In order to run a business online, your website needs to be fast to serve the users. Website speed is an impression that will be considered by the users and even developers and testers who build it. High-performing websites result in various positive factors including more visits, low bounce rates, engagement, and high ranking.
The below-mentioned techniques help developers to build websites that will be more effective and fast on runtime.
- Use Content Delivery Network (CDN):
A Content delivery network is a location-based web server that provides the user with web content based on the user's location. Generally, there will be many servers, the web content is shared with the user from the nearest server of the CDN which makes the content delivered within a short time.
- Image Optimization & Compression:
Scale your images which can be accessed easily, If possible make the images and other files capable. Large images in the server may slow down the website performance when multiple users request the resources which are shared across multiple users at the same time. Large images can be compressed and optimized for better website performance. There are many tools available in the market to do so. They are listed below: https://imageoptim.com/online https://kraken.io/ https://tinypng.com/
You can use the below .htaccess code to server your images with the WebP format:
RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_ACCEPT} image/webp RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/$1.webp -f RewriteRule ^(path/to/your/images.+).(jpe?g|png)$ $1.webp [T=image/webp,E=accept:1] Header append Vary Accept env=REDIRECT_accept AddType image/webp .webp
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