Optimizing web page loading time

There are a few important things that need our attention when visitors arrive for first time to our site. One of those things is how fast the download time? If it takes a lot of time to load, the visitors maybe leave and try to visit another page. With faster loading time, it will save more money and time. Although it is true that download time depends on the internet connection speed, but as the page owner we may try to optimize it to speed up the time.

We can use some online tools to check the download time of our blog. Such as Website Speed Test can show you the page size, load time, and average speed per KB.

For more detail information you also can try Web Page Analyzer. It will help to find element by element of our page template that effects our load time on each internet connection speeds.

Some of the tips that can increase our site's performance:
1. Multimedia gadgets
It is cool to have music, videos, slideshows or some flash gadgets on our blog. But all this files take a lot of time to load. Try to create text links to these gadgets, or just remove that we really don't need.

2. Images
Reducing the file size or change the image quality will also help to improve the speed. Using GIF images is faster that using the JPG images.

3. Scripts
Using lots of scripts in our blog will effect our loading time when these sites were slow enough in delivering the information. Your blog counters for example are using scripts.

4. Display posts
Reducing the total posts to display in your main page will also help too. Or in other way write shorter posts.

Any more suggestions ?