Maintaining a good website speed is one of the most important elements in keeping your visitors stay back on the site and make them visit the site again.

Econsultancy contributor Daniel Monk has shared seven tips to help developers improve the site speed.

Monk says, “With Google research showing that the bounce rate probability of the average user increases by 32% on a page load time of three seconds compared to one, 90% on a page load of five seconds, and 106% of six seconds, it is increasingly important that using the latest technology and tools we aim to get our site speed down to the bare minimum.

Luckily, we’ve done the hard work for you and put together this handy guide giving you the seven most effective ways to fix your site speed.

1. Minify JS/CSS

A massive contributing factor to site speed is the overall size of the build: two of the biggest offenders for large file size can be bulky and unmanaged CSS and JavaScript files.

One of the most important procedures to combat these issues is to ensure all of your loaded CSS and JavaScript files are minified”.

Site speed: Seven ways developers and web managers can improve it

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