Increasing your pagespeed is an important issue on a website or blog. There are a couple of reasons te improve your pagespeed a much as you can. Especially as a travelblogger you have to improve your pagespeed because the internet in a lot of countries isn’t good and your target group visits the website often bij phone or tablet. (on my website 50/50)
There are three main things that are responsible for your pagespeed.
The two tools I use are Pingdom tools and Google Pagespeed Insights. These websites check your pagespeed and gives you options to improve your website.
http://tools.pingdom.com/
https://developers.google.com/
tip. beside the homepage check also the pagespeed of a single page.
They will provide options who are easy and more technical issues. The Google option you can easy see what you can improve. The Pingdom tools are easy to see what kind of file is slowing down your pagespeed by a waterfall structure.
There are several ways to increase the pagespeed of your website or blog. Here a couple of things you can do. This article from MOZ about pagespeed describes 15 tips what you can do.
https://moz.com/blog/15-tips-to-speed-up-your-website
Using a CDN can really help you to increase your page speed and directly covers some of the 15 tips above. CDN servers are made to be quick and cache your contents. They are also positioned at strategic positions around the world to get them as close as possible to your readers. We use KeyCDN as CDN service and we had it up and running within 5 minutes. Especially if you run you blog on WordPress it is really easy to switch to a CDN by using the KeyCDN WordPress plugin ‘CDN Enabler‘. Enable a CDN in five simple steps:
Google provides a library where you can learn a lot about pagespeed and site optimization.
https://developers.google.com/speed/