How good is good web-page load speed? (3)
Hi everyone! I have BeyondHosting Starter VPS, 1 landing page which is about 634kb in size with all images. Loading time - 494ms.
I tried to reduce size by a lot, decreased image quality so that total page size with images is 200kb, load time 462ms. I thought that would improve web-page speed, but it does NOT.
I noticed however, that html page with not optimized images loads in 0.1s according to pingdom, but with images compressed/optimized html file loads in 0.3s almost always.
1st. Question, why is that?
2nd. What can I do to improve page speed?
3rd. Most important question, does it matter? Is 494ms(0.5s in other words) a good enough speed when I am starting out?
What kind of lander is this? 600+ KB is huge unless it is a very graphic or long lander.
Be aware than Pingdom servers don't emulate real users. Real user load speeds are invariably going to be slower.
Get someone knowledgeable to look through the lander, optimise the code, run images through Kraken, use a CDN, etc.
you could do further minification on your images
- posterize option in photoshop + reduce colors in "save image for web"
- convert png's to jpg where ver possible
this is a good tool to help you further optimize your page: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/
(Google’s PageSpeed Test will Rate you on a 0-100 Scale. You will want the highest number possible
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