+- Sinisterly (https://sinister.li)
+-- Forum: Design (https://sinister.li/Forum-Design)
+--- Forum: Web Design (https://sinister.li/Forum-Web-Design)
+--- Thread: Ways to make your website faster (/Thread-Ways-to-make-your-website-faster)
Pages:
1
2
Ways to make your website faster - Oxyrus - 08-07-2015
Hello, I've been reading a bit about it because I'm a big fan of the loading speed, so those are methods than I learnt across my journey.
Use Static Files
Generating a dynamic page takes more time than rendering a static file, in example in the entries of a blog the data of it is static, however, the ads are not. If you're using WordPress you can use Really Static in order to achieve this, if you're running another CMS or application you must code/configure a static page system by your own.
CloudFlare
It gives you a basic DDoS protection and also it caches your assets, which makes your page loads way faster and decreases your bandwidth transfer.
Squash Images
The popular images editors are not that good when it comes to compress the images, so they usually add unnecessary extra KB's on those, but don't worry, if you're using a Mac you can use https://imageoptim.com/ and if you're running Windows you should give a try to http://nikkhokkho.sourceforge.net/static.php?page=FileOptimizer
Use small glyph icon libs
Simple, don't add glyphs that you're not going to use, it's pointless to add an entire library of glyphs when you're just going to use 2 or 3, it just adds unnecessary KB's to the page. But, don't worry, you can use http://fontello.com/ and select the glyphs that you want to use in order to save some time load.
That's it for the moment, if you know about a trick feel free to post it
RE: Ways to make your website faster - User_mybb_import14239 - 08-07-2015
Nice little guide!
RE: Ways to make your website faster - Oxyrus - 08-07-2015
(08-07-2015, 03:45 AM)User Wrote: Nice little guide!
You're welcome, probably I will add more ways in the next days.
RE: Ways to make your website faster - Captin_Lulzboat - 08-07-2015
I personally hate cloudflare. But nice tips. If your really worried about DDOS, you can set up protection on the actual server to stop them instead of leaning on a thirdparty to handle it for you
cloudflare websites have still gone down with a nice size dos.
RE: Ways to make your website faster - Oxyrus - 08-07-2015
(08-07-2015, 06:55 PM)Captin_Lulzboat Wrote: I personally hate cloudflare. But nice tips. If your really worried about DDOS, you can set up protection on the actual server to stop them instead of leaning on a thirdparty to handle it for you
That's true, but if you don't have the budget to pay a VPS or a decent DDoS protection this comes really handy.
RE: Ways to make your website faster - iLoveBeagles - 08-07-2015
Or just enter your website at gtmetrix.com.
RE: Ways to make your website faster - Spider - 08-09-2015
Run Nginx instead of apache.
RE: Ways to make your website faster - Venti - 08-11-2015
(08-07-2015, 07:32 PM)Oxyrus Wrote:(08-07-2015, 06:55 PM)Captin_Lulzboat Wrote: I personally hate cloudflare. But nice tips. If your really worried about DDOS, you can set up protection on the actual server to stop them instead of leaning on a thirdparty to handle it for you
That's true, but if you don't have the budget to pay a VPS or a decent DDoS protection this comes really handy.
RamNode gives a DDoS-filtered IP for $5 extra on their VPSes via Staminius iirc.
RE: Ways to make your website faster - Kill - 08-11-2015
@Oxyrus, as well use some PHP cachier
RE: Ways to make your website faster - Kotomi - 08-16-2015
This is a good thread for beginners it's a lot of nice easy ways to increase load time.