Tweak your Template For Faster loading and More Visitors

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How to Make your Blog load Faster

The Main Reason to Make your Blog Load faster in my Opinion is that People have very Short attention Spans and if there are many Objects on the Page they will be gone very quickly as an Entrecard user I have seen Many crazy blogs that never seem to Load.

Here are Some things you can do To increase Page load times

First Check your Page Size if it's any More than 75k you will have to start cleaning it up a little.

Next Put your Banners in Posts about the Programs you are Promoting this will have a far Greater effect than leaving them on the Page as people will know what they are about and will be more interested in them.

If you have many Gadgets or even worse Autoplaying Videos and Music on the Page it's time to Do something with them. Make the Video box small as people can watch the Videos in Full Screen anyway if they wish. Music should never be on Autoplay it's simple Do you Want people to Read your Post or listen to song as Both at the Same time are Difficult.

It could also be your Template that is causing the Problems as a badly written Template can Cause the Page to Load Slowly. Check the Size of your Raw template it could be very nice but way to big.

Put a maximum of 3 posts per page 5 if you are a microblogger, If you have more than 200 words then better just put one Post on the Main Page.

There are Many Other Ways to Speed up loading Time like Turning off Image and Multimedia ads which can Be very annoying any one that uses Hotmail will know this. Other things Include Page Load Time Scripts and CSS Validate which I can't Advise on so you may do a little Research on these. Here are Some tools you can use to check and Improve Page load Times.Web Page Analyzer - Free web page analysis tool calculates page size, composition, and download time. Gives speed recommendations based on best practices for usability, HCI, and website optimization.

Packer is a Great Tool for your Scripts

There are many things you can Do to make your page load faster and get more Traffic these are just a few I thought I would mention.

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