Make your blog load faster

The speed at which your blog loads is critical to attracting more readers to your blog. If your blog takes a long time to load, many readers may leave your blog before they have the chance to read it. Here are a few tips and tricks that will help your blog load faster and attract more users:

Posts

Your blog's load time can be affected by the number of posts you display on your main page. You can easily edit the number of posts displayed of the main page from the Layout tab. Click Edit in the Blog post section to change the number of posts you want to display on the main page. We recommend displaying 10 or fewer posts on the main page.

Third Party JavaScript and Links

For optimal blog load speed, we recommend using Google/Blogger widgets, JavaScript and links. However, if you need to use third party JavaScript and links, your blog will load much faster if you put all JavaScript at the bottom of your blog. If you have third party JavaScript and links in your sidebar, put them in at the bottom of the sidebar.

Images and Media

The more images, videos and other multi-media you have on your blog the longer it will take to load. However, images and other multimedia are important to attracting users to your blog, so it is important to optimize the load speed of your images and media. Here are a few tips to increase the load speed of your media:

• Decrease the size of your images or use thumbnails that link to the full-size image.
• If you use third party images, consider uploading them to Picasa Web Albums via the Blogger post editor.
• If you have a large number of images to display, you can upload all your images (from a vacation or event) to a Picasa Web Album and link to the album in your post or sidebar.

Other suggestions

• If you've added any custom CSS to your blog, make sure you put it at the top of the page.
• The most important content of your blog that catches readers attention should load the quickest. To help you identify which items are taking the longest to load you can use Stopwatch. To use Stopwatch, enter your blog's URL into the text box and click "Start StopWatch". Stopwatch will then open your blog in a frame and will record the time it takes for everything on your blog to load, including images, videos, widgets, etc. Take note of the items that take the longest to load and modify them appropriately using our suggestions.

Blogger Dashboard

Blogger Dashboard is the main control station of your blog. You can View your all blogs and Blog Subscription details. Create new blogs or Edit your blogs, Change blogger profile details. This is the access point for all your blogger tasks. In this post lets discuss about the Blogger Dashboard. Look at the screen shot posted below. Click to read more about those topics in detail. When you logged in to your blogger account you will be redirected to yourBlogger Dashboard. When you are in other page you can click on the Dashboard link at the top right corner as shown in the Screen shot as number one.  

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1. Dashboard link
This is the link to the Blogger Dashboard You can access your Dashboard from anywhere in your blogger account.


2. Your Google Account
This is the link to the settings page for your Google account.  You can change your Email settings and passwords.. Security settings. All password recovery options. You can access all Google related services you are using with this E-mail address using this page. 


3. Sign Out
I don't think that you need any info about this :P


4. Create a Blog
This is the place you can make a new Blog. It will open the new blog wizard. You can select a theme and a name for your blog and start blogging from that link. Lets read about it more later.


5. New Post
After Creating a Blog you can add Posts / Pages Using this link. Adding new pages and posts is very easy in blogger with simple and user friendly New post toolbar.


6. Edit posts
You can change your old posts and Saved drafts using this link.

7. Review comments
You can review user comments using this link. Blogger has embedded spam detection system, so it will block all spam comments. you can see them and report or block other comments also. Blogger comments are a big topic. lets discuss about blogger comments in another article.


8. Settings
This is a very important section for your blog. There are few sub sections in settings page.. Lets study about them in separate Articles for each section.  You can change your Blog name, title, Blog address and all settings related to your blog from here without touching the code. 


9. Design
This is the section you can change your blogger design. You can edit your template, Add new templates and Gadgets from this tab. There are 2 ways you can change the design of your blog. you can manually add blog gadgets in "Page elements" tab or You can change or add scripts and Html codes in "Edit HTML" tab. Template designer is the section you can change your blog appearance, Fonts and color settings.

10. Monetize
Monetize is the tab you can check your Google Adsense info. You can read more about Google Adsense in Adsense section on this site. You can Apply for Google Adsense using Monetize tab. But you need some Basic requirements to apply for Google Adsense. If you have Adsense in your blog you can check your income, Traffic and other info related to Google Adsense.

11. Blogger Stats
This is also a very important page.  You can check your site info using this page. Views per page, Traffic sources, Countries, Operating systems and Browsers of your visitors. This will be helpful for Search engine optimization for your blog.


12. Blogger Profile
This is the page you can change your profile settings. you can change your blogger username and profile picture. You can choose which blogs should appear on your public profile using profile settings.

Lets talk more about those topics on upcoming posts...  Use comment section for your ideas and Questions.