No one likes a slow or lagging website and if your website is slow and pretty unresponsive then it is literally impossible to grow traffic and build a loyal audience for your site’s content. The responsiveness of the site is the measure of how quickly the website reacts to the commands of the visitors, does it start to lag when clicking a link or requesting data from the site? Is the UI (user interface) of your site not up to date? If so then your site needs some groundwork and fast too because search engines continue to de-rank such sites and you would have to spend plenty of time to improve your ranking.
The most obvious benefit of a fast and responsive site is the overall traffic reaching you. Plus, the UI of your site gets improved which in turn improves your SEO and search engine ranking. A responsive site opens easily, responds to all requests of the visitor, and leaves a glistening impact on them. Also, it is pretty easy and cost-effective to manage such a site.
Components that can make your site fast and responsive
Clean and responsive UI
Sure, there are a lot of things that you can do to increase the responsiveness of your site and the very first thing in this regard is that you build on a responsive theme or design. Choosing to work with clean and error-free code and a top-notch developer who understands these complications is the key here. If the overall design of your website is not flawed then you are on the right track and will eventually be able to make the best out of your website.
Working with a pretty stable theme allows users to be able to get around each and every component of your site without having to stress themselves out. This not only helps you to improve your ranking on the search engines but also increasing your overall SEO score which ultimately means more traffic coming your way.
Litespeed server
The next component on the list is the Litespeed server, which is a web server that is designed for over-the-top scalability and efficiency of the site’s OS. Litespeed uses a specific framework that allows your site to load pretty quickly as it can communicate with each and every line of code at a blazing fast speed. You can use this web server today to replace your old one and there is hardly any technicality involved, all your site’s data and protocols will be shifted to the Litespeed server without damaging or breaking anything. This is the best thing that you can do to improve the overall responsiveness of your site.
NVMe disk drive
Last but not least an NVMe drive can go a long way over improving the overall responsiveness of your site. Sure you can choose a responsive theme, move your site to a Litespeed web server but it still has to load all that data for a dedicated visitor from a disk source. The agility and responsiveness of the disk source are going to make all the difference here.
If you are still stuck with the HDD or non-NVMe SSD storage protocols then despite the fact that your site uses a well-crafted design and is in fact present on a Litespeed server is going to take a lot of time to load all its components. An NVMe drive on the other hand can make this process lightning-fast, due to the dedicated PCI interface an NVMe is capable of leveraging the true speeds at which SSD are capable of working. It will really make your website load properly and in a matter of seconds despite visitor number and overall stress your site is under.