Making your Blogspot blog load faster

As you guys can see, this blogs loads fast. Well still not fast enough for my expectation. Then again, its tweaked to make the blog load faster.

• The most time is taken to load the images in the blog. Obviously, I have a lot of images in my theme in this blog. However the reason why the images load fast is because the images are compressed to make it have a small size allowing downloading of the image faster.
  • I upload images to google pages which compresses any image uploaded. I have notices that the image quality doesn't decrease when uploaded to pages. But the size really smallens. All images in my theme are all uploaded to Google pages to make it load faster.
  • Do not use BMP images : because its size is higher than JPEG,GIF or sometimes PNG. Moreover compressing BMP images makes it quality less. So not good.
  • Delete images in Side bar: There is no need actually, if the content of the blog is good, you will eventually get readers.

• The number of posts on the main page also is a factor determining the load speed of blogspot blog. If all posts written so far are to be posted on the home page, it may take ages to load. Also if a long post is posted on main page also it may happen so for this, I am using a "read the rest of the article" or perhaps a "[...]" sign to load it in another URL.
  • This post may help you setup the read more... But before even thinking of doing as said, BACKUP your blogspot templates.
  • Keep about no more than 10 posts on main page. I keep 05 posts.

• Using less JavaScript in the blog will reduce the blog loading time. Well if its for some outer script other than a widget of blogspot, it will take sometimes minutes to load the script. If you put third party java scripts at bottom, then it will increase load time... well, atleast that's what the blogger help system suggests.

• Removing unwanted sounds and videos :Some blogs takes time to load because of a playlists or some music is set to load in the background. There is no use eh? people will just get bored because that particular song is not their favourite. Thats not the main problem , main problem is that it doubles the time taken to load the blog. If you do, then just remove and see the difference in loading speed.

• Simple Design: A simple design helps a lot to load pages faster. Because a simple one wont have such items as too much javascripts or images. minima template is the most simplest template I have seen in blogsopt templates.

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