9 tips to speedup blogger loading time

Have u ever wanted to speedup the loading time of your blog. If yes, you are going to right place. If your blog @ blogger.com takes more than 30s to load the homepage, you will lose a lot of audience. So how to speedup the loading time of your blog? Here are steps to archive that purpose...

Make sure you backup your template before process any further.

1. Reduce unnecessary characters in your template. They are include:

• White space - This step may dramatically reduce your template size.
• The last semi-colon in your css (Cascading Style Sheets) of each style. Normally, before the } character.
• Comments - This will make your template file smaller a lots.

2. META tag - try to reduce unnecessary meta tags, just keep what you want. Most important are just Keyword and Description meta tag. Try not to use meta tag like Author or Copyright, etc... they're useless here.

3. CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)

• Combine css in to bigger one - but not too big.
• Use css where possible instead of tables.
• Compress your css file.
• Use master stylesheet.
• Load stylesheet files externally.

4. JS (Javascript)

• Compress your javascript code.
• Combine several js files in to a bigger one.
• Try to use method writen here to reduce .js loading time.

5. IMAGE

• Try not to use images unless you have to. I saw some people use image for straight-horizontal line :(
• Compress your image files.

6. Tracking scripts - Move all of them to bottom of your template (before close BODY tag). E.g: Google Analytics, MyBlogLog, etc. This step will let your page render first, then all tracking scripts later. Normally, we put the scripts in to HEAD tag, then the browser need time to load it first before load our pages.

7. Using b:if cond='condition' to reduce amount of code need to load. Some piece of code just need for specific page type. (E.g: item page)

8. Use AJAX hacks. E.g: Google ajax search, Ajax labels cloud, Ajax labels, etc.

9. If you can, use classic template. It's loaded a lots faster than the newer one.


Just some tips i pointed here. Tell me if i was wrong, and let me know if i miss some points. Enjoy.