Site load time is a major factor for page rank. when a person visits your site the browser send the request to the server to downloading resources like images, stylesheets, scripts, Flash, etc. to serve your web page. Browser sent one HTTP request for each element. So load the page faster it is necessary to reduce these components to reduce HTTP request made by browser.

How to reduce HTTP Requests to speed up your site

You can reduce HTTP request by using following steps:

Combined files:

Combine all scripts file into a single script file can reduce the HTTP request. If you have more than one CSS and js files, combine all of them into a single CSS and JS files. In WordPress, installation of various plugins creates various CSS and JS files besides of  your main CSS files. It is very simple to combine all CSS and js files into WordPress with the help of W3total cache plugin.

CSS Sprites:

Every image on your web page count as a Http request. Combining the all of your image into a single image can reduce a lot of HTTP request. CSS Sprites is a method to serve many images from a single master image. browser download the single image and make only one HTTP request instead of downloading many image and many requests. you can learn CSS Sprites implementation by following article

Use CSS instead of images:

whenever possible you should use CSS to show small images like buttons.

Streamline elements on Page:

Streamline the number of elements on your page can reduce many HTTP requests.

Enable Cache: 

you can also improve load times for other pages of your site by enabling Cache. For example, if your sprite image contains elements of other pages, then when visitors go to those other pages, the image is already downloaded and in the cache. So browser won’t need an HTTP request to load those images on other pages either.

Use Cookie free domain for serving static content:

You can reduce the unnecessary traffic sent by the browser to downloading the static resources by serving it from cookie free domain.

So start Optimization from Today. Loading Fast Site is the key to decreasing bounce rate and getting  rank higher.

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