sany101
Joined: 13 Nov 2011
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 Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2011 8:22 am Post subject: Reduce load time through image optimization |
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Although more and more users of broadband Internet to change every year, much of the population of the web continues to operate in good dial-old. It is therefore prudent to have them out of the equation when you are designing your website, and a very important consideration that we have to make for dialup users is the loading time of your website.
In general, all text on your web site loads in a very short time, even on a dialup connection. The culprit of slow loading sites is mainly large images on your website, and it is very important to achieve a delicate balance between using just enough images to attract users and do not bog down the load time total of your site.
You should also go to greater length and optimize every image on your site to ensure that the loads in the shortest time possible. What it really means is the use of image editing software to remove unnecessary information on your images, and thus effectively reduce the file size of the image without affecting its appearance.
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" JPEG image - normally a setting of 8 to 10 is good enough and to preserve its image quality, while saving a small file size. If you do not have Photoshop, there are many free image compressors online that you can download and use to reduce the size of the image file.
On the other hand, you can choose to save images in PNG format to get the best quality to file size. You can also save images in GIF format - the image editing software clips away all the color information not used in your image, which gives the smallest file size possible. However, saving in GIF format will often compromise the appearance of his image, so that your choice wisely!
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