Not only you need a good host, removing unnecessary scripts and widgets and optimizing your images and template is also important. So you need to optimize your blogs for the best performance. Let us have a quick look how to optimize your blogs to load faster.
Optimize your Stylesheets.
W3 HTML specification clearly states that stylesheets should be put in the HEAD section. Stylesheets in the HEAD section allow the page to render fast, properly and progressively. Blogger’s who care about performance want a page to load faster, especially important for blogs with lots of content and widgets. This helps visitor with slower Internet connections, who is waiting for the page to load, to view your blog properly. This improves the overall user experience.
Compress CSS.
Remove unnecessary codes from CSS to reduce its size and improve loading times. Compress CSS, that is, remove unneeded white space, characters space, newline, and tab. This improves response time performance because the size of the downloaded file is reduced. There are many online CSS Compressor tools, just Google it. It is best if the components are under 25K.
Optimize Images.
Compress your images. You can do it manually or you can also can Google for online Image Optimizers. Scale you images properly and use proper ‘alt’ attribute, for example, if your blog post image is ‘125x125px’ then use <img alt="Name of image" height="125" scr="/image.png" width="125" />.
JavaScript at Bottom.
Put JavaScript in BODY Section. For example, if you are using Google Analytics, then put the analytic code before </body>. In some situation, some scripts are used to style your blog. For example, you are using jQuery Slide Show. So you need jQuery library. Then move the script below in the HEAD section, just above </head>.
Use an External JavaScript.
JavaScript that are not external may reduce the number of DNS lookups and HTTP requests but also increases the size of the Blog and Blogger Template. While, if the JavaScript are used as external files then these are cached by the browsers which not only reduces the size of the template but also reduces the HTTP requests after the page of your blog is loaded for first time.
Reduce DNS Lookups and HTTP requests.
Remove unnecessary badges, images, files that are from different and unique hostnames. It takes some time (milliseconds) for DNS to look for the IP addresses for the given hostnames. The browser is unable to download anything from the hosts until the DNS lookup is completed. Reducing the number of hostnames reduces the number of DNS lookups and HTTP requests. This helps the blog to load faster.
This blog optimization list to load your blog faster is not only for blogger platform, but also for Wordpress and other providers who have a similar features.
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