Professional Web Development Company- Cut your uploading time by half using simple techniques

"Downsize your uploading time"

Outsourcing Web DevelopmentToday most leading web development companies in India follow a futuristic approach for website development. Futuristic approach will mean instant page loading from the Internet for the website, the website being developed with the latest technology such as Flex where flash is used but the same is optimized in a way that it is readable by the search engines, website being created with features such as interactivity and other dynamic functionalities that help keep the user interested to the website. The biggest obstacle faced by web development companies is how to tackle a web site and application design in the initial response time of the product. The reason is that today the user is in sync with the broadband and wants the high-resolution, data dense animated website to be downloaded within milliseconds.

A professional web development company can optimize the website in way that the requirement is met to a stage where the loading time is reduced substantially making it possible for the user to see it on a click of the mouse. Lot of case studies has been done to resolute the problem of slow downloading pages and companies have thus come closer to solve this problem by coming up with solutions which if followed can help solve this issue to a great extent. The common approach is to cut down on the file size of everything. In reality, there are many factors which play a part in the initial response time of a web page. Those factors are:

  1. The HTML document file size
  2. The dependencies that is scripts, images, multimedia elements in the documents
  3. Reducing the complexity of the HTML:  It is easy to render simple pages.
  4. The connection speed of the Internet user
  5. The third party server speed as the content has to be pulled and included from them
  6. The DNS server response time for resolving the domains and pointing to the other servers
  7. The speed and responsiveness of the visitor's computer: how many other task the computer is preforming
  8. The server responsiveness

 

A part from the technical factors there are some human factors also which can ensure a quick response web site:

  1. Optimizing all HMTL and dependencies without losing quality, that includes removing of HMTL documents from any comments and superfluous linebreaks. This should be a part of the publication process and to maintaining the site you need to keep those documents in the source.
  2. Using least amount of files. The website development company should collate several scripts into one and add CSS sprite techniques to upload all the images at once.
  3. Use of RSS to catch the third party content from their servers. This help in stopping the DNS server delays and you will be independent of the other server.
  4. You should define the dimensions for images and their container elements. The rending of the pages will be correct and the page size won't be jumping around when the images are loading.

By following some of the easy steps given above you can have your website cut its response time by almost half of what it takes now and thus give your user a better browsing capability and a reason to revisit your site whenever he gets a chance.

For more solutions for web site development you can contact IT Chimes which can help you with professional guidance in designing and developing a site which fulfills all your requirements.


About the Author:

Gaurav Sabharwal, a graduate from Stren School of Business, New York University. Gaurav is the Head of Sales for IT Chimes and is heading the North America region.

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