Check The Speed Of Your Website

In today’s digital era there is no room for websites that seem to take a lifetime to load. At ever increasing rates, website users are abandoning their searches on websites and therefore aren’t converting on sites of poor loading speeds compared to ones that meet their expectations. Therefore we have to ask ourselves this question, “What can we do to improve the speed of our website?”

Before You Begin Working On How To Speed Up Your Websites Load Times, Understand The Tools That It Was Built On:

Now depending on which type of content management system you use (WordPress, Wix, Weebly, etc.) you’ll have more control and freedoms of what you can do to improve the website speed. We recommend working with WordPress because it’ll offer you the most flexibility to improve performance. We’ll follow up this article with one that will lay out different strategies and methods you can use to improve the site speed performance.

The First Step To Increase The Load Time Of A Website:

The first step in discovering how we can improve our current website and landing pages is to run testing. A great tool to use is GT Metrix. This is a free tool that will give you insight into what is allowing your webpage to load quickly and what needs improvement. It will also provide averages so you know where you rank among similar webpages. Not only does this tool give you insight into performance but it also provides education and strategies to improve on the negative results.

Test The Speed Of A Webpage:

Below you’ll see results for a popular landing page of ours. This is only an executive summary but you can see how much data you get from a simplified report.