Posts Tagged ‘ Speed optimisation ’

So you’ve made your website, and it looks great! You’ve started to drive customers and traffic to your website but you’re finding that the money that you’re spending on pay per click advertising, search engine optimisation and online marketing isn’t converting to leads or sales.

On close inspection of your web stats you may notice that there is a high bounce rate on your site or that people are only spending a few seconds on the landing pages of your site simply to exit on the same page. Other reasons could be usability and content on your site but we’ll assume they’re pretty spot on for the sakes of this article.

One cause for these high bounce rates is your websites load time. Almost everyone these days is lucky enough to have access to blazing fast internet connections where we can get anything on the web almost instantly, all at the same time. This is what web users are use to now and we need to make sure it is what we, as designers, developers and web managers, must deliver in order to satisfy these expectations. Continue reading “Reducing Your Joomla Website’s Load Time” »

There are some minor benefits in replacing the default Mootools library with a compressed version called from a Google server. The main advantages being that the file is highly compresses from the original 73kb to a tiny 18kb. Secondly the response time from the Google server is much higher than our own web hosting environment. Perhaps we should upgrade? Lastly, the final advantage is that this file may already be cached in the user’s browser from another website meaning that it won’t have to be downloaded at all, saving another 18kb. Fantastic!

One disadvantage is that your site will have to make one more DNS call t a different domain which will add to the load time of your website but this disadvantage is definitely outweighs by the gains of the compresses and hopefully cached copy from the Google server.

So how do I go about implementing this fancy new speed increase.

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