Tara Grant writing on the Work @ Home Parent’s Network:
Having an eye catching website is great, but are you optimizing your website to allow the best performance possible? I receive several emails a day from clients asking how they can get more hits to their websites, what can be done to increase sales, and how to prepare their sites for search engines. There are very simple things that can be done to help your website perform its best.First of all, a websites load time is important for many reasons. No one wants to site and wait a minute for a page to show up. Slow loading websites can attribute to lost sales for your business! Many customers will actually avoid a website that takes a long time to load. You can keep your websites load time down drastically but keeping the size 26kb or smaller. If you are unsure of the size if your site you can calculate the size of your web page by highlighting the HTML document, then click on ‘File’ and ‘Properties’ and see your file size. Then repeat same step for each graphic you have on that page. Add each file size together to get the exact size of that page. One of the easiest ways to get a faster loading page is to shrink the images on your website. A GIF graphic can normally be reduced by around 30-40% without loosing any sharpness.
FYI, Tara is a mom of two small children and a warm-hearted entrepreneur. An avid networker in the WAHM community, Tara’s website designs and promotion packages are reasonably priced and geared toward female entrepreneurs and small businesses.
Steve Davis on November 25th, 2004 at 1:29 pm
These posts are great. I now know why I keep coming back. Thanks!