Tips to make your blog faster
Blog page load time also plays an important role in the success or failure of any blog. Visitor and search engines will take less interest,if your blog is too slow. Almost all new bloggers face this issue. I started blogging just one year ago and I also faced this issue as well so I made a research and today providing full information about each of these 10 methods which allows you to reduce your blog page load time to a larger extent.so lets check.
How to check the Page Load time of your Blogger Blog?
It is very simple. You can do this by using verious website but I would prefer the Google’s Product i.e Google PageSpeed Insights service. To use it just visit- https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights. You will see a blank textebox. Just enter your blog’s url and click on Analyze button. The screenshot of the same is shown below: 
It will show you Page Speed Score. If your blog has more than 90% score then there is no need to worry otherwise you should follow the below given steps to reduce your blog page load time.
Top 10 killer tips to reduce your blog page load time in blogger
- Avoid Using Images as Background - Background images are one of the major cause of slowing down your blog . It slows down your blog up to 50% which is really very harmful. If you are already using it then remove it as soon as possible. To remove background images from your template, move to edit template and find for a code which looks something like- body { background: #7AA1C3 url(http://xyz.com/abc.jpg); . You should better try to find the body Tag first.After that simply remove the image path which is shown in green part.
- Don’t Use too many Ads – Placing of Excessive Ads in your blog increases blog page load time and thus makes it slow. Blogger wants to earn maximum from their blog so place a number of Ads. Don’t do that. Just use limited Ads.
- Don’t Show more than 5 Posts in your Homepage – It is always recommended to show only 4 to 5 posts in your homepage. Showing of more Posts in your homepage will increase the page load time and thus will slow down your blog.
- Use Images which you have uploaded in your Blog – While making a post, sometimes bloggers use the url of images placed on other sites.It has two disadvantages-firstly you will loose your images when the same image will be deleted from its destination. secondly,If you are using customized template then also you should use the images which are uploaded on your blog. Generally these kind of templates uses the images which are stored at tinypic and storebucket due to which a blog which is using the same template takes a lot of time to load.
- Never use too many Widgets/Gadgets – You should avoid using so many gadgets in your blog. Sometimes they use java script files hosted on other sites due to which page load time can increase further. So always use only essential Gadgets/Widgets.
- Prefer to use PNG or GIF Images -You should use either PNG or GIF images in your blog as these format files are already compressed and thus are smaller in size. PNG is much more better than GIF.
- Host Javascript files at Blogger rather than any other external site – If you are using the widget/Gadget from other sites, you will find that they host their Javascript file at other place which increases the page load time.Just follow the link of their javascript file and copy the javascript code from there.After that simply open your template i.e Edit Template and Paste the copied Javascript code into the following place above <head> tag .You will find the source of hosted javascript by searching for <script type=’text/javascript’> in your widget Gadget code.
<script type=’text/javascript’>//<![CDATA[Paste the copied JavaScript Code Here//]]></script>
- Use Read More>>(summarize) Links rather than showing complete Post in Homepage -You should always use Read More>> link in your homepage as it reduces your page load time. Let us suppose that you have configured your setting to show 5 posts in homepage and all of your post are longer then it will obviously take more time.
- Avoid Placing of Links of Several Blog Directories - Most of the bloggers place links of different blog directories in their homepage to get traffic.These kind of links comes in a form of small images.They do so in a hope to get backlinks from them but it is just useless. It not only increases your page load time but also search engine will lose trust on your blog.Also instead of using their small images, use the small meta tag.If you want to place such link than my recommendations are only blogcatalog and mybloglog.
- Always Prefer to Use Smaller images rather than Larger one - Larger images can increase your page Load time so always prefer to use smaller images. Decrease the size of image,if you find it larger.
If your blog is still slow even after applying the above methods then I will suggest you to use compression tool to compress your images and Javascript on your blog.
Top 10 killer tips to reduce your blog page load time in blogger