Hello all, I got the redesign done for http://www.seofreelancing.com/ I like the design but the page loads too slow. Especially the top header. I am not using any flash or high five graphics or multimedia. Could you please point out the elements I need to remove to make the page actually load faster without sacrificing in the same look and feel. I need help to make the site load faster as I am not very fluent Coder. Thanks, Hemanth
It goes pretty quick here, not extremely fast, but not painfully slow. I would make the background smaller. That should help and it'll look the same. Also, when the page loads it automatically loads the rollovers (I think) so that might be why it takes a little bit longer.
Yeah.. it loads damn slow here too. SEO tip - never make a website load so slow that it hurts your SEO.
It loads a bit slow for me too. I noticed that a lot of your images are huge in file size. I wouldn't convert them to another format or drop the quality of the image from 100% down to 90% or 80%. The difference is minimal in terms of visual appearance but the file size will drop dramatically. I show your SEO Services (middle left) to be 61kb but your main header image shows at 57kb. That's 118kb right there and that's not counting your navigation and section header buttons. The site looks great! Awesome use of color and not too busy - my kind of site! Somehow reduce the file size of your images and your page will load faster.
Site loads in about 4 seconds on my cable connection. As others have said, convert images to smaller files for best results
Thank you all. Initially the header was too big. I have reduced the Header size to almost half by converting the image from JPEG to GIF. Which do you think is a better approach. Converting from JPEG to GIF or reducing the quality of JPEG. If someone can help me with CSS rollovers for hovering effect that would be great. I could inturn help you with my SEO Skills. I am pretty week at design skills so design modifications by you is really appreciated. I am an SEO expert and hence can you help there.
It goes pretty quick here, not extremely fast, but not painfully slow. For CSS you can refer htmldog and alistapart. w3c also has some good tutorials. Its just some hover pseudo class that you have to apply.
Use Photoshop click 'file' and click 'save for web'. New window will pop up and you can save as medium jpeg... almost always is smaller size than gif and just as good quality.
I am using Irfanview and saving the file to Gif. Is that a good approach as I currently dont have Photoshop installed.
Hi all, What do you think about the site now. I have resized most of the images by saving it into a gif. Should there be more improvement. Regards, Hemanth