How to increase website speed on mobile?
With the popularity of mobile phones and tablets, most visitors will come to your website with mobile devices. If your website doesn't load within 3-5 seconds, those visitors will instantly leave your website.
A lot of website owners and developers struggle to increase the website loading speed. So they add a cache system, CDN links, optimize images, reduce server-side requests, minify CSS, JS and do more stuff to optimize the loading speed of the website.
With those technics, they may increase the website speed on the desktop version, but when they check the speed of the mobile version of the website, Most of the time, the website still loading too slowly. When they check it on website page speed test applications like Google page speed, it will give a really low value.
In this article, I'm going to share my own experience and how I optimize page speed on mobile.
Usually, landing pages and websites have a lot of content on the home page, so in the desktop version, it's not a big deal to load all of those content. But on a mobile phone, it will take a long time to load all of that content.
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How to increase website speed on mobile?
You can hide all unnecessary elements by adding CSS media queries. You don't need to show every element on your website to mobile users. Just show them the key elements/section of your website and hide all extra details.
Most importantly, if your website has a ton of images, hide 95% of those images.
When you do these things, you’ll be able to make your website lightweight and the speed of the mobile version will increase instantly.
Finally, mobile users will browse your website without any lading issues.
In this short article, I only cover the home page speed optimization, if you need more ways to increase the mobile version speed of your website, let me know by adding a comment.