{"id":861,"date":"2019-05-22T13:31:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T13:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hitsteps.com\/blog\/?p=861"},"modified":"2019-05-22T13:31:10","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T13:31:10","slug":"2-steps-to-better-website-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hitsteps.com\/blog\/2-steps-to-better-website-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Steps to Better Website Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a world where updates are instant, delivery takes place on the same day, and customer service is only ever a few clicks away, visitors to your website will not stand for it being slow. If your pages take more than&nbsp;a few&nbsp;seconds to load or if your media takes too long to buffer, they\u2019ll leave your site without a second thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If your site\u2019s&nbsp;visitors are looking for a service specifically in your market, when they leave your website,&nbsp;they\u2019ll head straight to your competitors. Not only could you miss out on clicks in this instance, but you could also miss out on potential customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To ensure that your business\u2019s days of missing out are behind it, you&nbsp;have to&nbsp;resolve to better your website performance. To see how this can be achieved, read on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Train your employees<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;internet moves forward at a frantic pace, and&nbsp;if your employees&nbsp;can\u2019t&nbsp;keep up with it, neither can your company website. It\u2019s essential then that you invest in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.betterteam.com\/training-new-employees\">staff training<\/a>&nbsp;regularly. By doing so, tech fluency around your office will become the norm, the day\u2019s top trends will continuously be adhered to, and most importantly, your website\u2019s performance will remain optimized no matter who is tasked with working on it and fixing its faults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One specific type of training that you should certainly consider investing in is a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.changeboard.com\/article-details\/15322\/how-can-businesses-develop-a-top-grad-scheme-to-attract-the-best-graduate-talent-\/\">graduate scheme<\/a>. By offering internships to the tech workers of tomorrow, you\u2019ll ready your business\u2019s website for the future in the best way possible. This is because&nbsp;this type&nbsp;of employee will have grown up with&nbsp;internet technology at the forefront of everything they\u2019ve been exposed to. This kind of knowledge will prove unrivaled as you seek to better your website performance going forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Align yourself with external experts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to&nbsp;ensuring your internal team has&nbsp;the tools they need to better your website performance, you\u2019re going to need&nbsp;a number of&nbsp;external experts by your side as well. Without this kind of assistance, you\u2019ll find it hard to devote the&nbsp;necessary&nbsp;time, effort, and resources to your website optimization, especially when you have so many other areas of your business to be focusing on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this instance, there are two experts\u00a0in particular that\u00a0you should consider turning to:1.\u00a0A website auditing service, such as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/digitalmarkgroup.com\/search-engine-marketing\/\">DMG<\/a>\u2014by having an audit conducted\u00a0for\u00a0your website, you will be able to see where it\u2019s failing, why it\u2019s so unpopular, and why it\u2019s languishing so far down in Google\u2019s search rankings2.\u00a0A website monitoring service, such as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pingmeter.com\/\">Pingmeter<\/a>\u2014this kind of service will keep a constant eye on your website to ensure that it remains live at all times, notifying you instantly should it deem something to have gone wrong with your site\u2019s performance<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to better your website performance, then your employees need to become well-versed&nbsp;in&nbsp;fixing faults as and when they happen,&nbsp;and you need strong external forces backing you up. Taking the above advice and putting it into practice, then, is essential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a world where updates are instant, delivery takes place on the same day, and customer service is only ever a few clicks away, visitors to your website will not stand for it being slow. If your pages take more than&nbsp;a few&nbsp;seconds to load or if your media takes too long to buffer, they\u2019ll leave &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hitsteps.com\/blog\/2-steps-to-better-website-performance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2 Steps to Better Website Performance<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hitsteps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hitsteps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hitsteps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hitsteps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hitsteps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hitsteps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":864,"href":"https:\/\/www.hitsteps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions\/864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hitsteps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hitsteps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hitsteps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}