Reducing the blog loading time

As mentioned in the original web usability mistakes commentary, users will not give your blog too many seconds to load before they start giving up and moving elsewhere. Even a small extra waiting time can frustrate some users enough that they decide not to become your regular followers. Blogger help gives some easy steps to make sure that you Blogger blog will load as fast as possible, like reducing the number and size of images, hosting full-sized images in different service, putting custom css on top of the page and the number of posts displayed on the blogs main page. By some experimentation, and using Stopwatch (a nice service to measure loading times of web pages), I found out that trimming the posts displayed in Usability Spot main page from 7 posts to 5 posts decreased the loading time from 5-6 seconds to 3-4 seconds. It may not sound like much, but trimming two seconds from average page loading time can make all the difference between a happy user with good user experience and unhappy user with bad user experience. Google also has a good collection of articles and tools about web performance, loading time related issues and generally about making the web faster.