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We all should want faster page load speeds. Slow load speeds influence visitor user experience - and ultimately, for business, it may lower website conversions, especially on mobile devices. Slower than expected page load speeds can also have other effects you might not have considered, like your Google rankings.
There are several variables that can affect the page load speeds of your Customer Self Service eCommerce Platform website. Some of the most important are:
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We will go through them one by one and suggests some actions. Some of these are in your control. Others may require technical analysis and expertise.
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CSS and
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JavaScript use
If you checked your web page, at the top of the list of culprits may have been something like 'Eliminate Render-blocking Resources'.
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For your website, render-blocking resources will typically refer to uses of css CSS but especially JavaScript. Such coding is part and parcel of how web page content is created. Web page styling and functionality would not be the same without them. Especially dynamic content. However, bear in mind that your visitors' browsers have to process each css CSS and JavaScript request before a page will load fully. When a browser normally finds css CSS or JavaScript <script> tags, it will stop loading HTML until the scripts have been loaded and executed (or just executed). This slows down the overall page render time.
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What else you can do:
- Book a time to discuss what consultation with Commerce Vision's Professional Services to discuss what we can do to help.
- We can also implement our features/offer services we have specially created features that help to minimise target JavaScript render-blocking resources on your web pages so that they appear more quickly to users:.
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- Our JavaScript Defer
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- feature/service defers JavaScript loading and execution (including inline script blocks)
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- until the HTML has been parsed on a page.
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- The solution uses our expertise to defer in an orderly way (For versions 4.17+
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- Our JavaScript Dependency feature/service reduces JavaScript execution to only those a particular page needs. The solution
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- automatically works out what
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- JavaScript files are necessary, bundles them and provides a single link to the browser to
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- lower resource use. (For version 4.25+
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Content Creation
Think about the content on your pages, especially high traffic pages. TIP - The home page should be priority since it is usually the first page for visitors.
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