Tools
You can have great design and content, but if your site takes forever
to load, nobody will come back. There are plenty of other websites that
have just as good content as yours does, but won't put their visitors to
sleep as they wait and wait and wait for pages to load. As stated on my Design
Elements page, over 93% of your visitors probably surf at 56K or
slower. Therefore, you need to have your pages optimized for speed.
Optimize graphics
Gif Wizard scans your website
looking for large graphics. it provides a compression tool that reduces
GIFs, JPGs, and BMPs 90% without sacrificing quality. GIFBot and GIF Works
provide the same service. Ulead Photo
Impact for only $90 is an excellent jpeg optimizer.
Some common sense
One way to make your web page smaller is to make it smaller. Break it
into multiple pages instead of having one very long one.
Your website will load faster if you are on a faster server. Check
out my Hosting page for
recommendations of fast hosts.
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