I have been told that the pictures on my website need to be optimized and I'm planning to do that. No one has mentioned the Scrabble Ozzie Logo that I'm using. I'm wondering if it is also a problem that contributes to slow loading of my site. I would appreciate it if you have the time to take a look and comment. This logo was a gift from a friend so I would love to keep it but only if it isn't a site problem. Thanks.
Hi Ozzie, yes 132Kb is a bit heavy for a logo. I managed to get it down to 50Kb but then you lose some colour! 70K and you get to keep the blue:
I visited your site Ozzie and it wasn't a problem at all for me. However, in all fairness to those on dial-up connections, I am on a broadband connection. As for your Scrabble logo, it's 131k in size and frankly, I don't see you being able to optimize that any since it's animated. Your site really isn't loaded with a lot of images and I'd hate to see you lose that logo as well. It's cool! hooperman beat me in posting! He did a GREAT job in cutting down the size of your animated logo!
Thank you both for your comments and your help. How can the size of the logo be cut down yet the size looks about the same? This is something that I don't understand at all!
You can compress images using graphics applications like Fireworks (and other Adobe apps). The more you compress, the more the image quality degrades, but sometimes you can get the file size down whilst still retaining satisfactory quality. It's voodoo magic
Damn - loaded with blink of eye. I am not sure what your visitors use (dialup/high-speed/t1-t3). I am on T3 right now and it was literally blink of eye and your site loaded.
It's a lot for a logo, to be honest. Eventhough it loaded very fast for me as well. I'm on a 5mbit dsl connection. I use Fireworks and imageready to optimize my logos. Check out this page for a speed report on your site. good luck.
Optimised .gif logo looking good. Almost it is half of the original size. Though quality degraded but it can't be noticed. Good help hooperman.
Thank you so much Hooperman. I just posted about how I would get these new versions and in making this reply I can see the information that I need. You did a great job and I really appreciate it.
Right click on image and select the "save picture as.." option from dropdown menu and save it to your computer drive.
Thank you, I think it's great. How do I get this on my site? I know I can use the tessafun url but couldn't that go down at any point and I'd lose my design, er your design? Again, I think it is very good and I like it.
Hi Ozzie! I love your logo! I have the dreaded Dial Up connection and it loaded in about 2 seconds for me. Looks great!
Thank you so much AngelaR. The thanks really go to a good friend of mine but I'll pass it on to him. I have really enjoyed using the logo.