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🚀 Fast, Faster, Fastest: How to Make Your Pages Load Lightning-Quick
No one likes a slow website. Whether it’s a potential customer, a returning user, or a search engine bot, speed matters. Page load time plays a massive role in how users experience your site and how search engines rank it. If your site takes too long to load, people bounce, engagement drops, and your SEO takes a hit.
In this post, we’ll go over practical and effective ways to speed things up. I’ve grouped the techniques into three buckets: network optimisations, resource optimisations, and server optimisations (we’ll save the last for the next post). Each section walks through real examples, useful tools, and smart strategies to get your pages loading faster.
🌐 Network Optimisations
This is often the quickest win. Network optimisations improve how data travels from your server to the user’s device, without requiring big changes to your app or UI.
Use a Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Think of a CDN as a shortcut to your content. Instead of every user reaching out to your main server (which might be halfway across the globe), they get the content from a server that’s closer to them.
Why it helps: Less distance = faster delivery.
