After establishing your website and attracting traffic you should check your server load to ensure smooth working of your websites. It is proven that excess load is passed on to the server because of the use of large pictures, excess use of JavaScript and the large CSS files. This may slower the performance of your website and can annoy your loyal clients or visitors. There are certain tips that you should follow to ensure proper load on your server.

Make use of YSlow that can help you in determining the need of resources and downloading times for your website. It also provides information on how to improve the downloading time.

There is a service that can be used apart from Photoshop for your images known as Smush.it. This tool makes use of an image format that is specific makes use of optimization tools, which reduce the size of the image without actually having a great impact on its quality in terms of visual appeal. It also provides information on how many bytes per image can be saving using this service. The service can be used by going to their website and make use of the up loader that they provide. This is a must use the service if you use a lot of images on your website. This is a fantastic service because you reduce the size of the image without compromising on the quality unlike other image formats.

Another tip to reduce the load is to move your JavaScript files at the bottom of your web page. This may not be always possible but trying does not harm in any way so give it a shot where you can. The way it helps is when a browser reads your web page it has plenty of information to go through in terms of images, CSS and other scripts. By placing the JavaScript at the end the browser first reads the important information and in the end reads the JavaScript which reduces the load.

You can also slit your data among different domains. This way you can divide the data and place your content on one domain and the images for the content on another domain. By dividing the data on different domains you increase the chances for the visitor or the browser for parallel download since the data is downloaded from two different domains.

Make use of CSS sprites to check on the load on your server. When you make sue of the CSS sprites you would combine all the background images on a page into a one single image and the position that image making use of CSS. So the way it works for you, instead of multiple download a single image is downloaded. Google makes use of CSS sprites to combine multiple images into one and this reduces its server load. Read information about this technique on the internet since it is very useful, search and find out how it can assist you to reduce your server load time.

by Loren Allen