Why your site is slow
Jan 30
As a web developer I want my projects to accomplish 2 things. I want to exceed the expectations of my client and provide the user with a good experience. A lot of developers get into the mindset of "if it works, I'm done". They don't take the opportunity to make sure the users are going to have a good experience. I don't blame them. It's tedious to test compatibility and boring to make sure your error catching gracefully handles issues that may arise. But, ironically, a slow load time can quickly ruin a users website experience. I break load-time into 2 categories: real and perceived. Real load-time is the actual time it takes all elements and scripting to be 100% loaded and ready. Perceived load-time is the wait-time a user experiences before they can start using a site. A "fast" site optimizes for the former, while exploiting the latter. So, here are 3 things techniques I use to affect page load-time without affecting my coding.
