The performance issue is the most common issue faced by owners of websites. A website without a good loading speed can affect user experience and cause loading trouble in low internet connections. The improvement of the website speed is also important, along with developing a good interface.The page speed can be improved easily by concentrating on some points when you develop a website interface or when you purchase a theme for your website. In today's article, we are going to share with you some methods that help you speed up your Blogger website without any paid hosting.
If you follow the methods given here carefully, then you can easily improve your Blogger blog performance without the help of any paid service. So, without wasting much time,e let's check what all methods we can improve our Blogger blog speed.
How to Speed Up Your Blogger Website?
Method 1: Avoid using heavy templates or unnecessary third-party libraries
Using too many third-party libraries or heavy templates can cause performance issues in your website. Third-party libraries like Bootstrap, jQuery, etc, are useful, but including them when we are not using them fully can cause low speed in your website.
We always recommend that you use only the CSS and JavaScript that are actually needed for your website and always choose fast-loading templates.
What are third-party libraries?
Third-party libraries are pre-written CSS or JS files by other developers to add additional features or design to a website. Examples for third-party libraries are jQuery, Bootstrap, FontAwesome, etc. These third-party libraries make the development of the page easier and less time-consuming.
What do you mean by heavy templates?
The templates that rely on their design or work with the help of third-party libraries are called heavy templates. This type of template has a low loading speed.
How to identify fast-loading templates?
You can identify fast-loading templates by using any page speed checker website. The most commonly used websites for checking page speed are PageSpeed Insights and GTmetrics.
Method 2: Always try to use minified CSS and JavaScript
Always try to minify your website CSS and JavaScript by using any CSS Minifier & JavaScript Minifier websites. Minifying the CSS and JavaScript help you to improve your page speed because when CSS and JavaScript are smaller, the browser can easily download and process them faster.
What do you mean by minifying?
Minifying is the process that makes CSS or JavaScript smaller than before. Minified CSS or JavaScript is a little harder to read, but it helps to improve website speed. The commonly used websites for minifying JavaScript and CSS are minifier.org, Toptal JavaScript Minifier, and Toptal CSS Minifier.
We recommend that you take a backup of CSS and JavaScript before minifying it because sometimes minification can also damage the code.
Method 3: Disable Blogger CSS (Only for Custom Templates)
The newest modern custom Blogger templates don't need Blogger CSS; by disabling it, you can improve your website's speed. You can easily disable it by following the steps given below:
- Go to your Blogger dashboard
- Click on the Theme option
- Click on the drop-down icon near orange colored Customize button
- Click Edit HTML
- Add
b:css='false'in the first HTML tag
If this change is causing any issues with your website, then you can turn it back on by removing it. b:css='false'
What is Blogger CSS
Blogger CSS means the CSS that is automatically added by the Blogger platform to style the widgets, comments and other built-in elements. This helps the Blogger theme to work properly without any custom style CSS.
We recommend this method only if you are using a template outside the Blogger, which means the template should be fully custom made have its own CSS for every element.
Method 4: Optimise images before uploading
It is recommended to use compressed and WebP format images instead of high-quality PNG images because high-quality images can affect the performance of websites. You can convert images to WebP using any online WebP converter. The commonly used online webp converter websites are CloudConvert and FreeConvert.
What is WebP?
WebP is a modern image format developed by Google. It has a smaller file size when compared to other image formats. It uses less data when compared to other image formats. It is the most recommended image file format for websites.
Why does image size matter?
Large image file size can affect your website performance, which is why we use WebP format images. It reduces file size and improves performance.
Method 5: Use lightweight fonts
Fonts have an important role in websites, but using more fonts or heavier fonts can affect the performance of the website. It is recommended to use lightweight fonts and limit the number of font families. Using the system default font or a single font can help you avoid speed reduction of your website.
What are fonts?
Fonts are the styles applied to texts on the website. They control how letters, symbols, and numbers appear on the website. Font has an important role in website design and its readability.
How to find lightweight fonts?
It was easy to find lightweight fonts; the lightweight fonts have only a small file size, and they have only a few weights, like they only have regular and bold instead of having more weights like italic, thin, light, medium, etc.
Method 6: Use the async attribute in the script tag
JavaScript can also affect page loading speed if the script loads synchronously. This means the browser waits for the loading script before the page completely loads. By using the async attribute, scripts can load without blocking page rendering, which helps to improve page loading speed.
Example Usage
To use it, you just need to add
async='async' In the open script tag example given below:<script src='example.js' async='async'/>What is async?
async is an attribute used in a script tag to load scripts without blocking page rendering. When the script is loaded asynchronously, the browser continues loading the page even while the script is downloading. This means page content appears faster to website visitors.
Conclusion
To speed up a Blogger website doesn't always require paid hosting. It was fixable if you focused on the above-mentioned methods. By using lightweight templates, minified CSS & JavaScript, optimising images, lightweight fonts and loading scripts asynchronously help you to improve your Blogger blog performance.
Every website template doesn't have all this optimisation; some website templates have some of this optimisation, and some website templates cannot support some of this optimisation, so always try to choose the right optimisation for your website.
By following these methods, you can create a fast-loading Blogger website that provides a better user experience.