Hints & Tips New years resolution, put your website on a diet
New years resolution, put your website on a diet
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We’re days into 2011, but it’s never too late to put your website on a diet! Making your website leaner and meaner can help you rank better in Google, keep your site secure and reduce the amount of space and bandwidth you use.
Going back to existing pages and code can be boring when you want to get ahead with fresh content, but reviewing your existing content is a necessary task which can even be inspiring once you get into it.
Delete, delete, delete
Get rid of any themes and plugins you aren’t using, which will help you
keep your website secure as well as freeing up space. Now’s also a good
time to delete all those emails you keep ‘just in case’ or because you
forgot to delete them. Your mail server will thank you.
It’s worth checking through your content as well; deleting, redirecting and amalgamating pages can help you improve visitor experience, cut down on your sitemap and ensure you keep organised. Just be careful you don’t leave a trail of 404s or delete pages important for SEO purposes, and back up your website before going on a deleting spree just in case.
Sort out your scripts and stylesheets
Put all your CSS into one file where possible to improve page speed and
cut down on the number of files you have. If you’ve ever used any
JavaScript on your site, it’s also worth going through your pages and
includes to delete any lines of code no longer in use. Remember to
delete any additional files (such as images) that are used by/associated
with the scripts as well. Another tip is to include your JavaScript at
the bottom of the page rather than the top to increase page speed.
Optimise your images for the web
It’s an annoying extra step in the design process, but it can make all
the difference to your page load times and so can even affect your
search engine ranking. As well as optimising your own individual images,
check any premade themes and templates and optimise where possible to
speed things up. Find out more about saving images for the web here.
More golden rules for using images include: Avoid animations, use thumbnails rather than large images and use the right format for the job.
Speed up your site
After you’ve made your site lean, make it fast with these guides and tutorials:
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