Why is my site loading so slowly?

There are a number of factors that can influence the speed at which your site loads. According to the site Net Mechanic page load time depends on:

• The size of your HTML file and any frames it references.
• The number and size of your images.
• Use of HEIGHT and WIDTH attributes with your IMG and TABLE tags.
• The number of servers that must be contacted to download files and images.
• The speed of the user's modem.

We will elaborate a bit more on a number of these reasons and present you with a number of resources that will allow you to determine the causes of the slow down of your site and remedies on how to improve your site's loading speed.

We can organize the causes in three major groups:

*most often cause by network and communication related causes

1. problems caused by proxy gateways
2. site design and coding
   • image files too large and not optimized for the net
   • unoptimized or faulty html coding
   • external banner / image links
3. other possible causes

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