how to increase the speed of my website?

[onlineshop]

is it possible to increase my loading speed of my website? I am on a shared hosting service... therefore there are quite a lot of things I can't install...
This is my -link removed-

 

[pandaa]

Combine and minify JS, CSS sprites, and lossless image compression are a few good techniques. Google them for instructions, they're pretty simple to do.

 

[David]

Yes, it does take a while to load. Shared hosting is obviously the main reason, but there may be issues like image compression - if you are just scaling down a massive image to a small image through the code, then it's still going to take a lot of bandwidth. If you need smaller images, then rescale them in an image editor and compress it. Make use of sprites as well.

 

[onlineshop]

prestashop has already have these functions and it is already done... but it is still slow... sigh... if i move to another shared host, it will still be the same?

my location is in Singapore and my server is in Singapore and I am getting around the same speed as you guys. 3 sec to load up the page... around 5 sec to fully load up...

i am doing -link removed- sales. most of my crowd are in Singapore, but I am looking into internationally...

 

[Commander]

You can always try using CloudFlare. 😉

 

[onlineshop]

I am using Cloudflare. 🙂

but it isn't helping much at all. the speed is still the same..

 

[R44]

Get a virtual server.

 

[onlineshop]

does not have the cash flow to use a VPS. So I am looking at other ways. May look for VPS next year when the sales pick up.

 

[R44]

If you're getting the traffic, or running a site that may need it, then it is better off to get one.

 

[E07.NET]

A theme/template can also affect speed of your site, try using a light template or theme.

 

[Andy Grey]

Few tips to improve website speed:

• Javascripts at bottom, minimize, compress
  Remove related widgets
  Reduce social buttons
  Leverage browser caching
  Load less comments
  Use caching plugin
  Reduce images and their sizes
  Disable gravatars
  Embed less videos
  GZip compression on
  Reduce sidebar / footer clutter
  Avoid extra comment systems

 

[george goudis]

Also if your server supports it, gzip all your external files (.js,.css,images) and use CSS sprite image technic.

 

[RH-Calvin]

There can be 2 reasons for slower loading of your website.
1. Your webhosting service
2. Your home page construction and design

 

[coolframe]

If it's a wordpress blog, an outdated plugin might also slow down your site, also a plugin using thrid parties connections that used a poor hsoting might also slow down your blog

 

[jenniffer harris]

Thanks for sharing all awesome tips. Hope this will work well so I try....

 

[RigPa]

No matter what you are doing use this to test your load speed every time you make any changes to your site: http://www.webpagetest.org/

 

[ollwebsolution]

The Page Speed rule "Optimize images" tries to losslessly compress all images in a page. When it succeeds, it shows the compressed versions. To use the minimized version of an image, in the Page Speed panel, click the link to the compressed version, save it, and use it instead of the original image. A theme/template can also affect speed of your site; try using a light template or theme.
1. Remove query strings from static resources
Specify a character set in HTTP headers to speed up browser rendering. This is done by adding a simple piece of code into your header:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

2. Minify your codes
Removing HTML comments, CDATA sections, whitespaces and empty elements will decrease your page size, reduce network latency and speed up load time.

 

[sokun]

I'm sure you can. Being a programmer you need to optimise the coding perhaps using things like ajax.

 

[khnshaan]

i'll try all these too

 

[Crazy.]

Try caching resources on the client's end, use a CDN that has global POPs and caches on its edge routers (like Akamai, NetDNA, Edgecast).

Good luck.