We don't like it, and we certainly know that web surfers hate to wait for slow loading web pages. So why is this important? Simple, if your web pages don't load fast enough, many web surfers will go away without taking a look at them.

No matter how great your product or service is: if your web site is not fast enough, web surfers won't see it, they'll simply click away to one of your competitors sites.
Fast loading web pages are crucial if you want to sell any product or service on the Internet.

So what can you do? Answer.... There are several things you can do to speed up your site. Of course, as web hosts, we understand the importance of fast and reliable servers. However in addition to hosting your web site on fast servers, there are other things that you can do you can do to improve the loading time of either your or your clients web pages, here's a couple of top tips for you:

    Reduce the number of graphics
A large number of graphics on your web pages can considerably slow down your page. For each graphic on your web page, the web browser has to make another connection to your server. If you cannot reduce the number of graphics on your web page, then try to combine several graphics to a single bigger one. Use the same graphics on your other web pages so that web browsers can load the graphics from the browser cache.

    Specify the dimensions of your graphics
Always try to make sure that you include the height and width dimensions of your graphics in your HTML code. This means that every 'IMG tag' should have both the 'WIDTH' and 'HEIGHT' attributes specified. If web browsers don't have to figure out the dimensions of your graphics, they can already display placeholders and start displaying the text of your web page before loading the graphics from the server, result, your reader 'sees' somthing, hopefully begins reading and you don't loose a vital 'visitor'.

    Make the top of your page interesting
I know it's hard... been there done that and go the T-Shirt ;) But if a web page takes a long time to load, my advice is , try to make sure that the top of the page contains something to capture the readers attention, make it interesting because this is normally the first part tha tvisitors see.

    Divide single large tables
Web pages that use a single large layout table take a long time to render in web browsers. If possible, break up huge tables into several smaller ones.

    Specify the dimensions of your tables
If you specify the 'WIDTH' and 'HEIGHT' attributes for your tables, then web browsers don't have to load the complete table code to calculate the dimensions of the table.

    Double check cell widths
Take a moment to check the individual widths of each table cell. If the total is more than the specified table width, then web browsers will have problems displaying your table. Try to adjust the download times of pages as not everyone has fast connections. In general, your home page should load in 20 seconds on a dial-up connection and the top of your page should be displayed within 5-8 seconds.