Need help, HTML tip that did not work

I am trying to get the speed of my pages to load faster. Looking at a HTML tip at http://www.digitalpoint.com/tips/html.html it said to add
<IMG SRC="shawn.jpg" WIDTH=100 HEIGHT=100> to help the SE determine the size and speed things up. I used this on one of my pages in Front Page by clicking on my picture and resizing it and it actually slowed down by a couple of seconds. I tried it several times with the same results. Any suggestions?

 

That's nice to know however a competitors site is using this and his site loads much faster than mine. He has much less on his site but the pictures seem to really fly. Any suggestions?

 

When you say you resized the images within FrontPage are you trying to display, for example, a 640x480 image as a 320x240? By this I mean that the HTML could be telling the browser to show the image as 320x240 when it is in fact 4 times the size (adding to filesize too)?

 

No, my immages are 100 wide x about 90 high but there are several. I went into FP and just barely moved them to get it to put the width and height in for me (I'm lazy and not aware of a faster way besides making it do it on it's own which I did not do originally.) His pictures are larger (190 x 120 @ 12000+ bytes compared to 100 x 80 @4000 bytes) and still load much faster. Here is a link to my site www.northlineexpress.com/rsearch_fireplace_screens.asp
and a link to his site raytechdirect.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=RTD&Category_Code=FP-SC-BLK
take a look and let me know what you think. Might it be because I have a dynamic search at the bottom of my static page and he does not?

 

Is the image actually 100x100? (using your example)

Oops, you answered b4 I had a chance to respond

 

Ok, the first thing I see is that you have something like three thousand images on your page. (slight exaggeration)

A quick check shows that it would take an average of 245 seconds, roughly four minutes, to download your page at 56k. A single page should not take longer than 30 seconds to load and on broadband, reduce that down to 10-12 seconds tops. Otherwise folks are gonna say adios.

Break the images up and since you're using asp, just have it display them dynamically with page forward and back buttons so a person can browse as if it's a catalog.

Hope that helps.

 

yup - pictures 24 to 50 or so......

what is all this code on your page actually doing?
just vie the two page sources and compare
best of luck
M

 

here man try this http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/index.html - it will run a test on your page and give you what you need to improve on to improve loading time

 

If you want to resize your pics you really should do this in an image editor. Doing it with FP or any other html editor only changes the image size on the page (it doesn't change the size of the file).

What image editing program do you use? Most have batch edits that will let you resize groups of photos quickly.

Although sometimes it's worthwhile to go into each photo and do manual compression and resizing. You can avoid getting the jpg "fuzzies" this way. When you cut corners you also cut quality, so just remember that when you feel like being lazy.

It's also worth trying exporting photo files as gifs.