Formatting Tips To Speed Up Your Website - Part 3

One of the most important aspects of your website design is how fast your site loads. Here are a few tips to help speed up your website.

 

Remove Excess "Whitespace"

Whitespace is the spaces between your coding, removing the unneeded tabs and spaces can help a lot. Doing this will take a lot of extra bytes off the total size of your page and will speed up load time quite a bit. However, be careful using automatic squishers, as they can squish too much and make it difficult to edit later on.

 

Keep Your Code Clean

If you do use a wysiwyg editor, most times the will add useless code to your pages. For example, many will leave empty tags (ie. <font> </font>). Removing any of those excess tags will not only speed up your load time, but make you pages validate a lot cleaner.

 

Do Not Go Overboard On Images

Whilst images can greatly enhance the look of a site they can really slow it down if there are too many. Try to decide if all your images are really needed. There are quite a few nice effects can be done with css, so sometimes images are not required.