Impacts of Web Hosting Speed on Page Load Speed

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What is Web Hosting?
How Website Hosting affects your Page Speed?
What makes Web Hosting Services faster than others?
Some best Web Hosting companies
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WHAT IS WEB HOSTING ?

For a website to be viewed by a visitor it need to be hosted on a server which can be either be maintained by you yourself, which require separate dedicated resources like server, peripherals and staff, or you can outsource the same and buy it as service from the providers.

These Providers are called Web Hosting Service Providers and can provide the services basis packages depending upon the resources that are required by us to host our website. The resources required are type of server, Space, bandwidth and others for website.

Web hosting is the service that makes your website available to be viewed by others on the internet. So for publishing a website, you will need a web hosting. Web hosting services store your website files on their web servers connected to a very fast network.

Typically, for an individual business, hosting its own site would require a similar connection and it would be expensive. Hosting services has made it easy for businesses to have a website by providing them hosting for serving their files in affordable cost.

When internet users want to view your website, all they need is to type your domain into their browser. The internet connects to your web server and transfers your website information back to viewer’s computer.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row el_id=”WH-Affects–pagespeed” css=”.vc_custom_1494314868172{margin-top: 35px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]

HOW WEBSITE HOSTING AFFECTS PAGE SPEED ?

When Browsing, you are preferably accessing remote files stores in the web servers. The speed of the web hosting plays an important role here, faster the Web hosting speed faster the user will access the requested page.

Here is how web hosting helps in Improving Page Speed

• Improves the Execution of the source code

  The web server executes thousands of interrelated codes to display a single page. The codes take the time to execute therefore page speed optimization is so vital. Complex coding can also be the reason for making web pages slow to load.

• Run Database Queries

  For any CMS based website, the website code will have to run database queries fetch the webpage content from a database.

• Improves the execution of server files

  A common webpage requires the web server to deliver dozens of files. (CSS, Images , JavaScript). As fast as the server delivers them, the fast your webpage loads.

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WHAT MAKES A WEB HOSTING SERVICE FASTER ?

• Dedicated Resources

  Choose a hosting plan which offers dedicated resources. Instead of choosing a shared hosting plan, choose a VPN or a dedicated server. The dedicated server plan saves you the stress of other hogging resources. It assures that only you have access to your disk space, RAM and CPU core allotment. Means you will have a much more stable hosting environment. 

  Shared hosting plans have limited resources and the speed is also depended on another user’s traffic sharing the hosting that can make a web pages slow to load. But in dedicated hosting, the server will be entirely dedicated to your site so you don’t have to worry about another user’s traffic.

• Fast Hard Drive

  Having a solid state drive (SSD) load files much faster than a standard hard drive resulting in a faster and enhanced performance.

• Add more resources 

  If choose an advanced web hosting plans, you will get more increased processing power and enhanced memory. It helps server in executing the request faster.

• Location of necessary resources

  Keeping your database on the web server directly can enhance the performance more in comparison to having them on another server. Its going to help you in website speed optimization a lot.

 

Upgrading the web hosting can have a powerful impact on webpage load speed. A faster web server generally means a lower time to first byte. Time to the First Byte (TTFB) measures the duration from the user making an HTTP request to the first byte if the page being received by the client’s browser.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row el_id=”best_webhosting” css=”.vc_custom_1494315016055{margin-top: 35px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]

SOME BEST HOSTING COMPANIES

Hosting Company	Load Time	Server Location	Price(April 2017)
Hostgator	210 ms	Charlotte, NC	$2.90/mo
SiteGround	560 ms	Chicago	$3.95/mo
Bluehost	890 ms	Provo, UT	$3.95/mo
A2 Hosting	380 ms	Ann Arbor, MI	$3.93/mo
Ehost	280 ms	Houston, Texas	$2.75/mo
Web Hosting Hub	240 ms	Virginia Beach, VA Los Angeles, CA	$3.99/mo
Site5	704 ms	Atlanta, GA	$4.95/mo

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• The perfect web hosting is very essential because if your web hosting is slow then all your efforts will be wasted. No matter how much page speed optimization efforts you put, slow hosting will ruin it.
• So the first step in website speed optimization should be choosing a faster web hosting, then you should optimize the page speed with other efforts.

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