Killer tactics to speed up your mobile website

A website’s performance decides whether a visitor stays or abandons it. Website visitors today, mostly access the internet through mobile devices and have relatively short attention spans. It’s imperative to have a mobile website and keep up to their expectations so as to boost website conversions. But the question is, how’s that done? Read on to know the answer:

Make use of minification:

Minification refers to the process of simplifying the website components such as heavy-handed HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. In other words, minifying means manually going through coding and weeding out the text that’s not needed so as to eliminate any wastage of time required to load a webpage and speed up your mobile website.

Eliminate redirects:

Redirects are the instructions meant to take the website visitors from a particular location on the present page to some other location. Redirects are responsible for creating a slower page load. This further becomes problematic for mobile devices as they depend on less reliable networks than the desktop users. So, consider using these redirects if you want to speed up your mobile website.

Prioritize above the fold content:

You can speed up your mobile website by making the top of a web page load faster by using only one CSS stylesheet and no inline CSS. You can also consider splitting your CSS into two parts:

i) a short inline part that styles the top elements of page

ii) an external part that is deferrable

Eliminate the usage of plugins:

This is yet another effective method of speeding up your website. Instead of using third party plugins like Flash or Java to deliver sound files, make use of HTML 5 for the same. HTML 5 is supported by mobile browsers, hence speeding up the website.

Leverage Gooogle PageSpeed insights:

Using this amazing tool from Google, you can simply check how your website performs on a mobile device. PageSpeed Insights gives you an overall report of how your website performed and what really needs to be fixed so as to improve the website speed.

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