Recently, I received some feedback that GEORYL’s page load time is becoming slow. Checking out one of the tools discussed in the post Four Links Bloggers Must Check Out, I saw that indeed, GEORYL’s page load time had significantly increased. From an average of 2 to 4 seconds, it had gone up to 9 to 12 seconds!
Friends, I really apologize for such a delay. Time is gold and making you wait for this site to load is really not in my agenda. In an effort to tweak and design my site, it slipped my mind that page load speed is still an important consideration when it comes to web designing. Even Google thinks so because they are also including page load time in determining a site’s page rank.
Here’s what I’ve done so far:
- Reverted to Georgia font instead of a font from the Google Font Directory (KB removed: 81.4; page load time difference: – 1.1 seconds)
- Removed Facebook and Twitter widgets on homepage (Speed gained:-1 second)
I’ll still be removing other stuff on my site in the next few days. Again, sorry for having GEORYL slow you down.
Happy blogging everyone!
There is difference nga when it comes sa loading time. Magawa nga yan sa blog ko. Sayang naman, 2nd commenter ako. hehe
hmmm mabilis na sya magload ngayon pero true, mga widgets and kung ano anong jabascripts nga ang nakakapagpabagal sa isang site…
Nalito ako Sheryl sa post mo…..I know if page load is so slow, it means your loading time is increased. In order to speed up the page load time of a site, the loading time has to decrease. Increasing from 4 sec. to 12 seconds for downloading time is not good. For example, if this site loads up in 30 seconds, that is very slow, but if it loads up in 5 seconds, that is very quick.
My blog is slow too….but I cannot do anything to quicken it anymore. I had removed all unnecessary widgets and CSS codes a long time ago, but I guess it’s fine because the “left side” of my column loads quickly which contains my main content —-rather than the “right side” where widgets and ads are located.
hi bing. my site’s load time used to be 2 to 4 seconds but now, it’s 9 to 12. yes, the page load time increased so the site became slow.
i need to remove a few more images and optimize the header coz it’s more than 50kb (if i’m not mistaken). right now, focus muna ako in learning more css codes so that i can design the site mostly with css codes (and not images).
I’m not aware with this things hindi ko nga alam ang speed ng site ko hahah .. well will check it out!
Now i know, nagmamatter din pala ang fonts sa load time ng page. Ok naman na sa kin ang load time na site na ito sis She.