5 keys to speed up your blog

One of the important things that brings more traffic to a certain blog is its loading time , a low blog that takes too much time to load usualy ends to be left by people and never come back to it again . Another important thing is that you won't be recieving a good traffic from Google and search engines because they won't like your blog and you'll be left on your own with less visitors .

So whenever you want to start a blog or change your blog's template , first thing you should do is to think of these 5 keys I'll be showing you in order to speed up your blog and make it loads as fast as possible , and also search engines will love your blog :

CSS Codes   

 Most bloggers forget about Css codes  , and they keep adding codes and codes forgetting about their blog speed which for sure affects their blog performance . whenever you add some Css code to your template , your blog slows by seconds  so it's better to reduce the number of these codes as much as possible and keep just the necessary ones . You can also compress these codes using some websites such as Css Drive .

Images        

Images are good for your posts and helps you and helps your readers , but most of bloggers don't pay attention to the images size they're using as they're supposed to do . Large images on your blog is the number one reason why it loads slowly . So when you're uploading an image to your blog , ALWAYS resize it first to the smallest possible without it losing its quality using image editing programmes or online services such as
imageoptimizer .

Edit the number of posts per page 

The number of post on the main page also affects your blog load time . Templates differ in how many posts are being shown in your blog homepage  , and some of them automotically show up to 13 posts , So try reducing this number in your blog settings , 5 to 7 posts is good . When you change your blog theme , make sure to edit this number again .

JavaScripts 

Thirdparty javascripts are the scripts who your template call when the your blog is being loaded , which are outside your blog on external hosts , and if these hosts are slow the server may take some time .
So if you have some thirdparty javascripts on your blog make sure you put them at th bottom of your blog , thus your blog will load faster .

Don't Use backgroung images 

Having images as background slows down load time because often the times the background will load first , or the text can't be read until the background loads first . If you want a good background on your blog , you can use a plain coloured background .


Keep in mind 

Your blog load time is an important thing you should take care of if you want to bring traffic to your blog and make relations with your readers , and make search engines like your blog . So check if you have some of those 5 things above undone , and do it as soon as possible if you want your blog to load fast .
You can always use this free tool from google PageSpeed Insights which analyzes the content of your web page and let you test test the speed of your blog , you'll also find suggestions to make the page faster .