Hi, everyone. You may have seen the news recently that Google is going to start including how fast pages load in their ranking algorithm. In other words, the faster your home page loads onto someone’s browser, the better Google Quality Score you get and the higher ranking you’ll get on their organic search.
Given that, are there any tips you guys have on how to make the graphic items and other items smaller so that they load quicker?
Sometime around 19/3/08 (at 11:14 -0400) Jamie Turner said:
are there any tips you guys have on how to make the graphic items
and other items smaller so that they load quicker?
First of all, remember that this will be just one of a great many
different things that make up your page and site’s final placing in
search engine results. So don’t panic, just make sure things are at
least moderately efficient.
To do that, try turning on Graphics Preview in the View menu. With
this enabled, select an item and look through the Inspector palette.
With this mode on, not only do you see exactly how your graphics will
look in the layout with the current level of compression or
optimising, you will also be able to see precisely how large a
selected graphic will be. You will also see how things change when
you alter the compression level or number of colours in the Inspector.
Hi Jamie,
Obviously you should keep an eye on the size of the resources on your pages
(images, video, Flash content etc.) but one simple addition is to ask the
server to compress the page data before transmitting it to the browser. The
browser on the other end does the extraction and, typically, the user sees the
page that bit faster. It also has the benefit of saving on bandwidth charges
(should they apply).
As an example have a look at the Web Fast action at http://www.freewayactions.com/product.php?id=021
The action adds a simple snippet of PHP code to the head of the document which
negotiates with the browser to see if it can send it compressed data. If it can
then the page data is compressed on the fly. If not then the raw data is sent
without compression. The only thing to keep in mind is that your pages should
have a valid .php file extension for this to work.
Hi, everyone. You may have seen the news recently that Google is going to
start including how fast pages load in their ranking algorithm. In other
words, the faster your home page loads onto someone’s browser, the better
Google Quality Score you get and the higher ranking you’ll get on their
organic search.
Given that, are there any tips you guys have on how to make the graphic items
and other items smaller so that they load quicker?