Just created a website, got some questions?

dvdbunny

dvdbunny

dvdbunny

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Hey Guys,

I just made my first website, it took me less than a day. I used freewebs, I can't believe it was so simple to do. Of course I have known others to make such sites like mine in less than an hour. But anyway I am just glad it all went smoothly for my first site.

I got some questions I hope you guys can answer

My site was loading really quick but then i added to the home page a digg this link, a send to a friend link and a add this social bookmark button. Since i did this. It takes a lot longer for the page to load than before. I don't know if this is partly to do with my ISP. As I have got an 8 mbps connection but these last few months my ISP has gone down the drain and the speeds are so slow like a quarter of 1 mbps. Which is just crazy but anyhow still with those 3 things added, the site should still be able to load quickly. Can I do anything to make the site load faster?

Would it help, if I moved each of these 3 things to a different page, like have one on the home page, one on another page and the other one on the last page, would that help?

My site is small, only has 5 pages with hardly nothing on them but a bunch of text and 1 photo that is about 29.2kb
 
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Does it load fast if you remove the extra links?..... (remove 1 at a time, see if there's any change, if not add them back).

If you would supply a link i could tell how you how fast it loads for me.

Remember any time you load content from an external site you are relying on that server to send the content, so if that given site, lets say digg for example is experiencing high levels of traffic then displaying content directly from their site will have a negative impact on your own.
 
I assume they're implemented via some kind of javascript? I've seen this before with some of the social bookmark buttons, simply because the third-party sites that offer them are so slow/overloaded. If possible, move all <script> tags to the bottom of the page (near </body>).

<script> tags block the loading of page content until they are parsed/downloaded. So once the browser hits a <script> tag in the markup - and the script is loading from a slow server - it'll have major impact on your page load times.

The best option is not to use them at all, and instead add your own scoial bookmarking links on the page.
 
Many thanks for the replies

What do you mean add my own social bookmarking links on the page?

I am not registered with any sites, I liked the idea of having the social book marking links in there so people with social bookmarking accounts could digg me while not leaving my page to do so.

Also i see you have added some html code. I created my site using no html knowledge using freewebs. I can use html if I want to.

What if i was to have a separate page titled 'digg this site' would that ease the loading?

Edit: I had signed up to clicky web analytic s through freewebs where i can analyze who's coming to my site
 
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