Advice on speeding up your web site.

Posted by jcravens42

on 8 May 2012 12:19 PM

If your organization’s Web site isn’t up to speed, you could be losing donors and other supporters. But a free online tool, Google’s Page Speed, can help offer a quick analysis of the code on your site to determine whether it is loading as quickly as it can and offers recommendations for changes that can add zip to a sluggish site.

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Posted by Yann

on 15 May 2012 6:53 AM

Your site's loading time should take no more than a few seconds to complete. If your website fails to load completely in the first 10 seconds of a visit, most people will leave without hesitation. This means lost donors, lost orders, and you'll lose whatever else you had hoped people would accomplish on your site.

Google's Page Speed is a useful tool. There are lots of things that can be done to make sure your site loads quickly, such as cleaning up your site's code (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.), optimizing images, and so on.

To quote Matt Cutts of Google's Search Quality group: "Speed is [one] factor in Google's ranking."

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Posted by MVFYMCA

on 11 Jun 2012 3:25 PM

I highly suggest everyone who develops websites use the Pagespeed and YSlow plugins with the Firebug plugin for Firefox. Also www.html5boilerplate.com is a great resource if you're starting from scratch and want a solid foundation to start your website with.

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Posted by Simon-CA

on 19 Jun 2012 8:51 AM

Love that Page Speed tool.

Another great resource is Google Analytics. If you have it installed on your site, you can go to the Content tab and examine the page load times of all your content. From there you can pinpoint which pages are loading too slowly.

Simon Choy
Effective online marketing for charities
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Posted by MVFYMCA

on 19 Jun 2012 10:52 AM

I haven't been using Google Analytics to much at my current job over the past year. The speed report is a great new addition. Thanks for sharing Simon.

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