Denver Web Design Blog - Katz Web Design

Load time matters

Imagine waiting 18 seconds for a page to load (on a high-speed connection) — not just the home page, but any inside page of a website.  Pretty frustrating, right?  Having bad load times makes a huge difference to your customers.  I helped a new client reduce page load time from 19 seconds to 3 seconds.

A case study for load time

I am the new webmaster for a website, and it was having some issues: it was taking far too long to load the page.

I looked at the code, and identified many issues with performance, including placement of Javascript files, linking to a CSS file that didn’t exist, and including Amazon link enhancer code that only was needed for one page of the site, but had been included on every page.

Just over one hour later, I was able to reduce the load time considerably:

Is your website loading slowly?

I can recommend changes to your site. Let me know if you need help. Also, you can learn more about how to improve your load speed from Yahoo!