How to Design Your Site to Make it Super-fast

Speed is of the essence now more than ever in web design - your site visitors want to have a blazingly fast site experience, and if you don’t deliver, they’ll go somewhere else where they can! That’s just the way it is today, as the trend is heading toward faster and faster sites.

Designers who continually test to make sure their clients have speedy sites will be valued more than those who don’t. So what’s a fast website you ask? How can we quantify this in numerical terms?



Looking at the data, we have several studies that say the following:
47% of users want a site to load in two seconds or less (according to an Akamai study)
E-commerce shoppers want a site to load in about two seconds, but Google aims for less than half a second (according toGoogle Webmasters)
57% of users will abandon a mobile site if it takes longer than three seconds to load (according to a Mobify study)

Clearly, the consensus is that faster is better because it greatly improves the user experience. Here are some fantastic ideas on making your clients’ sites faster!
Make your design minimalistic

It stands to reason that, when you create a bare-bones design, your site simply has fewer elements to load. When there are fewer elements to load, you can meaningfully increase the speed of your site.

It all depends on your philosophy of how you approach site design. You can save yourself a lot of trouble from the very beginning by designing smartly to avoid harmful practices that affect your site’s loading speed.

Designers need to stick to the true principle of minimalism to come up with a site that’s light on its feet and doesn’t take forever to load from one page to the next.