Mon, 30 Aug 1999 20:22:00 +0000

If your looking for another server to host your website, check out www.xoom.com.

They give you 20mb and it is quite a fast server for a free one. They place a small add at the top of each page within a frame - there are no annoying popup windows.

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Mon, 30 Aug 1999 01:14:00 +0000

By the way: as a rule youc an say that an image exported with the Photoshop Gif Exporter is only half as big as an image safed with Photoshop as Gif.

Load time can also be affected by tables. If its not absolutely neccessary to have everything in one big table split you page up in sub tables, so parts can be displayed before the whole page is loaded.

Later,

Malte

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Fri, 27 Aug 1999 23:59:00 +0000

As I do not have your web site in front of me it's hard to say, but one of the basic problem with graphics on the net today is image formats; Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) is best used for color intensive images, such as photos. Graphics interchange format (GIF) and other bit mapped formats are much better for low color use, as they can show the same quality at a much smaller size.

You can normally use Adobe PhotoShop or Jasc Paint Shop Pro to shrink image size by playing around with the format, amount of colors, and dithering. However I’d highly suggest downloading an image compression software program. There are quite a few including Adobe ImageReady, DeBabelizer, and Ulead SmartSaver.

Good Luck..

Adam
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tiny — Tue, 24 Aug 1999 00:30:00 +0000

I've found several things impact load time.

1) backgrounds - if you use a background "image", keep it consistent on all pages. Once the background is loaded, all other pages load a lot faster.

2) image size (I try to keep mine under 400 pixels wide).

3) make sure your image tag is complete. I was once told all image tags need to supply the width, height, border & alt (what message pops up when the mouse pointer is on the image). For example:

4) The loading time will be greatly affected if you are not using the correct dimensions on an image. View your uploaded image. Your dimensions will be displayed in the top left corner of your browser.

5) and I agree that the NUMBER of images can make it load a lot slower.

6) and I've used the LinkExchange Site Inspector quite frequently with great results.

Hope this helps. I know it helped me.

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Andy Pagorek — Thu, 29 Jul 1999 01:33:00 +0000

Use a site validator. It will tell you the load time of one or all links. Also suggest compression of gif or jpg images. I believe the second site has a gif compressor to crunch their sizes.
Add height/width/alt to images. Get rid of animated gif's. Are they really necessary or just an ego thing? I went through that stage and quit when I found how long my site was taking to load.
http://siteinspector.linkexchange.com/
http://209.238.38.130/html_check.htm
http://validator.w3.org/

Andy.

Curtis Stevens — Thu, 29 Jul 1999 01:31:00 +0000

Hi Jess,
Check out: http://www.websitegarage.com It will tell him how fast on different connections and all kinds of stuff, free!

HTH
Curtis

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Brian Farkas — Thu, 29 Jul 1999 01:29:00 +0000

Try reducing the number of images, or at least reducing their colors. If that doesn't help, it's time to find a new server. Also, you can break really big pages into smaller sub-pages.

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