How to Reduce Wait Times with Image Optimization

How to Reduce Wait Times with Image Optimization

Even though more and more Internet users switch to broadband every year, a large portion of the web's population is still running on good old dialup connections. And although it may be easier to do so, you cannot discount them and must consider their load time with your Vancouver web design.

For the most part, dialup connections won't have any difficulty loading the text on your website. More often than not, the issue is to do with the imagery on your website and not the text, it therefore becomes imperative to make sure your website has a nice balance of images and text.

You should also go to a greater length and optimize every image on your Vancouver web site to make sure it loads in the least time possible. This generally means you're using image editing software to reduce the file size by removing unnecessary information and through compression.

If you own Photoshop, it will be obvious to you that when you save an image as a JPEG file, a dialog box appears and lets you choose the "quality" of the JPEG image -- normally a setting of 8 to 10 is good enough as it will preserve the quality of your image while saving it at a small file size. If you don't use Photoshop, the internet offers many free image editing programs which you can use to compress and thus reduce the size of your images.

A good alternative to JPG is a PNG file - this will still give you a good quality photo while maintaining a lowered file size. You can also save your images in GIF format -- the image editing software clips away all the color information not used in your image, hence giving you the smallest file size possible. However, saving in GIF format will often compromise the appearance of your image, so make your choice wisely!

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