Get Ready For The Holiday Rush: Optimize Your Website With A Content Delivery Network
The exciting holiday season will be here very soon. Is your website capable of handling the frenzy that will happen during the upcoming weeks? It is important that your website’s homepage and under pages are able to handle the amount of traffic your website will get. You want the extra customer traffic to result in a purchase, and not result in frustration for the visitors who cannot access your page.
To get you prepared, there are several ways you can optimize your e-commerce website for not only the holiday season but for any other time of the year as well.
Give Your Website Some Speed
If your website is slow, it will result in people leaving your website for a fast-loading website. The average website visitor will lose patients in a matter of seconds if your website loads too slowly. What can you do to speed up your website?
1. Think about using a Content Delivery network so you will know that your website’s pages will load quickly. The website’s visitors will see the pages load quickly, regardless of where they are located in the world.
2. Make sure your photos or videos will be able to load quickly on your website.
3. Make sure your server or servers are able to handle the holiday frenzy.
Speed is essential if you want to have a good website. Not only will your users enjoy using it more – no one likes to wait for a slow website – but it will improve your SEO rankings as well. It is common knowledge that Google prefers websites that load faster, and will give your website a boost in the rankings as a result.
Create An Appealing Website
We all know that the first impression can mean everything. If you want your website’s visitor’s to turn into paying visitors, then you will need to make sure your website appeals to them. You want to reel them in with an awesome website.
If they have even one glance at your website and it is not appealing, they will likely to hit the exit button. Since it is the holidays, you can think about adding images or videos that are appealing to them. You know they are looking to purchase holiday gifts, why not highlight some of your best items to attract them?
If you want to know more information about how you can get your website ready for the holiday rush, do not hesitate to contact us today.
