Is your Wix website loading slowly?
Hey, what's going on guys?
My name is Greg, and in today's video,
I'm going to show you how to make your Wix website load a lot faster.
This is one trick, but it works so well,
and works on 99% of Wix websites.
So, without further ado, let's get right into this.
If you guys have been following my channel for a while now,
you know this is the template
that I've been customizing and using for YouTube examples.
So, I'm going to go ahead and use this for our example here.
What we need to do, in a nutshell,
to make this website load faster is reduce the file sizes.
A lot of the times, when you get high quality photos on your website,
the file sizes are enormous,
and this takes a long time to pull that information from the server
and load the website every time someone goes to view that website.
So, if we make those file sizes smaller,
we can load the website a lot faster.
Most importantly is your home page, because that's the first page to load.
So, we need to go through all of these photos here
that are on the home page.
Right now, it looks like we only have this one here,
and the landing page photo here.
So, both of those were gonna make smaller,
But once you do this on the home page,
go through your other pages, and do the same process for those.
So, this is the background image we have here, and we need that file.
If you have this on your computer, that's easy.
if it's something you got from Wix,
all you have to do is, change background strip image,
and then, in the photo you just hit 'download,'
and it'll download that photo right to your computer.
So, what we're going to do is,
we're gonna come over to compressor.io, and now what this is,
it's a website. It's completely free to use.
you upload your photo and reduces that photo file size to a smaller file size
without losing any noticeable quality.
What we're going to do here is select the file,
and do that photo process.
A couple of notes here is, you have 'lossy,' or 'lossless.'
Lossless will make it only a fraction smaller,
which is good, and it won't lose any quality at all.
What I recommend is lossy,
you won't be able to notice any difference with your eyes,
but it'll make a big file size difference.
And then, the other thing to note is that
the file size limit is 10 megabytes.
So, if you have a photo that's over ten megabytes,
you first need to go change that file size on your computer.
Chances are, you're probably not gonna have a photo
that's bigger than ten megabytes,
if you do, just let me know
if you can't figure out how to make that smaller before putting it in here.
But if you need that, just let me know,
and I'll let you know how to do that.
But what we're going to do is, select the file.
We're gonna choose that background image,
which you can see is 6.1 megabytes.
That's a really big image. We'll open that,
and we'll let this load here for a second.
It doesn't take too long. So, once this is finished loading here,
it gives us a slider.
So, this is the original image on the left side
and the compressed image on the right, and as you can see,
when you slide it,
there is no noticeable difference and this is on lossy.
As you look at the results here,
you can see the before size with 6.14 megabytes,
And the after size is 4.32 megabytes,
and it looks exactly the same.
So, all you have to do is hit 'download your file,'
and it'll download that new file right to your computer,
and then it will upload that back to Wix
and replace the photo with the smaller size.
As you see, when you start to do this,
this was a very high quality image before, and it was pretty optimized.
That's why I only reduced it thirty percent.
But when you put in standard images,
you'll see that the reduction can be somewhere like ninety five percent,
and this 'after size' will be very small.
That's what you want to aim for, but for this example,
it's still reduced to thirty percent.
So, that's thirty percent less data
that the website has to pull every time someone loads it.
And then, all we'll do is come back over to Wix,
and we'll change this background to a different image,
and we'll upload the new one
and replace it with the smaller file size.
It's as easy as that,
and then something that I wanted to add in here is,
you can go over to unsplash.com,
and there are a ton of images that you can use here.
As you can see,
the one that I just used for this example was right here,
and you can download these completely free.
They're labeled for reuse.
So, it's commercial use.
You don't have to give anyone credit or anything,
and they are completely free to download
and use on your website virtually,
so that's a good resource for you,
And then, the other resource you can use, that's only for Wix users,
which is amazing, is anytime you need a new image,
you can do 'free from Wix' up top.
So, you can just choose from here,
and you have thousands to choose from.
These are all Stock photos that can commercially be used on your website.
So, hopefully that helps you guys.
Just go through, and do that for all the images here,
and you're going to be reducing the size of your website,
and every time you do that,
you're going to be reducing the amount of data
that the website has to pool, every time someone loads your website,
and in return, it'll make your Wix website load faster.
So hopefully, that helps you guys.
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