How to Reduce the HTTP Requests to Minimize the Page Loading Time
                     How to Reduce the HTTP Requests to 
Minimize the Page Loading Time
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The loading speed of a website depends on many factors and HTTP request is 
one of them. HTTP requests are made, when the browser requests the objects 
of the web page such as images, videos, flash files, CSS, etc. More number of 
requests reduces the speed or loading time of the website that is leading to the 
downtime. So, in order to reduce the downtime of the website and to speedup 
the loading speed we need to minimize the HTTP requests. So, do you want 
to know the ways to reduce the HTTP requests? Then, read this article.
There are three popular ways to reduce the HTTP requests from a web page 
and increase the speed of the website. This improves the overall performance 
of the website. Make sure to take the following steps:
1. Reduce the no. of images
2. Combine CSS files
3. Combine javascript files
Reduce the number of images
If your website is having many images in the theme then, it becomes 
complicated by increasing the size of image files. Each image in the web page 
is counted as one HTTP request so, as the no. of images increases the HTTP 
requests also increases affecting the loading time of the page. However, there 
is a way through which you can combine all the images and load as one file 
through CSS spriting or through image maps.
Here, the background images are combined into single background image. 
Here the size of the image remains same but, reduces the no. of HTTP 
requests increasing the speed. To perform this step you need to take the help 
of the developer. You can also remove the images which are not visible to the 
users and which are unnecessary from loading to make it more reliable and to 
reduce the loading speed.
Combine CSS files
Reducing the CSS files and combining it in to one file is a easy task. Just find 
out the CSS files in your coding and combine them in to one normal CSS file 
by copying the contents of all those files in one. Though you combine all the 
CSS files into one file the content will be the same without any changes.
Combine javascript files
Combining the js files is a difficult task to perform. You can try combining 
all the js files into a single js file and referencing that file in your web page 
with the help of some developer. You can also use some plugins to perform 
this task. But, performing this task manually is good because this will reduce 
the number of plugins in your website.
These three ways will have huge impact in increasing the loading speed of a 
website and you can also use CDN to improve the speed.
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