Website Speed: Why It Matters and How to Make Your Site Faster

Website speed directly impacts your revenue, search rankings, and customer satisfaction.

The Numbers

A 1-second delay results in 7% fewer conversions. 53% of mobile users abandon sites taking longer than 3 seconds. Page speed is a confirmed Google ranking factor.

What Makes a Website Slow?

Poor hosting: Budget providers oversell servers. When traffic spikes, everyone slows down.

Unoptimised images: A single uncompressed photo can be 5MB. On a website, it should be under 200KB.

Too many plugins: Each plugin adds code that loads on every page.

No caching: Without caching, your server rebuilds every page from scratch for every visitor.

How to Fix It

Start with quality SSD hosting with built-in caching. Compress images. Use a CDN.

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