10 methods to speed up your website.

Do you get a lot of traffic to your WordPress website but find that your bounce rate is high and conversions are low?

If so, it may be due to the fact that you need to speed up your website. If your web pages take more than a couple of seconds to load, users are likely to click off your website and access the content they need from one of your competitors instead.

Your WordPress websites page loading time will have a significant impact on its overall user experience. If the web page loading time is slow it will result in a poor user experience and may put off people from using your website. Slow page loading time can also negatively impact your websites search rankings, which can lead to a loss in traffic. If you think this may be happening to you, you will need to make changes and improvements to speed up your website.

7 things you need to know about Responsive Web Design.

As a webmaster looking to improve your website, it is likely that you have been informed numerous times that you need to have a responsive web design. Whilst this is true, it can be difficult to justify the price of a responsive web design, when you don’t really know what it means.

1. More than just mobile web design

Whereas a web design for mobiles is limited to viewing on smartphones, a responsive web design is suitable for all devices. This means that the same website can be viewed on desktop computers, laptops, tablets and smartphones, as well as any other devices that come out like smart glasses and watches! Responsive web design is both intelligent and flexible. Using clever CSS coding they can determine the device they are being viewed on so they can adjust and adapt for optimal viewing.

WHEN WRITING WEBSITE COPY, LESS IS MORE

The fact that our attention span is shrinking due to social media has been reported in the news quite often over the last few years and it’s probably true. It’s apparently caused by our constant use of social media and our habit of absorbing information in sound bites. It means less of us have the patience to read longer text and as well as book sales suffering, we also suffer the loss of the pleasure of reading great works of literature. But from a website point of view it means that short attention span has to be taken into consideration: website copy, especially the first thing a visitor sees, needs to be short, direct and interesting from the start.