“What you see, is what you believe”.

This is exactly why the visual elements of your website is extremely important. At Galaxy Weblinks, we understand this and pay great attention to deliver a user friendly custom website design.

Your website’s online existence and prosperity largely depends on the graphics on a website. Adding flash animations, simple graphics, huge images of different formats, long videos, banners, etc. collectively help in enhancing the look of your website. They give your website a very polished and smooth look, thus impressing the users from all corners of the world.

But, these are also the very factors that prolong the loading time of your website. This delay causes great annoyance amongst your website’s visitors, resulting into sheer disinterest. You may have designed your website carefully with good quality unique content. But a slow loading speed may cause your users to look for other websites that are easier to load and quicker to view. Hence, it gets extremely essential to optimize your website while you maintain its unique stylish look. Moreover, Google recently announced the fact that it will now consider the website’s loading time for calculating the page rank of these WebPages. As a result, it is now extremely important to optimize your website’s loading time using all possible methods for an easier and much efficient surfing experience for your users.

Using a few thumb rules, you can make sure your website has a quick load time

The designs at Galaxy Weblinks are essentially composed in a way that they optimize the loading time of your website while maintaining its sleek and stylish appearance. With our Website Speed Optimization service, we help you optimize your CSS scripts, HTML codes, etc. and hence shorten your loading time for quicker viewing.

At Galaxy Weblinks, we offer services that implement all the factors that should be considered for minimizing your website’s loading time. Listed below are these very simple yet critical factors that make your website load faster:

Images and Flash animations

• Images: Images make your website look extremely attractive and realistic. However, they can make your website enormously slow if you add too many pictures. Additionally, the size of the images also matters. Huge pictures take more time to load on websites which can surely annoy the users greatly. You can use the image optimizers that reduce the file size of your .jpg, .png, images. Also, you should prefer using the .gif images over the .jpeg or .png images, as they take more loading time. However, if you need better resolution, you should select the .jpg files for your website.

When inserting the images into your website, it is important to define its height and width. This will help the browser to load the images easily. If not, then the page will take more time and load the images before the content is loaded.

• Flash animations: Adding flash animation to websites gives them a more interactive appearance. But, they can equally slow down your overall loading speed. Hence, it is really essential that you try and avoid them in your website. Instead opt on using programming scripts that give the same interactive look to your website.

Formatting website style

• Avoid Nested tables: Using tables in the design layout is an outdated feature today. However, if needed, you should try avoiding nesting of these tables in your layout. Placing tables within other tables makes the browser take more time in reading the html codes and then working over its layout. As a result, it is a lot better to use CSS for defining your website’s layout.
• Avoid full page tables: In case you are using tables in designing your website, try avoiding the full page tables, i.e. one huge table. Until the entire table is analyzed and read, the browser will not load the page. Hence, for enhacning your website’s loading speed you should prefer using the multiple tables.
• Multiple short pages: Longer pages increase your page loading time, hence it is important that you split them up into smaller multiple pages. This will help your content to appear faster on the webpage, thus helping the users to see your website’s info easily and much faster than the others.
• Use CSS: Using CSS for styling your entire webpage layout is one of the most important tips that should be followed. They improve your loading time as the browsers just have to cache the style of these webpages rather than having to read every single line one after the other. This saves time and hence helps loading your webpage faster.
• External scripts: If you have a particular script appearing on multiple pages of your website, then make use of the external scripts. Simply load the java files from an external source to these pages rather than adding them to every single page. This method surely helps enhancing your loading speed thus providing the users a smooth experience.
• Remove Excess whitespace: Unnecessary space between your codes increase the total size of your webpage which thus increased its loading time. Removing whitespace such as unneeded tabs, extra spaces, etc. will help speed up your website’s loading time.
• Keep your code simple and clean: Browsers love simple and neat looking codes. The main reason being that they are very easy to read and hence take very minimal time to load.

Each of these above mentioned factors have been elaborately explored and experimented by the our web development and designing team before being offered to our customers. You can be sure about their positive effect on your website.