How to speed up my website?

I am currently hosting at hostgator.com with level 3 VPS Package and starting last January 2011 my website http://www.sourcecodester.com is dropping its traffic. When I open my account at Google webmasters tools, I found out that the Pages crawled per day has dropped from 5,597 to 257.

I read some articles about SEO and so many said that the speed of our website can really affect from indexing by Google.

I apply for a CDN from maxcdn and yes the speed has increase but not as what I am expecting. It's not as fast as I expected actually. I am thinking that may be I need to upgrade my VPS for more nodes but that would require another investment. I am also considering a transfer to www.vps.net and wondering if it is worth compare to hostgator.

Anybody can suggest what could be the best solution to my problem?

Currently I have more than 100k+ visitors a month with 400k+ page views.

Please give me recommendation on the following:

1. The best web hosting. (may be cloud computing like vps.net)
2. CDN

My budget is limited only to $70/month. Currently I am paying about $50/month.

Thank you

 

First thing to note that you have a database driven site.
Unless you have good amount of DB memory, good processor site might be slower if you have lot of data.

First thing to do would be checking to DB query see how you can optimize them.
Second use the firebug tool see which parts of the pages are taking more time, and correct them.

 

Can I assume that the speed for website can make our index higher and lower?

 

Yes it can.

 

Yes I'm on godaddy shared hosting I only get a few visitors each day but my site is extremely slow, For my main site I have a vps from hostgator and it seems to work fine.

 

Usually if the bots can't get to your site at good loading times, it'll be tough for them to crawl all your pages.

 

this is very simple you just go to our FTP and get a gadget put in to your site html code and next your site speed up

 

For me your website is loading pretty good, also i have made a test speed, and it runs super: The load time is 0.55 secs.

 

Hi to all,

I just want to update that I have already configure my site correctly. During the time I posted this question, I just configured CDN and I did not notice an increase of speed. Just today I have already cached all files to maxcdn.

I don't know if imfusa is referring to my site which is now loading pretty good.

If anybody could test my website if it is loading faster now I would be very grateful to hear that.

Thanks all

 

I am using YSlow firebug plugin (firefox) for site's analysis.
It shows you weak points in site (For your its mostly to use more gzip)

 

Increase back link and get traffic from your site automatically speed up.

 

to speed up your website, you need to delete some useless script, code, image,...

 

steady hosting + div+css Website +

 

Try to do page optimization 1st before going for CDN. You can use Page Speed.

 

I think these answers are all very good.

 

The best practices to maximize the speed of the wesite:-
1)Minimize http requests.
2)Use a content delivery network.
3)Add an expires or a cache-control header.
4)Put stylesheets at the top.
5)Put scripts at the bottom.
6)Avoid CSS expressions.
7)Make JavaScript and CSS external.
8)Avoid redirects.