10 Ways to Improve Your Site Speed

In this post, I share 10 tactics you can adopt to take back control over the performance of your web pages. Most of these tips can either be implemented manually by your developers or be performed using an automated front-end optimization solution.

Pages Are Huge
According to the HTTP Archive, the average web page is now well over 1 MB in size. That's a massive payload, and images alone account for a full 60 percent of it. In my travels, I regularly see sites that use unoptimized, unnecessarily bulky images. Combatting this bulk is a huge step toward making pages faster.