What are three ways to reduce page load time?

Three ways that could help you to decrease your web page load time are:

1. Optimize the images of your web page.
2. Minimize the HTTP requests.
3. Use less plugins while designing the website
 
Try to use less code. By less code I mean use procedures and functions as much as you can. You can significantly reduce your website loading speed and make your website codes user (and developer) friendly.
 
Some tips for reducing the web pages loading times are :
• Check the Current Speed of the Website
• Optimize your Images
• Don't Scale Down Images
• Compress and Optimize your Content
• Put Style sheet References at the Top
• Put Script References at the Bottom
• Place JavaScript and CSS in External Files
• Minimize HTTP Requests
• Cache your Web Pages
• Reduce 301 Redirects
• Reduce Server Response Time
• Minify Resources
• Prioritize Above-the-fold Content
• Reduce the number of plug-in you use on your site
 
There techniques that could assist you to reduce the page load time of your website are:

1. Make the HTML code less messy
2. Use low quality images
3. Use less plug-ins

Hope these techniques could lower down the page load time quickly.
 
I had slow load times for one of my programs. I decided to see how much time was spent on the server executing the PHP code. I did this by writing the system time to a file at the beginning of the script and then again to a separate file at the end of the script, and I subtracted the start time from the end time. Note, I wrote the time to file because I was using AJAX and a print statement would break the program, so if your not using AJAX then you can use print statements.

My program was taking up to 10 seconds executing the PHP code. I then output the system time in various points in the code, and repeated the process until I was able to narrow it down to one small section of code. I fixed the code and got the load time to less than a second.

Hope this helps
 
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