12 Ways to Make a Webpage Load Faster

ARTICLE SNIPPET - Learn 12 Ways to Make A Webpage Load Faster as Slow Load Time, Even with High Speed Connections, Continues to Cause Loss of Revenue for Many Website Publishers

As webpages grow in complexity and designers strive to provide impact and interactivity, the process of loading a page can take longer and longer—even over high speed connections. Slow loading pages cause loss of readers, pages views and advertising impressions. This all translates into loss of revenue. Web designers and developers are challenged to provide a complex interface, packed with content and advertising in a small, quick-loading package. This skill builder discusses 12 ways to get the job done.

To get into the inside of this, you have to understand that HTML is a computer language. It is linear. The Web browser is a program that interprets the HTML code. It will look at a line or block of code, do what it tells it to do, and then come back to the next line and keep going until the end of the HTML page. The Web browser is a program that interprets the HTML code—it will look at a line or block of code, do what it tells it to do, and then come back to the next line and keep going until the end of the HTML page.

To figure out why your code is slow, take a lineal look at what it is doing—think of an HTML page like the board game MouseTrap where you build a trap that is driven by a chain of events. Making your images smaller and reducing rollovers saves immeasurable load time, and never, never, never put a Java applet in an HTML page.

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