Hi all, I have recently designed my portfolio site www.gvambedkar.com. I used a banner image, which is 160 KB size taking too much download time. Can anyone suggest me to compress/optimize the image or any other way to overcome this issue. Thanks in advance.
160KB is fine. Your site loads quickly enough for me (I'm in AU on a pathetic connection). Nice site design btw If you really want to reduce the filesize, just open it in something like Photoshop, and reduce the JPEG quality %.
If you want to keep a sense of quality about the image use Photoshop and select Save for web or mobile. If you don't have Photoshop there is a program called Riot that helps compress your images.
you can try irfanview, save as jpeg and control the file size use quality percentage adjuster.. or save as gif..
160 kb is good size... now culture is change people demand web 2.0 style.. What the DSL speed you using?