Why Website Speed Optimization Is Important
It is very important to optimize and improve website speed to provide best user experience and to load website very fast on the browser. Major search engine like google or bing consider page speed to be very important to rank website on their search engine.
If the website speed is slow and takes time to load on the browser, then it may effect the user experience and also may hang the browser. Additionally, most of the users nowadays are on mobile with 2g ,3g network so we need page to be very light to load on mobile browser.
Detailed Steps On How We Can Increase A Website Speed
Step 1 : Analyze Current Page Speed Of the website
Run your current website in google chrome website and inspect by opening developer console as shown in image below, Click on light house tab, for more information you can also go through crome referance link how to open lighthouse tab
https://developer.chrome.com/docs/lighthouse/overview
Now Select the option on which device (mobile/desktop) you want to perform performance test and from gatagories choose Performance as shown in image below
Now click on Analyze page speed button shown below
It Will take a while to analyze page speed , below is the refrence what we get after page speed analyze
You can see above score is 77% it is showing yellow. There are three ranges: Green (Good speed), Yellow (Need to improve) and Red (Very low speed)
Now we will go step by step to understand the metrics.