Make your website go faster!!

There are several ways to make your website load faster. Here are the things you should do first:

• Don't overload your website with graphics. Try to keep the total size of graphics on one page under 20 kb. Compress the graphics. If the graphic has one to four colors use GIF, if it has more colors use JPG.

• Only use graphics when needed. You can do a lot with style attributes! Don't use them for a text message or something like that. Only use them for things you can't achieve with the style tags.

• Don't use Java. They load slowly, take much of the CPU's capacity and they're difficult to program.

• Use streaming media, like Flash4. The objects will load while they are already playing what is loaded.

• Split up your pages! For example: If you have a huge article and it has 3 main subjects, make for each subject a different page and start the article with an intro page with a short description and links to the different pages.

• Don't choose for a web host in one day. Ask around which host is fast. You will be nothing with unlimited web space if it loads so slow that people exit the site without they have seen one thing of the website.

• Don't exaggerate with JavaScript. Use one or two scripts but not twenty on one page! It will make the page load much more slower.

• If you have a database kind of site, use frames. This way you can put all the graphics in the frames and they don't have to be loaded page after page. (Don't use frames if you have not a database kind of site)

• Don't use image backgrounds. Mostly they are kind of heavy and they have to be loaded page after page. 

• Don't use too mutch Flash4.

• Don't put too mutch information on one page.

• If you use graphics, don't use animated gif's.  Because it have a very long download time.

• Don't use sound (.wav, .mp3, .mdi) files.  It have a very long download time and mostly they are kind of heavy and they have to be loaded page after page.

I'm sure your website will load much faster after you checked all these things. You may have two bad points, let them, it's not a disaster! But if you have 4 or more bad points there is work to do!

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