49 am
Hey Peter,
Great article and very nice to see many people benefiting from your tips.
Just like to share one tip of mine which I found to be rather useful.
If you’re using wordpress, you can try using the tag to limit the size of your blogpost to perhaps the first 300 words.
When used correctly, it will reduce the amount of data the visitor has to load on his/her comp, resulting in faster loading times.
Plus, if you insert the tag at the appropriate cliffhangers, readers will be curious and want to click on the “read more” link to read further.
In my test, it kinda increases the readership. Better for the visitor to look through the starting paragraphs of blog posts than to scroll through miles of never ending text.
Just my 2 cents.
Keep up with the great articles Peter.
Kai Wei
OnlineMLMSystem.com
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August 24, 2008 at 10:33 am
Hi Kai Wei,
Thanks for dropping by. I believe it’s your first visit so a warm welcome to you. Thanks for your suggestion. I did think of that to show just a couple of paragraphs with a “read more here”. But I am following a link building strategy in which I am optimizing my blog home page, so it looks like I cannot do any effective keyword optimization if I choose this route. If you have any solution, would be glad to hear from you.
Peter Lee
Work At Home Ideas
September 27, 2008 at 8:20 am
I’ve never really thought about my blog’s load time. However, from my knowledge of building static websites I know that too much images and a host of other things makes a webpage to load too slow.
Thanks anyway for the ideas revealed here. I’ll definitely check out those resources to optimize my blog.
September 27, 2008 at 9:27 am
Hi Chadrack,
Yes, your blog’s loading time is so important. I say this because I don’t have the time and patience to wait for a slow site to load up, so I presume others think alike too. Well hope you find some of these tips useful to you. Hope to see you here again and let’s keep in touch. BTW I just visited your blog and left a comment.
Peter
December 17, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Loading time is very important its part of the user friendly guide, most people go so deep into designing a web page, they almost forget about simple loading time
February 17, 2009 at 12:50 pm
wonderfull.i want to try this tips.and i hope i can make my blog fast as i want.thank you peter
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March 17, 2009 at 7:58 am
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May 10, 2009 at 8:27 am
Hey thanks, My blog has been loading kinda slow, I will try this tips and see if that makes a difference, I'll let you know.
June 9, 2009 at 7:28 am
These tips seem vey useful for which i have been waiting for long time, Its great sharing, peter. I will use them for fast loading of wesite.
June 25, 2009 at 8:28 pm
This will help a lot especially with my blog.. So that the people visiting my blog will not be bored on waiting the loading.. thank you..
June 26, 2009 at 1:54 am
i have just tried to start my own blog, but i am on a 2Mbps connection, so i am confused how much time is it taking to load up on slow connections, help me out please?
June 26, 2009 at 5:00 am
Perhaps before deciding that, you can optimize these images and save lots of bytes first. I've done quite a few on my blog and each of them saved more than 80% bytes
July 8, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Nice piece. I think it is really a big turn-off that most webmasters don't seem to notice filling their sites with unnecessary stuffs. Hope some of them get to see this though.
July 8, 2009 at 9:24 pm
sometimes the slow internet but aside from that, there are sites that requires fast internet to open their sites and everybody hates that. why not be simple? it's still the same right?
August 2, 2009 at 11:58 am
Many of these tips, I already knew, but I also found many new things. Thank you for useful information.
September 4, 2009 at 3:25 am
Really if you want to run web based business your web should be a fast loading one. And I think the tips you gave will definitely speed up the loading time and I have learnd a lot from here
thanks…
September 18, 2009 at 12:10 pm
Nice post, fast loading website or blog is better for search engine.
October 9, 2009 at 7:41 am
Great tips, I am always scared about the loading of my website but these tips so nice as they can help me to reduce the time to load it!
November 24, 2009 at 5:45 am
Great tips man!
James
November 29, 2009 at 8:36 am
This is what I needed for my wordpress blog. I own a video wordpress blog, the loading time is very slow. I should try your tips and see what happen next.
January 25, 2010 at 2:44 pm
you can do this in stages focusing on those easy ones first so you won't take too much time doing so.
February 7, 2010 at 4:56 am
This was so helpful for me . I found exactly what I was looking for even more… I'm definitely going to bookmark your site …
March 13, 2010 at 1:31 am
nice post . i like the stuff youre writing about. so i get another point of view..
March 14, 2010 at 7:00 am
These are some great tips bro, having a page that loads fast should be everyone's number one goal.
March 14, 2010 at 8:32 am
@MLM Training: Thanks. It is important since Google now places importance on fast uploading of your website .
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April 23, 2010 at 3:32 am
I'm operating two businesses out of my home and I want to build a blog for exposure what free blog sites are out there and what's the best one??
April 23, 2010 at 3:33 am
People tell me that social networking for my business is the way to go and it's my next goal. Thanks.
April 24, 2010 at 4:12 pm
This is even more important than ever now since Google has announced load speed will affect ranking.
April 27, 2010 at 6:36 pm
That was really great tips Peter leeh. I will be here always to read your interesting post..
Thank you
June 16, 2010 at 5:00 am
Hi nice post share it again by again thanks for great sharing.
June 18, 2010 at 11:34 am
Thanks for these suggestions Peter. I have the Quick Cache Plugin installed on my blog to help my blog loading faster. This is static pages that loads when my site is viewed to load faster. I think it's quite important these days to have a faster page seeing to it that Google now officially uses this to rank your website.!
July 28, 2010 at 2:28 pm
Impression are good to becaused google gives points to it.
July 30, 2010 at 9:16 am
Simple tips but the impact is great. Once perfected, you will thank Peter, the author no end.
July 31, 2010 at 12:14 pm
@Rose Growing Advice: Thanks for the kind words.
September 25, 2010 at 3:09 pm
Thanks for the tips Peter .. Nice blog..
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October 7, 2010 at 3:59 am
@Begginers Guitar: No problemo…thanks for dropping by.
October 7, 2010 at 4:01 am
@Nilesh:Great blog you got there. Thanks for visiting.
October 10, 2010 at 1:27 am
You will see me here all the time Peter..
October 15, 2010 at 2:34 pm
Some good ideas – especially if Google does start taking page loading times into account when calculating the SERPS.
October 16, 2010 at 5:12 am
@Hampers: Actually Google has already included this an one of its algorithm….
October 26, 2010 at 6:28 am
I admire what you have done here. I like the part where you say you are doing this to give back but I would assume by all the comments that this is working for you as well.
October 26, 2010 at 7:09 am
@Panama Night Life: Thanks for dropping by and your comment.
February 10, 2011 at 11:03 pm
If you know a bit about web development then other things can be useful too like caching pages so that they dont load everytime for every user. Use of web 2.0, such a shame that there isn't any content management systems that take full advantage of ajax. Also using future technologies such as using sphinx for example to improve the speed that data is retrieved from databases.
March 11, 2011 at 7:08 am
I was looking for crucial information on this subject. The information was important as I am about to launch my own portal. Thanks for providing a missing link in my business.
May 9, 2011 at 6:33 am
Your every post is really helpful for me because i got new information from every article.
June 15, 2011 at 12:43 pm
Your article on the topic
10 Simple Tips to Fast Loading Website and Home Business Blog.your post have the information that is helpful and very informative.Your post includes great tips and you managed to keep it simple and understandable. I would like you to keep up the good work.
Thumbs up and Thanks.
July 29, 2011 at 7:47 am
really great information and as we all know Loading time is very important its part of the user friendly guide…………..
December 11, 2011 at 11:48 am
Thanks for the useful tips for SEO. Sometimes it is disheartening to see the position in SERPs changes drastically and shows no signs of consistency.