By this time, we all know the importance of fast loading pages and the impacts slow loading pages can have. To check the load speed of your website, you must have done a site speed audit or obtained it done from someone else. Though the tips suggested by almost everyone are helpful for businesses, there is no denying that they are narrow as well. We go through the tips offered and then dive into them to obtain fruitful results.  

Moreover, if studied well, there are other ideas as well that help to improve website speed. There are a plethora of different strategies that are not talked about in general. Businesses improve site speeds by carrying out a bunch of small practices. Hence, in this post today, we are going to cover some differently cool tips that are proven to improve the speed of a website. Let us see page speed optimization from a different perspective.  

SVG images instead of PNG 

SVG is the vector image, and so they are the best considered and well-suited to represent various things on a website. Use them for icons if your site has PNG images embedded. Designers can provide you with original SVG images, ask them for one as it helps to save your website a lot. SVG images are practically much lighter than PNG images, and they are proven to save up to 60% of filesize.  

Moreover, it is observed that there are specific tools available online that effectively compress SVG images. These SVG image compression tools make much difference in larger file sizes. Not just the icons, use SVG format for all your images. While compression, there is no loss in quality, and they sometimes make a difference with a good ratio range.  

Say no to Javascript! Let HTML handle the functions 

Web developers are all aware of how Javascript is a life savior! All thanks to their libraries because of which on-the-shelf solutions are found nowadays. Though we feel that Javascript is used for certain functionalities that are easily achievable without it as well, to implement more features, you will have to download more files and maybe add them to the server. Execution time is sometimes more significant and it costs much.  

Javascript takes much time for all these functions. Developers are often told about a particular functionality, and nothing is defined about the working, all they are being told is the function. However, they are usually just dropped in too by the developers without achieving anything. Moreover, functionalities are believed to work a lot better, even with HTML and CSS.  

Tuning Networking 

Resources are collected from the server by a browser, and messages are sent by it across the internet. We are all aware that the speed of light limits internet speed. Though it may sound a bit weird to you, there is no denying that even a small request affects the load time of a webpage. There are some technical details for this point, and developers can achieve good load time speed.  

Some strategies effectively help to reduce either the length between these requests or the number of round trips it needs to complete a request. These tips are a bit more technical but are sure to do wonders to the speed of web pages.  

Integrate CSS more 

As we saw that HTML has more functionality than we assume and when used efficiently, they help to sway from depending on solutions provided by Javascript and require more coding for its integration. CSS can do the same. It can do more than we have imagined. It helps you to reuse the same images that are available on more than one web page. CSS can get your menus and tabs organized as well, without using Javascript. Use CSS more! 

Wrapping up 

We hope that these points help you get faster loading pages and increased conversions. You will get a bonus for making your site perform well. It is that your website will rank higher on search engine result pages. Think out of the box when it comes to site speed. Have an appreciable impact about the site speed.