Is your website loading to slow, losing visitors before your site has even finished loading, read this post to see how you can change that.

When Google’s latest search engine template launched (caffeine) it soon become very clear that page load times where going to be used as part of how it ranks websites. Google as always thinking about the users experience and wanting to deliver excellent quality content, easy navigation, images that reflect content and now, page load time. Industry experts have expected something of this kind after Matt Cutts (Senior engineer at Google) explained that “fast load times may have a positive effect on rankings” at a recent seminar in the states.

Some reasons why your web pages are loading slowly:

  • You are using a slow host server – upgrade or move host servers.
  • You are using slow redirects – try and avoid this.
  • You have large images on your site – consider changing image sizes and/or image.
  • Your pages are excessively long – try to avoid this where ever possible.
  • You have an unnecessary amount of cookies

For more reasons why your page could be loading slowly, read Angel SEO’s article – How can I improve my site’s speed for Google.

If you would like some no obligation advice about your website loading times contact SEO Nottingham specialists Angel SEO.