Tips To Reduce Blogger Blog Load Time:

Tips To Reduce Blog Load Time

1# Avoid JavaScript

JavaScript makes page loading speed slow. Try to remove unnecessary JavaScript codes from your blog. Don’t link to external sites for storing your JavaScript codes whilst you can save them inside your blogger blog. You can save your all JavaScript codes in your template above </head> by using the code below.

<script type=’text/javascript’>
//<![CDATA[
Paste Your JavaScript Code Here//]]>
</script>

Just replace the bolded text with the JavaScript code you want to store in your template.

2# Widgets and Social Media Buttons

Widgets and social media buttons are really very important but use of too many social media buttons and unnecessary widgets can slower your blog. Try to remove widgets that are not really necessary for your blog and use social media buttons wisely.

3# Give Proper Dimensions To Images

Always give proper height and width to the images you are using in your posts, because it help the browsers to load the image quickly. To give height and width attribute to your images use below code.

<img width=”” height=”” src=”URL Of Image” /> 

4# Don’t Use An Image As A Background

If your blog template have image as a background, then remove it. A background image is responsible for slow loading speed. Always use background colors not an image. To remove background image simply search below code and remove it from your template.

body { background: #B3B3B3 url(http://abc.com/background-image.jpg);

The code will surely be different in your template. To remove background image, search this type of code in your template and simply remove the text which looks like the bold text.

5# Reduce Advertisement On Blog

Advertisement banners are coded with JavaScript. As I already told you in tip no 1 that too much use of JavaScript make blog loading speed slower. So please use limited advertisements on your blog.

6# Limited Number Of Posts At Home Page

Try to show only 4-5 posts at your Homepage because if you use too many posts to show at Homepage then it will take more time to load. Fast loading Homepage keeps your visitors happy and they will stay at your blog for long time. If you don’t know how to set number of posts on Homepage then see the screenshot below.

7# Always Use Quality Blogger Templates

Most of newbie bloggers do this mistake. They upload any template that attracts them. There are lot of templates available on the internet but most of them are improper scripted. Using of those templates make job tough for search engine spiders to crawl your blog. Choose theme wisely for your blog which should be designed by professionals.

8# Use Read More Link To Summarize Blog Posts At Homepage

Always summarize your blog post for Homepage by using a read more link. It has two benefits:

• Improve Blog Load Time.
• Increase Page views and Reduce Bounce Rate.

9# Eliminate External Links

Eliminate all unnecessary external links from your blog. One common example for this is using stat counters. You can use Google Analytics instead of stat counter widgets to check your website traffic status.

How To Check Blog Load Speed?

There are lot of tools available on the internet which can be used to check your blog load time. Here I am listing two famous tools.

• Google PageSpeed Insight
• Pingdom Tools

Just open the link and type your blog address like this.

http://www.your-blog-address.blogspot.com/

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How to Add Countdown Clock Widget For Blogger?

If you are organizing an event and want to display days left for that event to your audience or blog readers, then you must need a countdown clock widget that runs backwards to show remaining days for the event you are going to organize. Today, in this tutorial I’ll tell you how you can add a countdown clock widget to your website or blog. This gadget will work fine for websites as well as blogs. You can put it anywhere you want. There is no need for any specialization. You just need to follow some simple steps to add this stylish widget to your blog. So, let start today’s tutorial.

Adding Countdown Clock Widget to Blogger

We will use a website that provides us three options like Website Countdown Widgets, Countdown Web Pages, and Countdown Clock Devices. You can use anyone for your site. In this tutorial we will discuss about Website Countdown Widget. So, follow below steps to start the work.

1. First go to CountingDownTo.com.
2. Now you will see a very simple form with three fields Event name, Event date, Event Timezone. Fill all the three fields.


3. There are some advance options available that you can use to customize your gadget’s look and feel.
   

• Repeat: How frequently you want to repeat the countdown count.
• Time of day: Enter the exact time of the event. By entering the time, gadget will show more accurate time left.
• Milliseconds: Check this box if you want to show milliseconds in your gadget.
• Title and Date: Check this box if you don’t want to show event name and date at the top of the countdown clock.
• After that you can change its color and format.

 

4. Once you satisfied with your gadget’s design and format, then simply click on the EMBED button at the right side of the gadget’s preview.
5. Now copy the entire code from the box and paste it into new HTML/JavaScript gadget in your blog.


6. That’s it.

• Must Check: Brand New Social Sharing Widget For Blogger

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Blogger To WordPress Migration, Horrible Issues:

WordPress is great and have lots of potential to reach blog up in the blog-o-sphere. If you are aware with WordPress, then I must recommend you to go with it when you plan to start a new blog. It’s simply AWESOME but you will also face some horrible issues if you migrate your blog from blogger to WP. I’m listing them below with possible solutions.

Problems After Blogger To WordPress Move

I’m listing all the issues that I face after moving my blog on WP. I’m trying to fix them as soon as possible to protect my blog from any misshapen.

1. No Featured Image

WordPress have a great option that allows users to choose featured image of their choice that they wanna show as a post thumbnail. But after importing your blogger posts to WordPress blog, there will be no featured image by default and you’ll lose the thumbnails for all of your posts.
Solution:
Wordpress only shows featured images if they are hosted on your blog. Means to show your post thumbnails, you have to edit your posts. Upload the images inside the posts and set them as featured image. Only then they will appear as post thumbnail. (Really a time-wasting job – but have to do :()

2. Dead Codes

In your blogger blog posts, you may use HTML and CSS codes to highlight or to decorate your texts. This is really important to grab user’s attention towards a particular piece of text. But all those codes will be lost after moving your blog on WP.
For example:

<div style=”background-color:yellow”>Demo Text</div>

Will convert to

<div>Demo Text</div>

If you are providing codes for any widgets and plugins to your readers, then you are really going to fall in a big trouble because all of your codes will be disappeared from the post. This thing happens with me. See below screenshot.

Codes within posts will lost :(

Solution:
If you wanna apply codes then you have to add them again.
And if you wanna show codes, then you have two options.

1. Encode your codes using this Encoder Tool before putting them into your posts.
2. Put your codes in Visual View but not in the Text View of post editor.

3. Static Pages will be No-More

Yes, I really mean it. After moving your blog from blogger to WP, you are going to kill all of your static pages. We can import our blog posts and comments but not the static pages.
If you are using your static pages for HTML sitemap and building links to those pages, then surely you can’t afford to lose your static pages. Right?
Solution:

1. Create new pages on WordPress
2. Redirect your blogger pages links to WP pages using Redirection plugin.

4. Duplicate Content Issues

You might be familiar that having duplicate content in blog is directly means to invite search engines to penalize your blog for duplicate content issues. This is really gonna happen with you if you are planning to move on WP.
In blogger, you might use multiple labels for single post which have no issues because labels are set to noindex for search engines, but on WordPress, all those labels will convert into categories. And having single post in multiple categories will be your biggest mistake.
Solution:
You can prevent your blog from this issue using below possible solution:

1. No index your category pages
2. Don’t include category name in post’s permalink. Use only post name in permalinks using below custom permalink structure.

/%postname%/

5. Unwanted Tags

Not for all posts, but you may get some unwanted and nonsense tags attached with your posts. This thing is really going to annoy you and will destroy your blog’s reputation.
Tags helps to categories the posts deeply and must be named wisely that attract readers to click. It not only make your blog navigation easy for your readers but also help to increase blog page views.
After the migration you’ll get lots of unwanted tags and those tags must be removed as soon as possible.
Solution:

1. Navigate to Posts > Tags
2. Delete all tags from there.

If you wanna add your desired tags to all of your posts, then navigate to Posts > All Posts and then hover your mouse pointer to your post titles, click on Quick Edit and change the tags from there. This process will be lengthy and time-consuming too, but it’s must to take care.

6. Comments Without Avatar

In blogger, commentator’s Google plus profile image shows as Avatar in comments they leave but this is not in the case of wordpress. We have to register for an account on Gravatar.com and have to upload our profile image there. That profile image will appear in comments as Avatar.
That means, your old comments will look ugly without any avatar. See below screenshot:

Comments on my blogger posts have no Avatar :(

Solution:

1. Register for an account at Gravatar.com and upload your profile image there.
2. Use your Gravatar account’s email id while commenting. Your avatar will show for your future comments.

If you wanna show avatar for previous comments too, then you have to edit the comments and replace blogger’s default email id (noreply@blogger.com) with your Gravatar’s email id. Possibly it’s the best solution

7. Tons of Crawling Errors

I’m not an expert and that’s why I got a lot of crawling errors in Google Webmaster Tools account after shifting my blog content from Blogger to WordPress. There were two major crawling errors:
Comments feed errors and mobile view errors.

Crawling Errors in GWT :(

Solution:
Actually I also don’t know how to remove these errors but truly said; as time passes, these errors are also reducing day by day. Now only 130 errors are left from 540. This improvement really feels me relax

8. Traffic Touches To Ground

Expert says that we don’t lose our traffic when we migrate our blog from Blogger to WordPress. But this was not happen in my case. I face decent traffic down after moving my blog on WP but within 10 days I recovered all of my traffic.

Traffic Hits the Ground and recovered super fast :D

Check out the solution to know how I recover my traffic so fast

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