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Dude all your tips and tricks are right, bu i think you are getting a little extreme here, basically you are telling to not use to much graphics, not use flash, not use backgrounds, not use effects, dudes your site will a blank page lol Heres the thing first of all you need to know how much you need to optimize your site, for example, if you know tha most of the people in your country or people wh... read more.
Well, first you shouldn't have so many graphic or animations on your site. Try to keep the amount of bandwidth takes to load your site down. If you're running a forum or anything. Try to optimize your database.. table.. etc.
You can try not to hot link other people stuff to your site because then it will need to make a new connection for it. And might increase your loading time. If you have ads running on your site.. like popups, ads pop in, graphic banner. Try to put each ads code seperately apart .. instead of listing them one after another. Because this will pause your site from loading while the ads load up. So what i did is .. put one banner at the top of your site. And if you have popups or pop in ads, then put the code at the most bottom of your script so it will load last. So your visitor will be able to read or look at something wile the ads are loading up. And of course, you should try to clean your code/script alittle bit.. so the browser or your server won't have to take that long to read the script.
Most of the loading time for a site is due to graphics, not so much the content. The biggest thing you could do if you haven't already done so is convert all images on your site from whatever it currently is to .gif using a program that will remove unused colors from the pallet, this can reduce the size of your site by over 10 times, thus significantly decreasing your site loading time.
Another big factor in site loading time is javascript. Removing any javascript that you don't really need can also significantly decrease loading time if you had alot from before that you removed.
i have a suggestion
try to remove any script on your site. sometimes pop up in your site make your site slower. if you have images in your site like your logo or something .. you can cut to any piece so that web will faster to be load if you choose free hosting make sure there are no ads. If you have an 800 x 600 image that only takes up 80 x 60 on your site, create a new, smaller version of the image for the clients to use, instead of making the clients download the full sized image. Limiting the number of images on each page will help also. Break up image intensive pages into several smaller ones. Makes the pages easier to manage, and faster for clients to download. Also, using a site wide css file rather than having the same css embedded in to each of your pages will help overall performance. The client ony has to download the css file once into their cache. Here is a link to use to check yur site loading times and it also offers suggestions to do exactly what you are asking about. http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/ Use this link to analyze your pages, make the suggested changes, then run the analyzer again to see how effective it was in cleaning up the site.
 that depends on hosting connection, user connection if u use mysql on your site you have some programs to compress sql and to make mysql to work faster and depends on your template if have a lot of images it`s slower
QUOTE onvert all images on your site from whatever it currently is to .gif THe only problem with that is it will greatly affect the quality of your images, so my advice is a little more graphic specific, if your image contains 1 to 200 colors (that is solid colors, no gradient) then use gif, if it has a lot of gradients don't use .gif, NEVER use .bmp, or .tiff. I personaly try to avoid .png unless it is required for the style of the page. And if you use .jpg don't use 100% as the quality setting. I try anything from 85-95 depending of the content of the image. But the most you should use is 99% as the 1% diffrence isn't noticable, however it will decrease the image size. Also try to use tilling for an image, or if you want to write on a piece of paper (graphic, instead of using the entire picture cut it up make the center HTML color code and the edges images.
Some rules to Really SPEED up your web site loading speed!
1.Try to limit the numbre of images 2. If you can't limit the number of images, make the images .bmp or .png ect. limit the .jpg's and .jpeg's 3. If your using Dreamweaver, check the default settings, because dreamweaver put in a lot of unwanted snippets to your site without even telling you. 4. Make the text of your site load first and then the images! You can do this with dreamweaver 5. Try to make your site look nicer with better text effects than graphic effects! Hope this helps You!!!!
let me see if I read this right
QUOTE If you can't limit the number of images, make the images .bmp or .png ect. limit the .jpg's and .jpeg's could you explain your rationelle for saying this, If you REALLY want to slow down the loading of your site, or not let it load at all in some browsers use .bmp's and stear away from the jpg's and jpeg'sJust for the sake of arguing and to make sure I havn't been mislead I decided to take a 640 x 480 image (that just so happens to be of a fish tank) and saved it once as a bmp, and once as a jpg, so I shall releate my advice if you want your site to load fast DON'T USE .BMP!!! the file was 900kb which on my fancy internet connection (dial-up) would take up to 3 minutes to load, the jpg was ~200kb which on a good day could take less then 1 minute to load.
For fast loading pages here are some tips:
No Flash. No Sound. Use text links for navigation instead of buttons. Use a plain color for the background, instead of a picture. If you use icons, limit it to just one, to add emphasis to text you put it next to. No special effects on the text, like shaking around or fading in. No special effect page transitions either. Skip Javascript entirely if you can help it. I keep it turned off in my browser, and I have a high speed cable connection. I just keep it off for security reasons. Use standard fonts, instead of embedding them in the page. Optimize your HTML, there are free tools online to do that. Use CSS instead of HTML tables. Limit the number of images on the front page, preferably just a site logo. Optimize all your images. There are free tools and software for that. Resist the temptation to put a bunch of advertising banners or other ads all over the pages. Latest Entries
Dude all your tips and tricks are right, bu i think you are getting a little extreme here, basically you are telling to not use to much graphics, not use flash, not use backgrounds, not use effects, dudes your site will a blank page lol
Heres the thing first of all you need to know how much you need to optimize your site, for example, if you know tha most of the people in your country or people who the web is oriented, have a fast internet conection well you dont have to worry so much of this things. About images: of course reducing the size and optimizing them will help, it wont be huge impact unless all your site its about images. Flash: you can make even full flash sites and it will load fast, its just matter of estructuring your site, and not making the whole site in just a movie. Background imgaes: background images just take about 12k or something like that, thats nothing no loading time.
There have been some very good suggestions in the previous posts of ways to make a website load quicker.
Here is my own non technical suggestion - (note: requires self discipline). 1. Take a critical look at offending (slow loading) website. 2. Say to youself, "Right, I am going to redesign this website without using any graphics". 3. Redesign your website to give it a fresh new look. Make up for the lack of snazzy images or flashy-type fireworks by clever use of color and good design technique. Learn all the tricks you can do with stylesheets. Have a look at lots of other websites for ideas, bookmark the ones you like, particularly if you like the color scheme, so that you can go back to them at a later date. 4. Take your time with your redesign, what might look good to you one week might not look so good the following week. 5. Once you are happy with the look of your new website, or you think that it is as good as you can make it - then you can try adding Flash, sounds, images, whatever. 6. Test loading times with/without the extras. 7. Take informed decision which extras to keep that do not have too great an impact on loading time. 8. Go back over the previous posts (to this post) and check that you have implemented all the good suggestions that were made.
Ok, as you have started discussion on raster image formats and which to use when, I’ll give the very basic idea of most popular formats and where to use them.
Let’s start from the very most popular ones  GIF – expanded as Graphic Interchange Format. Initially created to be universal graphic file format to transfer graphical information between different systems. Supports transparency; frame-by-frame animation; can be interlaced, supports up to 256 colours palette though. Very popular in web as is small in size due to little number of colours and is supported by almost every graphic browser known. It is raster image format. It means it safes image as sequence of dots along with parameters for every dot. Best to be used for non-photo quality images and short animations, images that need to preserve sharp edges, as GIF is loose less format with no compression. JPG/JPEG – expanded as Joint Photographic Experts Group. Initially invented to store photographic quality images as supports up to 16926659444736 colours. It became popular in web because of it compression possibility thus reducing size. As well as gif – is supported by almost every browser. Unfortunately it looses quality when compressed. Does not support transparency or animation. Best to be used for high quality, full colour images. BMP stands for Windows BitMap. Very heavy when comes to terms of size. For a long time been used as MS Windows (pre Y2K) graphic format (i.e. as desktop wallpapers) as was the only one supported by windows. For a long time was supported by Internet Explorer only, thus not so popular in websites. It is raster format with no compression and can save photo quality images. PNG – stands for Portable Network Graphics. Initially invented to replace GIF. It’s advantage to GIF is that PNG can store photographic quality images (i.e. 16926659444736 colours), as well as GIF it supports transparency and can be interlaced, but PNG can not store animation. PNG uses loose less compression thus can be used alongside with JPG. PNG is supported by most graphic web browsers. TIF/TIFF – stands for Tagged Image File Format. Initially created to store uncompressed images, which is similar to BMP. Difference is that TIF was supported by Windows as well as by Mac so it became more popular for image storage. Now it uses loose less compressions. Most popular ones are LZW and ZIP algorithms for TIF compression. Because of its big size, it is not used in websites and little (if any) browser can support this format. Due to its ability to store high quality images and support by most Graphic Software Packages as well as Operating Systems it became de facto standard in publishing. That’s it for know folks
QUOTE(moldboy @ Jan 13 2006, 06:29 PM)  let me see if I read this right could you explain your rationelle for saying this, If you REALLY want to slow down the loading of your site, or not let it load at all in some browsers use .bmp's and stear away from the jpg's and jpeg's Just for the sake of arguing and to make sure I havn't been mislead I decided to take a 640 x 480 image (that just so happens to be of a fish tank) and saved it once as a bmp, and once as a jpg, so I shall releate my advice if you want your site to load fast DON'T USE .BMP!!! the file was 900kb which on my fancy internet connection (dial-up) would take up to 3 minutes to load, the jpg was ~200kb which on a good day could take less then 1 minute to load. BMPs aren't really suggested. PNG works for me. Less size, but it's also a lossless image format. JPG is probably the best bet, although you risk some loss of image quality. Some programs allow you to select the JPG's artifacting rate, if I recall correctly. You can't go wrong with GIF, but make sure you have the right program to save as Graphic Interface Format, because you can risk a loss of pallette which will make the image look really weird. Also, consider making everything nice and simple, without 1,000 images loading at once on each page. Not only will it slow down the loading time, but it will kill your bandwith. If you have some images you want to show on your site for people to view that aren't directly related to the background or layout, consider using a program or just using even MSPaint to thumbnail the image in quest. CTRL+A or selecting an area, followed by CTRL+W can allow you to select how much percent smaller you want the image to be. Also, don't be afraid to use tiling background images or less colored ones with the CSS specifying how it will tile. Hopefully, this will help you out and all. On another note, forcing background music is a bad choice and will slow down the page's loading rate. If possible, try having them linked to or something like that. I hope that helps you out.
well... most of the tips points to the main and biggest upload time issue - graphics. That’s true - the less images there are on the website, the faster it loads. it applies to Flash, sounds, embedded videos and so on.
The reason for that is hidden in the basics of the way websites work. I hope that will let you to get a general video, what makes websites load slowly. So, when one enters address for a website, browser sends query to a server and server returns requested web page. Prior to viewing the page at users screen it has to be downloaded into its hard drive, so all images, flash animations and so on are downloaded and only then displayed. I bet you've downloaded mp3 before and how ho long it takes to get one file. that is it. Other point seems to be missing in this thread. it is code optimisation. First of all, if you use any scripting language - you have to try to make your code to do only necessary things. If you use PHP you could optimise your code with Zend or free tool TurckMMCache. These tools will precompile your php code, so when user will request php page you will save time on compiliong it in server prior to display. Secondly - you should try to use as little queries to databases as possible. Reason for that is web server and database server are separate, though they might run on the same machine. For that reason every query you make counts as connection to another server and increases unwanted load time. Hope it helped you.
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