How to speed up your website

 Near the king of all factors that is represented by the content, a website must be simple in navigation and structure, pleasant, functional and, most of all, fast.

By following this article you will realize that a fast website will increase the user experience very much and this brings you returning visitors and, why not, happy visitors. You will also learn how to optimize your website for speed with almost no cost at all.

There are almost 50 tricks to read, understand, analyze and implement into your website. Tricks that are designed to make your pages load faster under the same server, with the same investment in most cases.

Without further talking about the huge importance of a fast website I invite you to read carefully every method of optimizing that is presented below this line. I'm sure many of you missed some of them.

Reduce the number of colors in your graphics
Reduce the number of colors in your graphics in order to lower the size of your graphics.

Avoid using flash as much as possible
Avoid using flash as much as possible because, usually, flash loads harder due to their sizes.

Remove the HTML comments from your pages
Yes, comments can slow your website down. Big or small, comments have something to say when it comes to page size.

Use caching
Set the browser?s cache expiration. This can be easily done using PHP in order to send some headers. For example, let's take a js file called scripts.js. In order to use caching we will create a new file called scripts.js.php and add the following code at the very beginning of it which will set the cache to expire in 3 days:

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