Slow Load Time

Speed up your web site now. Some web sites look great in the boardroom on a T1 or DSL, but load at a snails pace on a 56K phone connection. Let's face it, that over 50 percent of people don't have high speed internet, or are using outdated computers. Make sure to build your web site for all ranges of users.

Web site speed drives them to you.

People enjoy fast web sites and tend to look around longer. (when? when pages load quickly?) The longer they stay, the better chance you have to make a sale. We have seen page view and sales increase just by switching to a faster server. By faster servers this usually means one with fewer web sites on it, or a better back bone connection to the Internet.

Server speed is a major issue. We moved a client's web site off of a server we found was holding nearly 500 web sites, and their sales rose immediately.

How fast is your server speed? Many people claim to save money with low cost web hosting, but many also spend the savings right back in lost sales and visitors. Could your low cost web hosting be costing you a lot more than you think? Server speed is a major area of concern for us. We limit the number of web sites on each of our servers to help keep them running fast. Look through our web design portfolio and see how fast our web sites load. Most of the web sites in our portfolio are hosted by us. We also now offer your own dedicated server for those wanting ultimate speed and control over their web site and server.

Web site speed optimization is done by carefully analyzing the web site for coding mistakes and graphic files that are too large in size. We use high quality software to shrink the file sizes of the graphics to enhance load time. Smashing large graphics into small spaces is another common mistake among beginners that can slow a web site down. Whenever possible, make the graphic the correct size and dimensions for the web page it is going on. A frequent coding mistake we often find is how the site links are set up. The site links hit the DNS server every time instead of linking directly to the page and the graphics.

Use of WYSIWYG "What You See Is What You Get" web site editing software may also cause speed problems. Some web site editors leave a ton of extraneous code in your web site. Starting and stopping font tags after every sentence, overusing stylesheet tags and more. We have fixed web sites with over 1,000 lines of code per page and reduced them to 250 lines of code without noticeable difference to the web site visitor.

As you can see, by applying these methods to our web development, we can greatly increase the speed of your web site.

Why is my web site so slow?

Is your web site loading too slow? Let us analyze your web site for possible problems. Let us see if we can put you in the fast lane. By optimizing graphics, coding, and hosting we can often cut the load time by up to 300 percent.
Web Site Speed Analysis