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Make sure that you don’t lose out on any potential business due to slow website loading speed.
If your website takes over 3 seconds to load – you will be missing out on business.
For every extra half a second a website takes to load, you will be losing 20% of your website traffic. Can you afford to miss out?
Website visitors will be expecting your website to load in less than 2 seconds. That might seem really quick but that’s the reality of attention spans nowadays. I can get your website loading in that timescale by optimising each of the areas below.
Uncompressed images, incorrectly sized images and incorrect formats of images drastically slows your website down.
Uncompressed fonts make the site more data-heavy than is required.
Too many plugins, using multiple plugins for the same task or large plugins will slow your website down. An example of this is using multiple types of contact forms on your site when only one is required.
Compressions of the website's code can be made, decreasing the data size of the website and therefore allowing faster load speeds.
Caching allows the website's pages to be stored on the browser so that it doesn't need to retrieve them every time a user visits your site.
Plugin updates and database optimisations need to be carried out regularly so that the speed of your website is maintained.
Find out more about the Website Maintenance plans that I offer here.
You can interact with Andrea's website in 1.6 seconds.
The first piece of content takes 1.2 seconds to load.
Andrea's website fully loads in 1.7 seconds.
Statistics from GTmetrix as of 4/8/21.
There are many tools which can help you to test your website load speed.
The stats above are from GTmetrix, this tool allows you to test your website load speed from specific server locations and gives you a full, downloadable report on your website’s speed. I would recommend this tool above all.
You can also use Google’s website speed tool or Dareboost’s website speed tool which allows you to check your website speed specifically on mobile.
I can also check your website load speed free of charge, just email me.
On average, a website takes 3-4 weeks to build with a first draft of the look of the site usually taking 1 week to be produced. We can discuss specific timeframe requirements in our Zoom meetings. The time it takes depends on the content already prepared (text, images and links) and the complexity/size of the site. The more you have ready, the quicker we can show your website to the world!
Costings are tailored to each website, depending on what functions you would like your website to have and how complex you would like it to be. This includes: number of pages, specific functions such as membership sign up or reviews integration, just to name a few, and whether you would like to sell your products and services through the website; known as an ecommerce website. This also includes hosting and domain purchases.
I am happy to discuss in detail the specific costs for what you would like from your website and any specific budget that you may have for your website.
Yes you can! We can work together to create an online shop for your business with an ecommerce website. This will allow you to sell your products online while still having the functionalities of a traditional website.
It sure will! All the websites created are optimised for laptop, mobile and tablet devices. This guarantees a positive user experience across all devices for your website.
You can find examples of websites that I have created on my portfolio page: Website Portfolio.
Within the portfolio, there are Ecommerce websites, WordPress websites as well as a range of industry specific websites such as coaching websites.
Website design and build packages come with 1 year of hosting and domain purchases. We can discuss hosting and domains in more detail in our discovery call.
The process of hosting is purchasing space on a server for your website to live, as if you were purchasing the land to build your home. A domain is the name of your website (louiswebsdale.co.uk) which you need so that people can find your site by searching for your name or your business’ name. If you don’t have a domain, your website and business will look less credible than your competitors who have their own domain.
After the website goes live, the website is all yours and you have full reins with your new site. Your site will start to be crawled by Google so that your website can get noticed. I can teach you the basics of how to edit pages and add more content to the website on a Zoom meeting.
Alternatively, if you would prefer that I make future changes, we can discuss a care package for you to maintain and update the website after it goes live.
Yes, I can work remotely with meetings to discuss your website project on Zoom, Google Meet or over the phone. I offer web design in Essex if you are based locally in Essex (Brentwood) and also to business owners internationally.
All website design work takes place from the UK – I work from Brentwood in Essex. I provide web design in Essex & Brentwood to local business owners and business owners across the globe.
We’d love to hear what you’re hoping to achieve from your project and any questions that you may have.
