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If your blog takes longer than 3 seconds to load, it's loading TOO SLOW and is costing you, visitors. Every second count! Google’s PageSpeed Insights may be a useful gizmo to use to seek out out how briskly or slow your site is loading.
If your blog is loading too slow, the ideas shared below will help make your Blogger blog load faster in no time.
1. Limit the number of Posts on the Front Home Page of Your Blog
The more posts you show on your front page, the longer your blog will fancy load. We recommend showing no quite 10 posts on the front page. However, if your posts are long and/or they need tons of images, then it might be knowing show even fewer posts. to vary the number of posts your home page shows, attend “Layout” > “Blog Posts” > “Edit.”
Under “Main Page Options,” switch the number of posts shown on the most page to variety but 10.
Then click the “Save” button. View your blog and it'll now only show the number of posts you've got set it to point out.
2. Display Expandable Post Summaries
If you'd like better to show tons of posts on your main page, using expandable post summaries/post excerpts may be a great alternative to the primary tip.
Expandable post summaries may be a feature that shows a brief paragraph for every post then allows your users to click on a “read more” link to look at the complete content of every post.
Using expandable post summaries on your home page dramatically decreases load time because only a little snippet of every post on the homepage has got to load.
3. Resize Images Before Uploading Them To Your Blog
Uploading images in their original size may be a surefire thanks to slow your blog down. The larger the pictures you upload, the longer your blog will fancy loading those images.
The goal is to size your images no wider than your post area width, so it’s important to understand that width.
If you're employing a Designer Blogs design, we state the post area width on each of our designs so you’ll know the precise width to use when resizing your images.
If you don’t have one among our designs and/or don’t know the width of your post area, then shoot us an email and we’ll be happy to require a glance at your site so you’ll know the precise width of your post area. Most post area widths are between 600-800px wide.
Photoshop is that the best tool for resizing images, but if you don’t have Photoshop, Pixlr may be a free service you'll use to try to to this. Here’s the way to easily resize a photograph using Pixlr:
1) skip to Pixlr and click on “Open Pixlr Editor” on the location.
2) Click “Open Image from Computer” and find the image you would like to use from your computer.
3) Your image will appear and can be ready for editing. At the rock bottom of the image, you’ll see the present image size.
My sample image is currently 4000px wide, which is much over large to be uploaded to a blog. So I’m getting to change it to the width of my post area, which is 800px wide. within the top navigation bar, click “Image” then “Image size…”
4) Change the image width to the width of your post area. the peak of the image will automatically suits keep the right proportions. Click “OK.”
5) Now you only got to save the resized image, so attend “File” then “Save.” Rename the file (if needed) then click “OK.” Find the folder on your computer where you’d wish to save the image and click on “Save.” You’re now able to upload your resized image to your blog.
4. Use a picture Host for Your Blog Images
Separate your blog and your blog images by using a picture host for your blog images. If you post an outsized amount of images on your blog within the double digits for every blog post, think about using an external image host.
An external image host will separately load your images on your blog. This takes a touch of the loading strain off your blog as your blog only has got to load your design and text and widgets.
5. Compress Your Images
If your blog images are still taking too long to load, consider optimizing them by compressing the file size. Compressing images removes a touch of the unnecessary bulk of the image file size.
This will only provide a little benefit if you employ only a couple of images per blog post. This trick is more suitable if you post images into the double digits for every blog post and wish the additional little bit of optimization.
Photoshop is often used for compressing images, but if you don’t have Photoshop, TinyPNG may be a free service that works great for automatically compressing your images. Here is the way to easily compress images using TinyPNG:
1) Open the TinyPNG site and click on on the “Drop your .png or .jpg files here” section on the location to upload your image.
2) Choose the image you would like from your computer and upload it.
3) TinyPNG should instantly start compressing your image.
4) When your image has finished being compressed, download your image from TinyPNG to your computer by choosing the “download” link.
A before and after comparison shows the compression ended up leading to a rather darker image when compressing up to 73% of the first image size. The image was compressed from 1mb to 275kb.
6. pack up Your Blog Widgets
Rid your blog of clutter. Keep the number of widgets you employ on your site to a bare minimum. Ask yourself, “do I actually NEED this widget?” If not, get obviate it.
You don’t want your users to get distracted from your amazing content by an excessively cluttered sidebar or footer. Less is more when it involves widgets. Keeping your widgets to a minimum will allow your content to shine and can help keep your site load time lightning fast!
Keep the essentials only. We recommend the subsequent must-have widgets: profile widget, email subscribe widget, blog archive widget, popular posts widget, and search widget.
7. Minimize Your Third-Party Gadgets
Similar to reducing your Blogger widgets, keep only the essential third-party gadgets on your blog.
Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, and other social media platforms are documented for having gadgets that take an extended time to load. Keep only the gadgets that are essential for your blog.
Consider which platforms are your main sources of readers and prioritize them accordingly. For the platforms that are smaller, link to them on your about page or on your sidebar rather than employing a third-party gadget.
8. Minimize the amount of HTML/JavaScript Gadgets
Adding your own HTML/JavaScript gadgets are often an excellent thanks to customizing your blog, but adding too many can slow your site down, so use them sparingly.
Your blog loads from the highest down, so if you are doing plan to use them, it's best to position them at rock bottom of the sidebar or blog in order that your users can still read your content while the javascript is loading.
If you're using them within the most code of the location, it’s best to position them at the top of the body tag (right before ).
Remember to use javascript sparingly and, when used, to position them at rock bottom.
9. Remove Large Blog Design Images
Do you have an outsized header image you uploaded to your blog? Or a good background image? If your blog is taking too long to load, these are two areas to ascertain to see if these images are slowing down your blog.
Blog header images should be but 1mb in size. Ideally, header images should be around 200-400kb.
Blog backgrounds should even be but 1mb in size. the simplest blog background images to use are seamless patterns because these images tend to be small and cargo quickly. Desktop sized backgrounds shouldn't be used for your blog background because these images are usually very large and take an extended time to load as most are over the 1mb recommended file size.
10. Limit the utilization of Custom Fonts
Custom fonts are beautiful and add personality to your blog design but if you discover that your blog takes too long to load, remove, or limit your custom fonts. Custom fonts are almost like images therein they take time to load and maybe large files.
Fancier calligraphy style fonts tend to possess larger file sizes as compared to serif or sans-serif fonts you'd find during a book or newspaper.
Custom fonts are best used sparingly like for your blog header and blog post titles. If possible, use 1 or 2 custom fonts only and alter the dimensions or make the fonts bold or italic in your HTML to use a little number of fonts but still add variety in your fonts on your blog.
The maximum amount of custom fonts you ought to wear your blog should be a maximum of 3-4 fonts. any longer and you're only slowing down your blog.
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