5 Tips To Make Your Blog Load 10x Faster | Blogging Tips

You only have a couple of seconds to make your first impression more awesome with your blog. I agreed that you may have great looking design, stunning imagery, and valuable content but if your blog taking too much time to load then people will surely click on 'back' button on their browser. Even probloggers are also asking How to speed up blogger blog, Why is my blog so slow ? These tips make you a fast page load time, that will increase your overall page views, cause lower bounce rate and if it has been linked to monetize then it will improve your sales numbers from affiliate sites. The statistics say people hates to wait for & leave your page if it�s taking more time to load in first few seconds. So it's most essential to load our blogger blog as fast as possible. Instead of asking How to reduce blog load time? or How to force BlogSpot/WordPress blog to maximum load speed; go ahead and learn how to edit blogger HTML & optimize your blogger template with some advanced tips and tricks that will help you not only to make blogger blog load faster but also with better user experience, ultimately that will help to improve PageRank.

Advanced Tips To Make Blogger Blog Load Faster

While writing articles, you need to check speed test frequently as because visitors are the soul of any successful blog. In page speed point of view & in order to attract your visitors and call more repeated visits you should create a faster, more efficient and improved user experience on your blog template. Having a blog with efficient & responsive design theme is not only sufficient things to consider but page load time make your readers to stick long time on your site. Your readers will love you for it and so will Google. Google also loves pages that load in no time � not only on desktop, but on mobile, too. Page load time is one of Google�s ranking factors. They even provide developers guidelines to help optimize the performance of your blog.

Also read about pingdom tools; Top 10 Websites To Check Page Load Time & website Performance

How do I make this BLOGGER BLOG load faster than ever before?

Before starting to improve page speed, check your website performance & your current loading time on these following speed anlysis tools:

Google�s PageSpeed Insights: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights
Varvy: https://varvy.com/pagespeed/
GTMetrix: http://gtmetrix.com/
Pingdom: http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/
Webpagetest: http://www.webpagetest.org/

Make sure to check your speed at least 3 times on same site listed above and note it down on paper. [Suggest to use Varvy - as demonstrated all here with it]. Now go to followings steps and follow as it is written.

Before starting:

These tips are NOT for novice blog beginners nor mid-range blogger designer. It required somewhat HTML knowledge theoretically. This may cause your template fully damaged and can brick your design. So it is requested you to make your blog design backup before starting as in case you want to revert changes. I am repeating, you must backup your blogger template. Also this trick cause problem with default widgets provided by blogger. If you don�t want to use default widgets and highly depends on third party JavaScript or custom JavaScript, then you can use this method. Expert users always likes to tweaks their blog template to make more fast and functional.

Who can use this trick:

You should be using custom blogger template.
Not using default blogger or G+ comment system.
Not heavily depend up on default widgets provided by blogger.

What you will get in return:

Visitors will have converted in to reader.
Reader will love to read your article longer.
Cause lower bounce rate.
Higher page views.
Google will index your pages as it hates low loading template and so higher page rank for particular page.
IE will load your template smoothly as it crashes often in case of .js and external .css files.
Mobile page views also going to high as loading takes very few seconds.

Remove default Widgets, JavaScript from Blogger

As mentioned above, go to Varvy site, and check your PageSpeed score. Also check CSS Delivery and JavaScript Usage columns. It will show like this before applying tips.

CSS Delivery:

JavaScript Usage:

Here you can see unwanted default .css & .js files that causing problem on page performance & causing load on your blogger template. We will see how to remove those files step by steps.

Remove the unwanted default CSS files

This trick will remove those unwanted blogger CSS files as show in above images. Note that, this trick will cause and change your template layout and all your widgets will show in listed view. Check below image.

Steps to remove default blogger CSS files:

1. Find the tags:

<b:skin><![CDATA[
All your CSS codes
]]></b:skin>

2. Now CUT All your CSS codes' and paste that code as shown below [in notepad file]:

3. And now place that code in your template as:

<b:skin><![CDATA[
]]></b:skin>

<style type='text/css'>
All your CSS codes
</style>

4. Replace following code

<b:skin><![CDATA[

]]></b:skin>

with:

5. Now your new code will looks like below. And make sure it should be there before </head> tag.

Note: If your template already have: <style type="text/css"><!-- /* then no need to do above step no.5.

Now go again and check PageSpeed score on same site. And also check your layout. It should look alike this:

Its just for your use only.. We can scarifies this layout design for getting higher pagespeed score.

Remove Default Blogger widgets.js

If you had seen in above trick default CSS files has been removed but .js files are still present there in the template.

1. Find: </body>

And replace it with following code:

</body>

2. That�s all.

Now check again with same site and check your default .js scripts has been gone with higher PageSpeed score.

Result After Applying Tips:
CSS Delivery:

Advanced Tips To Make Blogger Blog Load Faster2

JavaScript Usage:

These are best ways to reduce blog load time and push blogger default template to load faster. Let us know what performance you getting on your template via comment section below.

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