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Site URL: https://www.mliuheart.com Hi Guys! We are having trouble with out new website load speed. The homepage and homepage photo take a while to load and so does the product photos and shop photos - Yes good and bad quality internet to play a factor but nonetheless i would like to speed this up as much as i can without losing quality. I've checked online website speed checks but I don't really know what I have to implement to make this change, i've compressed the photos and done all of that so any help or code will really be great! Thanks!!

Site URL: https://tools.pingdom.com Hi Guys, On doing a Website Speed test on a Squarespace site via https://tools.pingdom.com it's getting a severe warning for 'Add Expires Headers' Is this anything we can add or customise via Squarespace? Or somthing they plan to address?

Site URL: https://carlyhillphoto.com There are not enough resources out there for improving site speed, the squarespace help videos and squarespace support doesn't have anything covering these topics. If you have your own tips you've found for improving site load times and speed please add them in the comments for everyone to learn from!! 🙂 Design > Templates > make sure you've only got one installed, if you have older templates uninstall them now! Design > Site Styles > Fonts > use this link here to remove any fonts your not using so that there are less scripts that need to be loaded on initial page load! https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fe2a.studio%2Fsquarespace-tips-how-tos%2Fhow-to-remove-unwanted-fonts-from-your-squarespace-website%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0fWLCkjkiQYCCOAi_ztTiKdtogeZmfb-2W-uRlvUgRNA0kY5V5g__XeX4&h=AT2-Wvu8aAvU-7FNtJbJwDxAYiecmVOqQuRMaQtBLuSaPu6r5xUWxlU2d7ZR6juDgjYLTClAwUcuMtK6qG0vpZrRAnjDhYPlfft-IELwJYfs49zLGIlkS396BeuOlNm570hz3k1b_K_8qxWBkeYYdPhMPQM Those two things alone brought my site speed from around 10sec load time down to 2 sec load time!! 🙂 Hope this helps someone! Test site speed below: https://gtmetrix.com/ https://tools.pingdom.com/#5c5d259127c00000

Does anyone know the optimal image size to upload so that it is sharp at full screen, but doesn’t unduly slow the loading of your site? Also, does it even matter? Are images you upload held someplace on “static.squarespace.com…” area? That way it can be re-sized for large screen, tablet, smartphone, etc. I ask because I find my site can load slow sometimes and I noticed that the image sizes I uploaded were fairly big, 1000 × 1000px. Just trying to understand it better before I spend a bunch of time re-sizing images to potentially speed up my site. Thanks in advance for any insights.Ken