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Why is your website slow? Common causes and how to fix them

"Why is my website so slow?" That is one of the questions you don't want to ask yourself ever! Do you know that your website loses more than 10% of visitors with every second of loading time? 🤯

Why is a website's loading speed important?

  • It is essential to realize that a slow website can lead to users losing patience and leaving.
  • Besides losing a significant amount of audience, a slow website can build a wrong impression about your brand.
  • The reduced loading speed will affect your rankings.

As you can page speed has a huge impact on conversions, so before you launch your site live, you need to get some knowledge to power your site.

Which metrics to follow for better website performance?
Knowing what metrics to pay attention to before measuring your website speed is crucial to having a fast website. The following are some of them:

  • TTFB (Time to First Byte) measures the amount of time it takes for a user's device to receive its first byte from the server.
  • Page load time: This is the amount of time it takes for the entire page to load.
  • Round Trip Time (RTT) is the time it takes for data to travel from one place to another.
  • Page size: This metric measures how large your page is.

Why is your website running slow

  • You are not using CDN
  • You didn't think about caching problems
  • You have unoptimized images
  • You have a lot of flash content
  • You have a lot of ADS
  • Too many RTTs
  • Hosting service issue
  • You are not using SSG!
  • You are not using Headless CMS.
  • Want to see solutions? ➡️https://thebcms.com/blog/why-is-your-website-slow-and-how-to-fix

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The best way to debug slow web pages

Tools like Page Speed Insights and Google Lighthouse are great for providing advice for front end performance issues. But what these tools can’t do, is evaluate performance across your entire stack of distributed services and applications.

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