Top 6 factors affecting website speed

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According to a research, 47% of consumers expect web pages to load in 2 seconds or even less. So, whatever the reason for their visit is, consumers expect to land on your website as quickly as possible. If you can speed up the entire process, you can actually convert potential visits to beneficial sales. However, ignoring the following factors can affect the website speed to a large extent:

Web host:

In the case of a shared server environment, the web host may not be able to accommodate all your website needs. Therefore, you need to switch your web host or upgrade your current web hosting plan if your website hosts a huge volume of files or is hit by traffic spikes failing which would slow down your website speed.

Web host

File types:

Though images, audios, videos, and animations make a website more attractive but these files take a longer time to download. Image files (gif, jpg), audio files (mp3), video files(Avi, Swf) and bitmap files (used to store digital images) highly affect the website speed.

File types

Modem connection speed:

The modem connection is yet another factor that affects the website speed. It depends on the speed of the internet connection.

Internet speed

PC performance factors:

These factors also affect the performance of a website due to the cache memory and other factors like viruses. When the user’s cache memory is full, he/she will not be able to store more data on other websites. Also, a low processor speed can adversely affect a website’s performance. Apart from this, some browsers are not capable of displaying all types of content such as flash content. Thus poor browser and app choices also lower the website speed.

Browsers

Widgets and plugins:

Widgets and plugins are meant to add more useful features on your site. However, too many of these can cause your web pages to load slowly. As a matter of fact, the more plugins and widgets you install, the more work it requires on your website while it loads.

Plugins

Online ads:

Online advertisements help in monetizing your site. However, these ad network codes, mostly based on Javascript have the tendency to slow down the website speed.