How Many Posts Do You Show On Your Front Page?

We used to do 5, but it made our front page way too long. :???:

We only do 2 posts on our front page.

I show one post every Page and I think that makes my readers comfortable. I liked Ur blog and want assistance from you regarding my blog www.allaboutparenting.blogspot.com. Can you please help me by giving ur valuable suggestions.

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I had a similiar experiene when I first started my blog (financeviewpoint.com), where I want to display all my posts to show how much writing I have done. After a while you learn what works best to monetize your blog...in that I know display about 5-7 posts (depending on how long they are) in order to maximise the content to ad ratio as users (hopefully) scroll down.

Andy.

I'd like to see 10 or so. =)

And also I use an image for all posts... If I am not doing that then I could make the make homepage less than 30 or 25kb.......

I show only 7 posts.. and I use the Read More option so that my frontpage is around 50kb only............

Dear chow
if i was at your place,i would place one post per page. First, it will create lot of easy for readers as not much scrolling will be required. secondly it will automatically force readers to come and read what is new on blog as every time they will visit they will have new post for the current day. This will also help showing contents quickly.
Technically this will help improving your website traffic. Ask how?
It will generate much more page view, that is how !.
Good luck:)

Currently I am showing 5 posts on the first page :roll: , It's my new blog http://www.vhxn.com

Too Many. I need to cut down. I roughly show around 10 at the moment.

I usually stick to about 5, or 10 if I use summaries instead of the full post.
~ Dave

Currently I'm showing four. It suits my theme well :) But I usually go for five.

Five. I used to have ten, but based on some of the issues already raised (load time, scrolling, etc.) I wanted to drop it down. I actually polled my readers and "Don't care how many" actually won. So. Five it is. :grin:

I show only four posts on front page of my blog becasue some posts are quite long.

10 standard is fine for me always

Mine used to be 10 but now, 6. :razz:

hmmm i can show my post in my home blog is 5 post because i want my visitor easy load my blog

I think 10 is a standard and thats how many i shwo in my front page. But its all depends hwo long are your posts, if short like 250 words then u coudl set like 15 or mroe but if your posts are longer like articles then i tihnk 10 is max.

I'm doing 5, 1 full page and the other 4 are excerpts.

Personally, I've chosen to have the 10 most recent posts displayed on my homepage. Only a snippet of the post, rather than the full version will be displayed, however, in order to give each visitor a better overview.

I show 10 on the frontpage but they are excerpts for both loading and dup content considerations.

Personally, my blog is set to display the most recent 10 posts on the homepage, but I don't diplay the full post, only a snippet is displayed. Makes it easier to give each visitor a general overview that way.

5, no more, no less, only 5, just 5.

I show five. It looks a whole lot better. :)

It takes longer to load a single page on this site compared to home page, because of all the dam comments! :twisted:

I admit, I can't catch up with your posts, so I subscribe to your feed and read it later :D

Having 3 posts on a page is good and it does lower the load time compared to when you had 10-20 posts. Talk about cooking dinner before your page loaded :)

-Mike

from 6 i'm drop'n it to 3.. :grin:

I currently display 10 posts / page and the page gets quite long. I'll probably cut it down to only 5 /page. Not sure yet, I'll soon change the theme of my blog. I'll adapt the number of posts to how these fits with the theme.

5 I think. I have a static front page on one site.
I think that more than 5 takes too long to load.

I used to put 8. Then I cut it into 5.. However, since I used the new theme, I found that it doesn't look nice with so many long posts.. So I cut it into 3 only..

I think 7 entries is much better. That way you have 2+ days covered.
Looking at your site, the main problems that are causing the higher load time are mainly two things:
- Bad coding
- Too many images
Your site took more then 12 seconds to load completely, whereas my blog cosmocentral.com take about 1-3 seconds to load.
How to solve this problem?
- You are reducing the number of posts, thats a good step.
- Check your code. Have it done using CSS as much as possible. In many cases you can use CSS instead of images
- Optimize the images to reduce the size. No matter you use jpeg or gif there are ways to reduce the size.
- Use HTTP compression.

I'm a big fan of the continued reading. At first I thought it was lame, but now, it's much more practical and my readers don't mind.

Glad to see that John is using ideas from my own blog... I posted on this in early October. Since then, I've gone to five full posts on the front page, but I strive for variety with video posts, graphics, short posts, etc. to break things up. I've tried a variety, though, but generally find that five posts is easiest on the server. I really hate blogs that have more than 20 posts... there are some that seem to try to put the whole blog on the first page, followed by every conceivable icon, javascript and ad program they can find.... It loads like treacle even on my 8GB ADSL link.

Kenneth

I go between 5 and 7 posts on my front page. When I have a lot of short posts I show 7. It makes the page shorter so people do not have to scroll as much.

I prefer showing more posts but splitting them up with "read more..." instead of showing the full post.

Well I only show 5 posts on the front page and the main reason behind it is it cuts of the loading time and looks good.

I think what u are doing is good enough. 5 Posts is never too long nor short.

I also show 5 posts in my blog.
I start to show 10 but it's a long scroll until the bottom so i decided to show only 5. I write 1 or 2 post each day so each visitor can find posts from yesterday in main page if he want.

I currently show 5 articles on the front page in order to keep page loads quick and to prevent the home page from becoming overly long. My niche relates to guitar design and and articles tend to be image heavy.

I also just relaunched the site with a new design but now I'm thinking of reducing the number even further - maybe 3 or 4.

I show 4 posts now, as anymore and I feel it is too much to scroll down for the user and it begins to look ugly. Before, I used to have way more posts on the front page, but I learned the error of my ways.

I Think that 10 is too much :neutral: i currently use 3 posts in my front page and my posts are not too long

I usually read your blog every third day so for me personally, 8 - 10 would be better, would hate to miss a killer entry! :)

I started out with 5 post on the frontpage from the beginning.
I feel more post is a total overkill of scrolling, especially if you're writing long posts.

This wil encourage people to leave your site faster then you would like it.

So keep a max 5 posts please, that's more then enough

I show 5 post on my blog’s front page and my reasoning behind it is simpe navi and low time and scrolling :smile:

I only show 3 now, so as you said its quicker to load, and there are always RSS feeds people can subscribe to. Maybe when and if I add 3 or more posts a day I will increase this.

I use 5 posts as well. if someone has been referred to my site from like a Search Engine or something, then they don't want to it to take forever. That's a potential subscriber lost.

i do 11 do minimize load time and to have some content on the page. i'm at www.CARversation.com, can someone check my site and let me know a good number, my posts vary from length, some are 200 words-1,500 words, to big pictures to just a youtube video.
please let me know.
thanks.