{"id":4908,"date":"2019-09-24T09:05:14","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T09:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shortpixel.com/blog\/?p=4908"},"modified":"2019-10-23T09:21:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T09:21:28","slug":"how-to-choose-fast-web-hosting-to-make-sure-your-site-loads-quickly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shortpixel.com\/blog\/how-to-choose-fast-web-hosting-to-make-sure-your-site-loads-quickly\/","title":{"rendered":"How to choose fast web hosting to make sure your site loads quickly"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Did you know that visitors who are coming to your site will give up and leave if the website takes longer than 3 seconds to load?<\/strong> Yes, you read that right, that\u2019s three seconds!<\/p>\n

So, if your website loads in more than 3 seconds, there is no doubt that you’ll lose sales, conversions, prospect clients sign ups and email newsletter subscribers every single day, and on top of that your SEO will also be negatively impacted.<\/p>\n

If you want to rank higher in Google\u2019s search result pages with a slow performing website, then good luck to you! Reality is it won\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n

Why is that? Because Google officially recognizes site speed<\/strong> and fast web hosting as factors that they use for rankings, and they have published numerous articles and guides on the importance of a website\u2019s performance<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But here\u2019s the thing.<\/em><\/p>\n

Most website owners are willing to spend top dollars on improving their website\u2019s speed<\/a>, but they forget to fix the biggest blunder that slows down almost every website out there.<\/p>\n

So, what\u2019s that blunder you might ask? It\u2019s the web host you have signed up with. Fast web hosting is the single most important speed factor<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Why fast web hosting is crucial for your website\u2019s speed<\/h2>\n

The servers the hosting service provider uses will ultimately determine how quick or slow your website will load in the browser.<\/p>\n

You could do basically everything under the sun to try to speed up the load times of your site, however if your blog or website is hosted on a server which is slow or poorly configured for speed, then all the work you do is doomed to fail<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This happens because when a user visits a web page on your site, the user’s web browser makes a request for every file (CSS, JavaScript, HTML, images, videos) that makes up the web page from your server individually.<\/p>\n

And if your website\u2019s server is not optimized for speed, then this takes a lot of time, which keeps adding to your website\u2019s load time.<\/p>\n

So, if you want the website you have worked so hard to build to load fast and secure high rankings on Google, then you need to select the fastest web hosting available<\/strong>, and go with a hosting company that optimizes their server stack for fast performance.<\/p>\n

So, what are the qualities of a fast web host?<\/h2>\n

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A web host that takes speed seriously and optimizes their servers for speed will offer a lot of features that most cheap web hosts don\u2019t or can\u2019t.<\/p>\n

This can include proprietary technology and speed software solutions which are designed to give your site a boost without any configuration on your end.<\/p>\n

Although there are more than hundreds of different things that web hosts can do to tweak and optimize their own servers for speed, here are a few speed features<\/strong> that you should look for when choosing a fast web hosting:<\/p>\n

Caching<\/h3>\n

If a page on your website has 30 files (made up of HTML, CSS, images, Scripts and so on.), then your visitor\u2019s browser will download all of these 30 files one by one. This puts a lot of heavy load on the web server and will ultimately slow down your site.<\/p>\n

Not only that, but if your website\u2019s server isn\u2019t optimized to leverage browser-side caching, then common files like logos and style sheets will be downloaded again and again each time the visitor navigates to a different page on your site.<\/p>\n

Fast web hosts have one thing in common, they all optimize their web servers to cache dynamic web pages and serve static copies to prevent server load. They also optimize their web servers to leverage browser side caching.<\/p>\n

NGINX Servers<\/h3>\n

Most web hosts use the well-known Apache web server software on their servers. Although Apache is used by millions of websites on the Internet, it is not fully optimized for speed.<\/p>\n

NGINX, on the other hand, is a more modern web server software that is optimized for speed. Web servers that use NGINX are suitable for most types of websites and can offer a significant boost in speed.<\/p>\n

Data Center Location<\/h3>\n

The further away geographically a site\u2019s server is from your computer\u2019s location, the slower the website will load. If most of your website’s visitors are located in the US, then it doesn\u2019t make any sense to host your website on a server in India.<\/p>\n

Most fast web hosts out there offer dozens of server locations for you to choose from. They allow you to pick a location that will be closest to where most of your target customers are.<\/p>\n

PHP7<\/h3>\n

Most web hosts almost never update their servers unless it\u2019s a necessity. If you would like your site to run fast and smooth, then it is critical that you use a hosting service that is running the latest version of PHP, which is PHP 7. PHP7 is a recent and significant release of the PHP language and the release comes with major speed improvements.<\/p>\n

HTTP\/2<\/h3>\n

HTTP\/2 is the latest version of the HTTP protocol that runs the web. HTTP\/2 reduces latency which will have an impact on how much time it takes to load a website. Most modern web browsers (like Firefox and Chrome) support the latest version of HTTP but to take advantage of it, your server needs to be configured to be able to use HTTP\/2.<\/p>\n

CDN<\/h3>\n

Simply put, a CDN is a network of servers distributed across the globe, which caches (makes a temporary copy of) your websites and then servers the copy from the server physically closest to where your website\u2019s visitor is. If your web host doesn\u2019t offer a CDN, then you might have to spend hundreds of dollars every month just for a CDN service.<\/p>\n

The Fastest Web Hosting Companies For Every Budget<\/h2>\n

SiteGround (Best & Fast Web Hosting \u201cBudget\u201d Option)<\/h3>\n

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I know it sounds like a good idea to go with the cheapest web host you can find if you are just starting out online. But the problem with cheap web hosts is that they are neither reliable nor optimized for speed.<\/p>\n

A good and fast web hosting service like SiteGround<\/strong> will never shut down your website if it gets a traffic spike and all their servers are speed optimized.<\/p>\n

Their servers offer a proprietary caching tool they call SuperCacher,<\/strong> that they claim can boost the load time of your website if it is on WordPress, Joomla, or Drupal.<\/p>\n

Unlike other shared hosts on the market, they don\u2019t compromise on the quality<\/strong> of their services. There are a lot of other web hosts that offer web hosting at similar prices but almost all of them lack the quality support that SiteGround offers.<\/p>\n

Their support department is considered the best in the industry<\/strong> and will answer all your requests within only a few minutes.<\/p>\n

SiteGround\u2019s shared hosting also offers unlimited email hosting for your domains. This means, you can create email addresses on your own domain for free.<\/p>\n

If you are a beginner looking for high quality budget web hosting, then I highly recommend that you go with SiteGround.<\/p>\n

Why SiteGround is fast (a rundown of SiteGround\u2019s \u201cspeed\u201d features<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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