How to further compress your website…
January 23, 2012 – 4:12 amWhen the idea is to save as much bandwidth and place less burden on the server, a successful strategy is to compress files and thus remove unnecessary codes and tags. This compression driven, load lightening exercise will ensure that you make optimum use of your allotted server space.
To this end, begin by eliminating all optional white spaces and HTML coding gaps. While you do this, it might appear that only few character spaces are being tackled, but even these few extra characters do matter. Especially, if you take the case of HTML codes, there are a lot of unnecessary gaps. There’ll be needless default values and Meta tags, which merely increase the size of a web page and thus lead to slower loading qualms. Additionally of course, bigger the web page, higher is the data traffic reaching your server. If this angle can be taken care of, why pointlessly sacrifice any amounts of bandwidth. There are a lot of tools which can help you achieve the objective. For instance there is the free HTML optimizer, which lets you easily optimize the code. All you need to do is enter the HTML code and the free optimizer shall deal with all excessive white gaps and will reduce the web page. Another option in the category is HTML Tidy. It is a cleaner that can be used to remove blank spaces and tackle tags. Manually or with a software tool, you can erase all excessive white spaces and that shall in no way affect your web page’s display.
Next step is compressing the CSS files. Again, like HTML code, CSS files too can be unnecessarily bulky. Blame it once again on the spaces and breaks. A little effort and the tightened CSS files will make quite a difference. In fact in some cases, the CSS files are in a terrible mess and then for the sake of savings, the CSS file compression exercise really is essential. Additionally, of course, with these tips, viewer experience is enhanced and thus more visitors feel like returning to your website for an improved web experience. CSS compressor programs are many and they can help accomplish the task. PHP techniques can also be used. CSS Tidy too is available. Whichever, tool you deploy, just make sure that your CSS files are cleaner and optimized.
