After my last post about minimizing RTT’s you may have a bit of a headache, and feel it’s not worth the trouble to make your site load any faster. Well this post lists some easy methods suggested by Google to speed up your website, and you may have already tried a few of them.

Uploading

Got a fast internet connection? Most people do nowadays, that is, for downloading. For uploading though, that bandwidth speed you or your users may have, is probably less than a fifth of the download speed. When a user visits a website, it’s not a one way trip. Continue reading »

 

It’s time for another post to help your site load faster. My last post, Suggested Methods by Google for Speeding Up Your Website, finished off with caching. The next step to take for speeding up your website is to minimize round trip times, RTT.

RTT refers to all the requests required when a user accesses your website. This is not a size of file issue, but a number of requests issue. For example, my home page currently has 24 resources that need to be requested and transferred. The less the site has, the faster the transfer. Continue reading »