Want to lose the interest of a new visitor to your blog?
Ensure that it takes more than a few seconds for your blogsite to load.
Not only will you lose their attention, but your site will give the impression that it is not user-friendly.
Both are the kiss of death.
The challenge is that many of the offenders have no idea that their site is taking so long to load.
By regularly visiting their own blog, Temporary Internet Files get collected onto the site owner’s computer, facilitating the speedy display of their site, keeping them oblivious to the ugly reality.
A new visitor to your site has no 'build up' of temporary files, so their first experience entails loading all the files on your site upon visit. If you have any of the following challenges, your site may be guilty of turning off new visitors.
1. Image Size.
It's not the visual size of the image, it's the file size.
An image that appears no larger than a postage stamp can actually be a 5MB image that will take several seconds to load on even the fastest of internet connections.
The Solution:
Avoid resizing images inside your blog article editor.
This is where challenge happens. Shrinking an image in the blog editor does not make the file size any smaller.
Resize before uploading them to the blog article editor using an image editor.
My preferred free image editors:
Irfan View – Downloadable program
Picasa – Downloadable program
Pixer – Online
Picnik – Online (registration required)
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