Fast web hosting will also give you better results in website promotion and conversions.
Did you know that visitors to your website will give up and leave if it takes more than three seconds to load?
Yes, you read that right, three seconds!
So, if your website takes more than three seconds to load, you will undoubtedly lose sales, conversions, lead signups, and email newsletter subscriptions every day, plus your SEO is also negatively affected.
If you want to rank higher on Google search results page with a slow performing website, good luck to you!
But unfortunately and in light of reality, that won’t happen.
why?
Because Google officially cites both your website speed and fast web hosting server performance as a factor they use in their rankings, Google has published many articles and guides on the importance of website speed performance.
But, in fact, today this is the situation,
Most website owners are willing to spend a lot of money on improving their website speed, but they forget to fix the biggest mistake that slows down almost every website on the internet, which is,
Choosing a web hosting company with fast servers and a high level of performance.
In fact, the problem could be the server company you signed up with.
Choosing fast web hosting is one of the most important speed factors.
Why Fast Web Hosting Is Critical to Your Website Speed
The servers that the hosting provider uses will ultimately determine how fast or slow your website loads in the browser.
You can do basically everything under the sun to try to speed up your website’s loading times, but if your blog or website is hosted on a slow or poorly configured server for speed, all the work you do is doomed to fail.
This happens because when a user visits a web page on your site, the user’s web browser requests each file (CSS, JavaScript, HTML, images, videos) that makes up the web page from your server individually.
And if your website’s server isn’t optimized for speed, it takes a long time, which continues to add to your website’s loading time.
So, if you want the website you worked so hard to build to rank high and secure on Google, you need to choose the fastest website hosting available, and go with a hosting company that optimizes their server stack for fast performance.
So what are the qualities of a fast web host?
A web hosting company that takes speed seriously and optimizes its servers for high performance speeds is not the lot of all hosting companies. In fact, most cheap companies can’t afford to provide the resources for optimal speed for your website.
This can include quick software solutions and technology designed to give your website a boost without any action on your part.
Although there are more than hundreds of different things web hosts can do to optimize and speed up their servers.
Here are some speed features to look for when choosing fast web hosting:
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If a page on your website has 30 files (consisting of HTML, CSS, images, scripts, and so on), your visitor’s browser will download all 30 of those files one by one. This puts a lot of strain on the web server and will ultimately slow down your website.
Not only that, but if your website’s server isn’t optimized to leverage browser-side cached files, then common files like logos and style sheets will be downloaded over and over again every time a visitor navigates to a different page on your site.
There is one thing that fast web hosts have in common, they all optimize their web servers by caching dynamic web pages and serving static copies to prevent server loading.
They also optimize their web servers to leverage browser-side caching.
NGINX server
Most web hosts use the familiar Apache web server software on their servers. Although Apache is used by millions of websites on the Internet, it is not entirely optimized for speed.
In contrast, NGINX is a more modern web server software that is optimized for speed. Web servers using NGINX are suitable for most types of websites and can offer significant speed.
Lite Speed Server
Recently, the use of the Lite Speed server was added – a server installed on Linux servers with full integration with WHM.
So CPANEL users can experience a fast server and fast website browsing.
LiteSpeed is the latest word in Linux servers today and is specifically optimized for WordPress websites.
Data center location
The further geographically the website server is from your computer, the slower the website will load. If most of your website visitors are in Israel, there is no point in hosting your website on a server in the US.
The experience will be unpleasant if you let your surfers from Israel access servers in the distant US.
Most fast web hosts offer dozens of server locations for you to choose from.
Host Center – By default, you will host your website on a server in Israel.
But lets you choose a VPS server in Europe, Asia, and almost anywhere on the globe.
Read more about: vps server
In general, they allow you to choose a location that is closest to where most of your target customers are.
PHP7
Most web hosts almost never update their servers unless absolutely necessary. If you want your website to run fast and smoothly, it’s critical that you use a hosting service that runs the latest version of PHP, which is PHP 7. PHP7 is the latest and most significant release of the PHP language and edition. It comes with significant speed improvements.
HTTP/3
HTTP/3 is the latest version of the HTTP protocol that powers the Internet. HTTP/3 reduces latency, which will affect how long it takes for a website to load. Most modern web browsers (like Firefox and Chrome) support the latest version of HTTP, but to take advantage of it, your server must be configured to use HTTP/3.
CDN
Simply put, a CDN is a network of servers distributed around the world that cache (create a temporary copy) of your websites, serving the copy from the server closest to where your website is being visited.
A very popular CDN service today that offers both free and paid services is CloudFlare .
The article was translated from English to Hebrew – the author of the article
