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When a page is loading slow for yourself or a visitor to your website and you know that its not for reasons like you’re uploading a file to somewhere else or your computer needs a restart or you currently have something running on your computer that is causing things to load slow then the next thing you may look at is problems with your web hosting provider, but this may not be the problem and what may be slowing down the page load times on your website is what is actually in place on the page or pages.

Everything from adverts, to widgets and features that rely on the uptime of a server elsewhere, beyond your control can slow down page load times.

Having a very long page, and lots of videos or photos to load can all contribute to page load times too.

Sometimes ive visited a webpage and theres so much going on within the page that not only does it seem to take forever to load but when it does finish i dont know where to look first, its like an advertising and media overload and can have you clicking the back button quickly and not wanting to return to the website at all.

How a website is coded can contribute to page load times, if the code is bloated and outdated then this can lead to slower loading times, combine this with a messy, widget infested page and you have unnecessary waiting times, even for visitors with good fast internet connections.

This will have you losing potential future visits to your website from people who experience the slow loading pages and never want to return again, possibly even putting out warnings to other people that your website crawls at a snails pace and is frustrating to use.

So if you find that your website’s pages load slowly or some of them load slowly, and you have investigated other possible causes and know that you have quite a lot going on when a user visits the page , its highly likely that you need to clean up and optimise the page so that the page load times can be seen as acceptable for the visitors and not cause them any frustration.