This content was created by Dotty Scott. This content was uploaded by Dotty Scott. This is a YouTube video titled "Faster Loading Mobile Sites" (published 2023-03-03) containing a solo talk about optimizing websites for mobile. The speaker emphasizes prioritizing mobile optimization over desktop, recommends removing sliders, and suggests using SVG graphics (for example, exporting vector graphics from tools like Canva instead of large photographs) to speed load times and improve mobile indexing.
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You may have also heard over the years you have to optimize your mobile site. Okay, and this is now like the most important thing for your own website. It, it's to the point where I don't care if your desktop is optimized. As a web designer, I care if your mobile site is optimized. What does that mean? If you're using a slider, stop. Stop today. Get it off your website. That will slow your website down. Other things that are super important are your images. And this is why I, I went down the rabbit hole of SVG images, which you might have seen some posts on that. And Canva does this. I love Canva. If you're using graphics that are not photographs, you can put it into Canva, whether it's a JPEG or PNG or whatever it is, and you can then save that out of Canva as an SVG file. That stands for SVGs, scalable vector graphics. So I, on the sites that I'm working on now, I am encouraging owners to stop using the huge photographs and start using graphics created in a program like Canva. They don't have to use that, use whatever. But because we can save those as an SVG file, and they load like that versus waiting for the picture to show up, that is gonna help our mobile indexing.
