This is the age of broadband Internet connections nevertheless, dial up connections are much cheaper and hence used by many even to this date. If you are looking at improving the usability of your website, then you need to address these people. This has a lot to do with improving the load speed of your website.

Following are some tips that can help you achieve this:

1.  Reduce the size of html code by using css. This can also make your code more editable.

2.  Optimize File Size of images using online image optimizers. Your visitors wont notice the difference except that your site will load much faster.

3.  Don’t add unnecessary features that serve no purpose. Reduce Images, flash audio files for faster load time.

4.  Build several smaller and readable web pages instead of designing one big page. This can improve speed of these individual pages and also save people the trouble of using scroll bars.

5.  Reduce unnecessary spaces and tabs in your code, this can reduce your overall page size and help it load faster. This can also help the validation of your code.

6.  Use a dedicated server. If you go for a slow server that tries to handle many sites at the same time, you may have to be content with slow loading web pages.