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Does anyone know how to make the pages load faster?

http://artfulwisdom.net/ This is a HUGE problem for us, Please help.

sorry the actually link is http://artfulwisdom.net/

3 Answers

A Good way to start is to run your site through Google’s page speed tool, this will give you excellent insight on what is causing lag and how to fix it.

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/

In general, the best method to ensure your web pages load fast is to minimize then number of files and size of files that must be downloaded when the page is loaded. Reducing the file size of individual page assets cuts the time needed to communicate bytes from the web host to the end-user's browser.

Keep the following in mind when working towards optimising your site for better and faster rendering. This is not at all comprehensive, and I encourage you to do some more research to help you understand all the factors involved in optimization and page rendering.

Optimize your images: Images that are optimized using lossless methods are visually identical to their original images. Do a quick google search and you’ll find many tools and applications that do the trick.

Content served without HTTP Compression: Enabling compression on your web server can dramatically reduce the size of the loaded page.

Compress your Javascript & CSS: You know those files named something.min.js - well minification os the process of removing all unnecessary characters from the code without changing its functionality. It’s readability is compromised, but it reduces the file size and thus helps in improving page speeds.

This is just scratching the surface, here are some useful links.

https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/about https://moz.com/blog/15-tips-to-speed-up-your-website https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/HTML/Tips_for_authoring_fast-loading_HTML_pages https://blog.kissmetrics.com/speed-is-a-killer/

Cheers,

Your page is made up of four parts (Home, what we do, our approach and hire us). Maybe have a simple homepage that loads fast. Have your website link to four different pages. Don't try to load everything into one page. Design some of your text as graphics. I think you should not animate the social media links on the right side of the page because you did not animate all you links. The combination of CSS and javascript code used is too much.

Mayk.

those are just segments if anything just to leave some kind of reason for the user to check out the rest of the site. I kinda wanted that part there but is there another way? if not I guess i would have to go with the route you just provided.