SiteEdit acceleration - proven solutions

Website loading Speed at SiteEdit is an important criterion of a website’s success. First and foremost the acceleration of a site automatically increases its conversion.
And it directly helps improve the main business objective of a website which is to generate more leads and more sales.

Accelerate SiteEdit and increase conversion up to 30%

Studies show that when a site is accelerated by only 100 milliseconds, the conversion gets increased by 5%. By 2.4% on desktop devices and by 7.1% on mobile devices.

Acceleration by 1 second increases the conversion rate by 20%.

Acceleration by 2 seconds increases conversion by 30%.

Improve position in the TOP by accelerating SiteEdit

Moreover, there is an additional advantage. Speed of SiteEdit is directly related to behavioral factors that adversely affect the ranking of a website in search results.

If you increase the download speed of SiteEdit, this will reduce the probability of failure, visitors will perceive the site more positively, they will spend more time on your website. All of this will be highly estimated by search engines in their score results.

Image optimization is the most simple and effective method to speed up SiteEdit

By optimizing the images it is possible to significantly reduce the total amount of data (in bytes) that is loaded on the page. For example, total page size is reduced to 2 MB from 20 MB. Page capacity of 2 MB will load much faster than the previous version of the page with a volume of 20 MB. This is exactly how SiteEdit download is accelerated.

OptiPic.io - the easiest way to optimize images in SiteEdit

Our service allows you to automate routine and labor-intensive task of compressing and optimizing images. The connection to the website takes literally 2 minutes. And everything works automatically - all you need is to configure compression settings only once.

How to increase the speed of SiteEdit on the front-end side (client acceleration)

In addition to compressing the acceleration images SiteEdit on the front-end side, one can also achieve through the optimization of other components:

• Caching of static files on the server side (images, css, js).
• Combining css.
• Compressing css.
• Joining js.
• Compression js.
• Transferring css and js to the bottom of the html code page.
• Disabling unnecessary scripts and widgets.

Accelerating the download SiteEdit on the back-end (server acceleration)

Server-side acceleration is the goal of minimizing page generation time by the server. This is usually promoted by the following methods:

• Changing the hosting or server to a more powerful one
• Optimization of web server settings (apache, nginx, php-fpm).
• Optimize the settings for mysql (or another sub-site that the site uses).
• Caching database queries.
• Caching queries against third-party APIs.
• Caching of everything that is possible (Composite site technology and the like)
• Refactoring and optimization of php-code logic.

The OptiPic experts know all the subtleties of acceleration and are ready to tackle the complex acceleration of your site. Contact us if you need the maximum acceleration of your site.