How to speed up your slider

When you want to retain the visitors, it is important to have a fast website. In fact, no one is willing to wait for more than a few seconds to load the page. Therefore, Everyone wants their website to be able to load quickly. However, due to the use of wealthy media (images and videos), the rapid loading of the website may be challenging. The loading speed of images and videos is slower than text, so it needs to be optimized for the network.

Smart Slider 3 is a WordPress and Joomla slider plug -in, which is an excellent choice to add rich media to your website. You can use this plug -in to create image slide, video slider, and even the entire login page. In this article, I will show you how to check the speed of the website and how to speed up the slider.

What will slow down the website?

Quick answer: anything. If they are really long, even text will slow down the page speed. In most cases, the problem stems from the wealthy media used. Or it may be the content of the server’s speed that is not fast enough to return the request in time.

Do you want to know how fast your website is?

Use Google PageSpeed \u200b\u200bInsights to measure the speed of your website. It checks your website loading speed and provides you with prompts. Google PageSpeed \u200b\u200bInsights is an incredible tool. For this reason, they have built it into the Chrome browser, and it is called LightHouse. Speed \u200b\u200bindicator

LightHouse has several different indicators to describe your website speed. They are important to understand how to improve your website, so I will use a few words to explain them.

FIRST Contentful Paint (FCP)
• , it measures when the browser presented first. This is the first feedback to users that the page is actually loaded.

Speed \u200b\u200bIndex (SI)

• Display the visible filling speed of the page content.

Maximum content drawing (LCP)

• Detailed information about the largest image or text drawing before the user input.123] Interactive time (TTI)

. This is the last time of Long Task.

• Total blocking time (TBT)

: It measures the total time between FCP and TTI

• Cumulative layout offset (CLS)

Yes A user -centric indicator of visual stability

• The values \u200b\u200bof these indicators will provide you with prompts that can improve the website. Unfortunately, it is not so simple to start where it starts. If you are not familiar with web development, this is especially true.

What is the best way to optimize the website? According to our experience, the best way to optimize your website is to follow the following list:

Use a reliable hosting service provider. The restricted web server may destroy all your achievements.

The latest version of the server software

1. uses the pHP
   1. using cloudflare as the middleware and correctly set the cache strategy
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   3. 123] Always use the latest WordPress

   Test your theme and optimize it in the empty WordPress installation until it reaches 100/100 on the empty page.

2. You can try to optimize the plug -in and see which plug -in can provide the best results for your theme.
3. Prepare your \”link\” title to prompt the browser to pre -loaded content. This may be Style.CSS, font series and each rendering block.
   1. Try to get rid of as many rendering blocking resources as much as possible.
   2. Use only one external font series and ensure that it is a variable font for local custody.
   3. If possible, reduce the use of JavaScript and give up jQuery
   5. Use plug -in optimized for Lighthouse. If it does not destroy its update, you will not be able to repair third -party plugins.

   Prepare your content to get good results. For example, use less images and videos on the first screen. In addition, make sure your images and videos are optimized as much as possible.

How much affects the performance of our website?

You are on the websiteEach plug -in installed on it will eventually affect the performance of your website.

They will reduce your page speed score and slow down your website speed. The only exception is to optimize plug -ins, because their purpose is to increase speed. What you should consider is how much each plug -in affects your website performance. In addition, the plug -in is worthwhile whether the function provided by you.

If you want to buy a plug -in, please ask developers how they optimize the LightHouse plug -in. In addition, you can also use the LightHouse test plug -in (demonstration) website to see how its performance. If the performance of the demonstration site is poor, you can’t expect a good result on your own site . After all, if developers cannot let their own website perform well, how can you do it?

In fact, we are convinced that the content created by Smart Slider 3 is important. It can help you provide your users with amazing and unforgettable website experience. To this end,

We do our best to optimize the Smart Slider 3.5 . As a result, we only used the homepage (except the header and footer) created by the slider to get a 100/100 score. Isn’t this amazing?

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If you use the website speed test, you can check the loading time on the website. Or you can use Chrome or Firefox browser. In this case,

Press F12 → Click the \”Network\” tab and use the hard refresh page.

Here, you will see all the elements of the page, and you can also sort them according to the loading time.

Google Browser Network Tag To create Fast loading and optimized slide, it is important to pay attention to the quality of the image

quality of the image And size