Creating faster web pages for your website

Every business today, big or small, has its own website. With people increasingly depending on the internet, it actually becomes necessary for a company to have its own site. Not only does this make the company look more professional, it also becomes easier for prospective clients to get access to necessary company details. But, along with creating a website it should also be kept in mind that most people do not have time to sit while a page takes a long time to load. Information is needed as fast as possible. In order to make your website more efficient, a web development company such as Pixelsmedia can help by creating pages that load quickly and without wasting any valuable time of the customers.
While creating and maintaining a web page or application, it is important to keep in mind that the response time, availability and stability are the factors on which the efficiency of your site will be judged. To enhance the website performance it is better to make sure that all applications are in the best shape before launching the site. A good web development company like Pixelsmedia will help you by using tools that are programmed to create and sustain high performance web based applications.
A common technique used by many sites in the recent years is the AJAX technique. While applying the AJAX technique, the browser does not retrieve information from the server each time the page is refreshed or a new link is opened. Instead, the browser only brings in the required HTML, XML or JavaScript through the server and alters the layout of the existing page. This technique decreases the page loading time to a large extent and yet successfully furnishes new content to the user. However, for sites that reference a large number of objects, the page loading time is spent in requesting separate HTTPs for images, JavaScripts and style sheets. For these sites, AJAX is definitely of some help, but speeding up or deleting the separate HTTP requests are certainly of more help.
Most of the end-user time is spent in downloading the various components of a page. Reducing the components of a page helps in reducing HTTP requests and that in turn speeds up the loading time of a page. To reduce the components of a page, the website layout has to be kept simple which may not look very attractive. However, in the long run, a simpler design is more beneficial. Another way of reducing the components of a page is to combine all files into a single script. CSS Sprites are the most widely used method of combining files.
Apart from these, there are a number of other tools which can speed up the performance levels of your website. Compressing images, minifying the JavaScripts and removing unused CSS are some of the other ways of making your web pages load faster.
For improving the page loading experience of first time users, ask your web designing company to reduce the number of HTTP requests as most first time users will visit the site with an empty cache. Making sure that the pages open fast on the first visit itself will lead to a better user experience. So, keep all these factors in mind while designing faster web pages.