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How to Best Optimize Your Site

You have a site, or want to create one. You want your site to uphold all best practices and standards so all search engines will love it, thus grant it a high location in their results. You want your site to be speedy (for your user's sake and for the search engines'). Before putting down my 2 cents, let me point you to a prior article of mine in which I have recommendations for your site upgrade Here are a list of suggestions accumulated over time. Please note that many will view these suggestions as premature optimizations thus should be implemented only after you have many users etc or else it isn't worth it - they may be right... Hosting Web Environment Don't use Shared hosting ! (Not even a reseller account) - they suck and from time to time there are shameless downtimes !!!, You should at least go for a VPS if not something better, and nowdays they aren't that expensive, several educated recommendations Vultr KnownHost Digital...

How to Best Optimize Your Site

You have a site, or want to create one. You want your site to uphold all best practices and standards so all search engines will love it, thus grant it a high location in their results. You want your site to be speedy (for your user's sake and for the search engines'). Before putting down my 2 cents, let me point you to a prior article of mine in which I have recommendations for your site upgrade Here are a list of suggestions accumulated over time. Please note that many will view these suggestions as premature optimizations thus should be implemented only after you have many users etc or else it isn't worth it - they may be right... Hosting Web Environment Don't use Shared hosting ! (Not even a reseller account) - they suck and from time to time there are shameless downtimes !!!, You should at least go for a VPS if not something better, and nowdays they aren't that expensive, several educated recommendations Vultr KnownHost Digital...

Upgrade your site checklist

You already have a site - now you want to upgrade it, what should you do ? Make it fast - preferably not having any server side code (no php etc) just  plain html Use  Xenu  to see that there are no  broken links Redirect your site to the  www  domain Create a  404  page (or redirect to your homepage) Make it responsive ! Reduce the size of the site components Compress images (many online services) Dust off unused CSS selectors Minify CSS Minify JS Minify Html Instead of minifying the above resources (css, js, html) use Google's minifier which minifies all of the above on the fly (also uses cache) and even joins the CSS & JS together so you will have less server calls. Use  GTMetrix  to  analyze  then implement their suggestions Use  Google Page Speed  to analyze then implement their suggestions Don't stop implementing speed fixes according to the above analyses till you get above 90...