A Small Thing that Encourages Visitors on a BlogWritten by Abdulrehman on September 1st, 2008
Let’s be honest how long does your computer take when you open this blog? 2 Seconds on DSL, and perhaps 15 seconds on Dial - Up. This page’s size is between 30-40 KB. But if you have a lot of Stuff on your blog and the size of your blog’s main page is more than 150 KB. You can easily expect 20% of your potential readers to not read your blog. I usually like to check some statistics of my blog, and recently I noticed that a lot of people who visit this blog do not use DSL, which means they can still visit the website with no big problems. But if the size of your blog’s pages is more than 100 KB, you can expect the Dial-up users to leave your website at once, even those using DSL may get fed-up of waiting time for the blog, and it may even crash up some old computers.
It was because of this reason I designed this blog myself, to keep it’s size as less as possible. Although I had to put some graphics on the page to keep up with the modern-age websites, I kept their size as low as possible. I have seen websites putting the crappiest things like calenders and clocks on a web-page which make the page heavy, and probably the last person on earth would make use of a blog to confirm the home time and date. So I have some tips to keep the page’s size low:
- Try not to put too many images on the page as that would make the page very heavy, try to optimize pictures for your blog to keep the quality of the image good with the size decreasing by a larger rate.
- Try not to put every widget you find on the web straight to your blog, think for a second and if it is going to do good to your blog, only then put it on.
- Make sure that banners of sponsors or other advertising are not too heavy, at a maximum 15 Kb per banner.
- If you’re using Adobe Photoshop for images make sure you save all images using ‘Save For Web’ option, as that helps you keep the size of the image low.
- Where possible, try to put text links instead of images.
- If you know CSS, make sure you make good use of it while making containers with dynamic length on your blog’s pages.
- Always try to check the size of your page once in a while and do a check on it’s loading time at Submit Express or Alexa. That will let you know if you website’s loading time is more compared to other websites.
However, I am not forcing you do take these measures on your blog’s pages. Usually the most heavy page is the main page so try to look out for that, as other pages are commonly of a lower size than that. Check if your readers are all using High-speed internet and if so then you can put as much stuff on a page as a normal high-speed internet could open in 5 seconds. The aim of this article is to let you know about potential Low-speed internet users who form a small majority on the Internet even today, and how you do not want to lose traffic.
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Let’s be honest how long does your computer take when you open this blog? 2 Seconds on DSL, and perhaps 15 seconds on Dial - Up. This page’s size is between 30-40 KB. But if you have a lot of Stuff on your blog and the size of your blog’s main page is more than 150 KB. You can easily expect 20% of your potential readers to not read your blog. I usually like to check some statistics of my blog, and recently I noticed that a lot of people who visit this blog do not use DSL, which means they can still visit the website with no big problems. But if the size of your blog’s pages is more than 100 KB, you can expect the Dial-up users to leave your website at once, even those using DSL may get fed-up of waiting time for the blog, and it may even crash up some old computers.
It was because of this reason I designed this blog myself, to keep it’s size as less as possible. Although I had to put some graphics on the page to keep up with the modern-age websites, I kept their size as low as possible. I have seen websites putting the crappiest things like calenders and clocks on a web-page which make the page heavy, and probably the last person on earth would make use of a blog to confirm the home time and date. So I have some tips to keep the page’s size low:
- Try not to put too many images on the page as that would make the page very heavy, try to optimize pictures for your blog to keep the quality of the image good with the size decreasing by a larger rate.
- Try not to put every widget you find on the web straight to your blog, think for a second and if it is going to do good to your blog, only then put it on.
- Make sure that banners of sponsors or other advertising are not too heavy, at a maximum 15 Kb per banner.
- If you’re using Adobe Photoshop for images make sure you save all images using ‘Save For Web’ option, as that helps you keep the size of the image low.
- Where possible, try to put text links instead of images.
- If you know CSS, make sure you make good use of it while making containers with dynamic length on your blog’s pages.
- Always try to check the size of your page once in a while and do a check on it’s loading time at Submit Express or Alexa. That will let you know if you website’s loading time is more compared to other websites.
However, I am not forcing you do take these measures on your blog’s pages. Usually the most heavy page is the main page so try to look out for that, as other pages are commonly of a lower size than that. Check if your readers are all using High-speed internet and if so then you can put as much stuff on a page as a normal high-speed internet could open in 5 seconds. The aim of this article is to let you know about potential Low-speed internet users who form a small majority on the Internet even today, and how you do not want to lose traffic.
i was right....
I am Abdulrehman Agha, the guy behind 3arn.Net. I am 16 years old, study in grade 10 and live in Pakistan. I started this blog in the hope of making money on the internet, sharing my computer experiences and proving that despite many barriers, one can make money on the internet.
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im must admit i am a widget and plugin junkie… i will soon have to delete some widgets and plugin from my blog
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I’m thinking of creating a my own theme since the design helps whether the readers will be frequenting you or not.
btw, thanks for the entrecard credits.
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@ Hugo, yea you’d better do that to make sure your page is not too heavy!
@Paul Creating a theme is not as difficult as it seems, and when you do so make sure you make use of my tips ;), I hope you make good use of the ECs.
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Another good way to increase load time is make your pages valid XHTML and CSS. This is not that hard to do and there are free tools available for you to do it. http://rumblinglankan.com/how-to-look-good-in-any-browser-1/
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yapp !! xactly u bloggers are rite even thou i dun own a blog but ive been really pissed off at the applications on facebook …
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Yea, they’re pretty heavy for dial-up users!
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