How to Check Your Blog's Page Load Speed Time?
There are many online website provides to check your blog's speed time for free. You can use any one of the site to check your blog load time. But i would suggest Google
PageSpeed Insights. It is a free web performance tools from the Google and provides site load in desktop and mobile view.
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Submit Blog to Google, Yahoo, Bing Search-engines
How to Speed Up Your Blog Page Load Time?
1. Minify Your Javascript / CSS Code:
In a recent survey, compressing Javascript / css codes will increase 21% size reduction from the original source code. This achieve helps your website load time up to 85% faster as currently you are using.
2. Remove Unnecessary Javascript, CSS Code:
Optimizing your blogger source code is another way of increase your page speed or load time. Since if your source code contains Unnecessary Javascript, CSS functions, then these functions will take time for execution when you access your files. Use the external sites to analyze your website and Remove unnecessary or un-used Javascript and CSS codes from the blogspot template source code.
3. Optimize Images:
Many bloggers they love to use images in their own website or blog to impress users. Consider if you are using a high quality image to your blog, then it will take some time for load when the user views your page. If you optimize that image, then that image will take less time for load from the previous image. Consider the given two images,
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Red Apple
Size: 48.4 KB |
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Red Apple - Optimized
Size: 28.9 KB |
Both two images are looks the same in view but look at the file size. Normal red apple size is 48.4 KB and optimized red apple's size is 28.9 KB.
Optimized image size is lesser than the original image.
Note: Don't do too much optimization for your image, it will reduce the quality of the image. Always use a minimal optimize to your image fir the best quality.
4. Reduce Plugins:
Don't use unwanted plugins to your blogspot blog, since it will takes too much time in overall resources which you have used in your site.
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5. Don't Use Third Party Hosting to Host your Blog File:
Consider, if you are using a Plugin file from another website server. If the host server is getting slow or down, then it will affect your website too. Always use Google server as your primary host server. Do you want to host your files to Google server , Go to '
Google Sites' and create a hosting space by using your google account.
6. Update Plugins, Blog Themes:
Always use a updated version of your Plugins and Themes, Since updated version contains less error and it may fixed previous versions issues, unwanted features.
7. Don't Use High Fancy Google Fonts:
Some bloggers they using Google fonts in their blogs to impress users. In some cases high fancy Google fonts may affect page speed time when blog loads by the user. Always use simple and low end Google web fonts to speed up your blogspot blog.
I hope this tricks will increase your blog speed when the user loads your blog. If you have any doubts just leave a comment. Thanks for reading.