Web Design Blog

A fast website is important for users, so you obviously want your website to load as quickly as possible. For this a good web host is required. Having a web host with loads of diskspace and bandwidth can help your web design.

You should be comparing your website to your competition at all times, and not just in design terms. In google’s result pages you will notice they tell you the size of each webpage (just after the URL below the description in green text). If your size is bigger than all the others it may not matter, what matters is how quickly the webpage loads.

You can see using various tools (like meta tag analysers) how quickly a webpage loads so you can compare your own to others.

Often webmasters cut back on as much coding as possible to speed up their website, which is very good practice and something you should get in the habit of doing. However if there are a few features you really want to have that will slow your website down but actually improve the users experience then you should try and get the best web hosting possible to allow the host to provide the extra uummppphh you require!

For further reading you should check out this post about why cheap hosting can actually cost you money and learn how best to research about host providers.