That's right ? How to speed up my website load time ? I heard something about load images from css, but I don't know how it's done ! Waiting for your answers ! Thanks in advance
long stories short: - maximize use of CSS, minimize use of bitmaps (menu nouseovers, etc.) - optimize images, use gifs where possible, they are smaller and nicer - remove excessive spaces and empty lines - save every single byte where possible - use short class names, links, etc.
the site is in my signature ! how to load images from css ???? I've found only images backgrounds in css !
Optimize larger images for web use if you can. Referencing them inside CSS does not make a difference, they still need to load. Example: .className { background-image: url('path/to/image.gif'); } Code (markup): Agreed, changing to a faster host (maybe one closer to your physical location) can be a solution, too.
Id look at your hostig and band width first if you already use CSS. I'm changing myself at the moment for the same reason if you are interested pm me and I'll give you the details. Which site in your sig did you mean?
my images are gif and I think they are well optimized for the web ... if I will decrease the size the quality also will be decreasing Connection Rate Download Time 14.4K 144.68 seconds 28.8K 75.64 seconds 33.6K 65.78 seconds 56K 42.11 seconds ISDN 128K 17.47 seconds T1 1.44Mbps 7.54 seconds these are my statstics for a web page load check : what do you think of them ?
you can optimize images without total loss of quality - it's absolutely do-able also if you have any huge images they should be sliced and optimized into smaller chunks eta: that download time IS way too much - I would say you need to aim for under 10 second loading time at 28.8 web user stats show that 10 seconds is the MAXIMUM most users will wait for a page to download also, you have many images on your site that should be gifs instead of jpegs which I'm sure is taking up ridiculous amounts of space if you optimize properly you should be able to get that download time waaaaay down vanessa.
I heard this somewhere... and I may get shot down! The more files you have in your root directory - the slower the website runs, I may be wrong... but when I heard it, it did prompt me to clean up my directories... which in turn is handy anyway because I can find things a whole lot easier than before.
you need to get the times WAY down! I clicked on the first link in your sig and on my 10Meg cable it took like 45seconds. Your host may be a bit on the slow side as well. If I go to any site it needs to load in under 3 seconds or I don't bother.... A speed check on your site reveals a couple of things - the site as-is can be optomised - and the images are only 1 area - 33 images make up the page. The html that makes up your page is massive! I always aim for pages under 6K in size and yours is like 50K. You could eliminate heaps of the html by coding it as css with divs and getting rid of the tables.
Using the firefox 'web developer' plugin, most of your loading time is connected with loading your webdata.js script. Your images are not too large, so will not really affect the speed of your page loading compared to your javescript file. Perhaps you could use a different script to webdata.js? See below for the a summary of the output. Documents (1 file) 57 kb Images (30 files) 102 kb Objects (0 files) Scripts (2 files) 2556 kb --> webdata.js 2542 kb Style Sheets (1 file) 177 bytes Total 2716 kb I hope this helps!