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5. Speed up website loading times

I guess you are just like me, I hate slow loading websites. Yes, I know I am too impatient, but most of the people visiting your website are too! There are different factors that can affect the loading speed of your website. As mentioned above you need to host your website on a fast and reliable web server.

Cheap slow hosting may save you some cash, but fast hosting will help you make cash! Remember to check my list of hosting providers in the content above.

If you take a picture on your phone or download an image from a stock library, you will find the file size can be between 2MB to 10MB. Now that is way too large and you need to apply compression techniquesto fix the file size. Not to worry as it is really a super simple process.

First, you need to re-size the image, as most images will be way too large. Check with your website developer for a suitable width and height of images. To be fair the width is more important than the height. Most of the images in my blog posts are 1100px wide and the height is determined by the type of image content.

I like free software, so I use GIMP image editor to resize images. Here is a free tutorial to help you out.