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The layout of your website is very important for it to load fast. Test your sites loading speed with this online stopwatch. Potential visitors can turn away if your site takes too long to load. Learn how to design your site or blog/article.

At the bottom of the page is a stopwatch site where you can check the loading speed of each and every page of your site. By doing so you can re-arrange things until you can get the page to load faster.

We all spend a lot of time designing and creating our website or article. But have you ever thought to yourself how often visitors turn away from your site because it takes too long to load?

There are many reason why a site or article takes longer to load. 

To list a few:

• Pictures (too many or too large, also where on your page makes a difference)
• Javascript website
• Too many video's or songs.
• Too many adverts (third party html codes)
• Flash
• Big files

The list can go on forever.

So how can you make sure your website or article is user friendly and loads fast?

I recommend you try and keep your homepage (the page visitors land on when they type in your website address) as simple and less cluttered as possible. This will allow the site to load fast.

As we all know that majority of the time visitors land on your home page, this makes the homepage the most important of all.

To give you some examples, below are some of the ways visitors end up on your homepage:

• When someone recommends your site to someone, they will give your home page address. For example http://4jokerz.com or just your site name.
• If you advertise, you give your home page address
• If someone types in your website name in a search engine for example Qoolweb (most of the time your home page is at the top).

There are many more reasons as to why people are more likely to land on your home page, and if you use Google analytics, you may even see the proof. Once you have your homepage sorted, you can then try and improve all your other pages.

But generally if visitors are on your homepage then they are a bit more patient and don't mind waiting for other pages to load. Your landing page is the face of your site. This is the first impression, and as we all know, first impression is the last.

I understand that, there a certain things that you have to have on your site, but by having them in your inner pages will mean your visitors are a bit more patient for those pages to load. I'm not saying that you should overload them, but if the visitor is clicking to view other pages, then it means you have what they are looking for. Which is what we all want. But if they are unable to see what you have to offer because they clicked the back button due to your site taking too long to load, then that's one visitor lost.

Use the stopwatch to test your pages, and then you can try and re-arrange things to get your page to load faster. It will help you build and create a perfect site allowing people who have little time to waste when they are browsing to enjoy their experience visiting your site.