Speed speed this is on every bloggers lips of late as Google formally announce that page speed will now be a factor in the ranking of website that means the faster your page loads the better you will fair off in the search engine results pages.for those who follow this blog will remember that not so long ago i wrote a post about web design page speed. So are you keeping up to date with this? I asked the question is your website up to speed? what steps are you taking to ensure that your blog or website is loading quickly?
For me this does not comes as a surprise because of Google’s philosophy which states that “Take care of the users experience and the rest will follow” well there you have it guys. There are lots of tools available for you to use and check your website loading time and webmasters and web designers alike you too should play your role in educing the size of your web pages by compressing JavaScript files,optimizing your cascading style sheets, reduce the number of database calls and optimizing or reducing the size of your images.
Looking for help if you do a Google search then you will find some very useful and handy tools that are free which you can use to test the loading time of your website some of the popular ones are firebug Yslow and sitting in Google’s arsenals of webmaster tools is one called Speed Tracer.If you think that your website is not loading fast enough then by all means install Speed Tracer which is an extension for Google chrome the developers’ version.
Using Speed Tracer
First and foremost you need to get the developers’ version of chrome after downloading it you need to follow the instruction to make the switch this will then install Speed Tracer as an extension to chrome you can download from https://code.google.com/webtoolkit/speedtracer/ and follow the instruction.Once install you will see the Speed Tracer icon next to the address bar.Now there you have website loading time is something we all need to look at as website owners and bloggers what do you think is this important or should you ignore it? the answer for me is no getting it right takes time but you should not ignore it after all it is your blog your business you need to look after it. Now share with me what tools you use to check your website speed is Speed Tracer of any good to us or is it too complicated. Thanks for reading this far now share your views.