How To Speed Up A Website
Posted by Elizabeth Richardson | Under Website Problems & Solutions Tuesday Oct 21, 2008Why do people tell me my website is slow to load?
One of the most common problems you’ll encounter when building your websites is that the images on your pages take forever to load. This can be a real problem because your visitors are unlikely to wait around for the page to show up in their browsers.
It’s also a sign of unprofessionalism and a problem generally associated with cheap, do-it-yourself websites.
Your images might look small on the page, but if you haven’t changed the ‘file sizes’ of them then they’re bound to be much bigger than they need to be.
I’ve just come across this great tutorial on “how to optimize an image for the web; while preserving the image quality; which will help your site load faster”.
Optimizing Your Website Images
http://www.reichelgraphicdesign.com/…al_resize.html
