No one likes waiting around for a site to load; so according to kissmetrics 40 per cent of people abandon a site that takes more than three seconds to load. Everyone prefers Accelerated mobile pages, to make their work easy going.
Unlike accelerated mobile pages slow pages are especially crippling for e-commerce sites. According to insights.wired almost 75 per cent of shoppers who are unhappy with a site’s performance are less likely to buy from the same site again, while a one second delay cutbacks customer satisfaction by 20 per cent.
Even Google factors site speed into their algorithm when ranking websites. So if your site loads too slowly you can expect your Google rankings to fall, and in turn represent less traffic to your site.
So what can you do to Accelerate Mobile Pages faster? Here are a few simple ways to keep your page load times low and your visitors happy.
1. Enable Compression
Use GZIP software application for file compression, to reduce the size of your CSS, HTML, and JavaScript files that are larger than 150 bytes.
2. Minify CSS, JavaScript, and HTML
By optimizing your code (including removing spaces, commas, and other unnecessary characters), you can intensely accelerate your mobile page speed. Google endorses using YUI Compressor for both CSS and JavaScript.
3. Reduce Redirects
Each time a page redirects to another page, your visitor faces extra time waiting for the HTTP request-response cycle to complete. Different additional redirects make your page load slower.
4. Improve server response time
Your server response time is encroached by the amount of traffic you receive, the resources each page uses, the software your server uses, and the hosting solution you use.
5. Use a content distribution network
Content distribution networks (CDNs), also called content delivery networks, are networks of servers that are used to allocate the load of delivering content. Essentially, copies of your site are stored at multiple, geographically different data centers so that users have faster and more reliable access to your site.
6. Optimize images
Make sure your images are no larger than they need to be, that they are in the right file format and finally that they are compressed for the web. Optimize images size for fast access on your site.