5 Tips To Boost Page Speed

5 Tips To Boost Page Speed

While the above information is interesting and good to know, the real question is, how can you speed up your site today? Below are a few tips to help you do just that.
1. Optimize Your Database
Most sites use databases to store information. If you have an e-commerce store, blog, news site, or any type of dynamic functionality like internal search, then you are using a database. However, your database can impact your page speed.
Adding an index is one of the best ways to optimize your database for page speed improvements. Doing so will help your database find information faster. Instead of having to scan millions of records, your database can rely on an index to narrow down the data to a few hundred. This helps the data get returned to the page much faster.
For example, recently I was working on a site where the most popular pages were loading very slowly, taking between two to ten seconds each.
The problem was buried in the database — the table that stored the requested data didn’t have an index on it. After adding the index, the average page load time was reduced from the 2- to 10-second range to less than 1 second.
As you can see in the chart below, some load times were north of ten seconds — and, as I mentioned earlier, nobody is going to wait that long for a page to load. (Note that the page load times are measured in seconds — the lower the number, the faster the page loaded.)

Page Speed Comparison Chart