subject: Cutting down Website Internet Page load Time Through Picture Optimisation [print this page] Cutting down Website Internet Page load Time Through Picture Optimisation
Even though more and more web customers convert to broad-band each year, a considerable fraction of the web's community is still using on good old dialup internet connections. It is for this reason unwise to count them out of the equation when you're plotting your website, and a really heavyweight consideration we have to consider for dial up users is the page loading time of your website.
Almost always, all the body on your site will be loaded in a very abridged time even on a dial up internet connection. The transgressor of delayed-loading web-sites is most of all large images on your site, and it is very crucial to strike an expert balance amidst using just enough images to attract your users and not to bog down the general loading time of your site.
You should as well go to a more length and optimize each picture on your site to make sure it loads in the lowest time possible. What I really hint at is to use image modification software to exclude irrelevant news on your pictures, and thereby efficiently reducing the file size of your image without affecting its appearance.
If you enjoy Photoshop, it will be distinct to you that when you save an picture as a JPEG file, a dialog box appears and allows you choose the "quality" of the JPEG picture -- ordinarily a setting of 8 to 10 is good enough as it may preserve the quality of your picture while saving it at a small file size. If you do not possess Photoshop, there are many free picture compressors on-line that you can digitize and use to beat down your image's file size.
On the other hand, you can decide to save your images in PNG format to get the golden quality at the least file size. You can also save your pictures 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. All the same, saving in GIF format may often compromise the display of your picture, so make your appraisal wisely!
