Speed of website

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by rjd1265, Aug 10, 2010.

  1. #1
    I have a few sites but they seem to load quickly. I contacted go daddy and they said i am using about 1% of my space so that was not the issue.

    How can i get my site to load its pictures more quickly?
     
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  2. razet93

    razet93 Greenhorn

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    Firstly compress the size of your pictures using any image compressor software.
    After compressing images you should upload images. it will surely reduce load time of images in your site...
     
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  3. CSM

    CSM Active Member

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    Hey there.

    Could you provide a link to your website?
     
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  4. rjd1265

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    They are both in my signature
     
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    I am not sure on this, but I have heard by many different sources that Godaddy is slow, I have heard they are getting slower as they go, whether this is true or not I can not say from experience, just from others that have used them, other hosts have also said they are using single servers to house thousands of users and over selling their resources. If this is the case it may be that a faster hosting provider could help. Making sure that your pictures are of a decent size also helps, don't use photos that come straight out of a camera without condensing the size, check your images between the different formats i.e. .gif, .jpg, .png etc...

    Hope this helps a little.
     
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  6. CSM

    CSM Active Member

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    You should definately compress every graphic you use.

    Your site is 511.5 KB.

    http://www.remove-stretchmarks.com/images/Ryan.jpg is 204.2KB... wow, that is a lot!

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    As you can see many of the onlywire.com graphics/scripts are uncompressed.

    This graphic is useless I would say:

    http://www.remove-stretchmarks.com/images/img0006.gif

    Dimensions: 760x4500 pixles... white background, nothing more.

    Michael
     
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  7. rjd1265

    rjd1265 Active Member

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    so can i just compress my pics with the software and maintain the clearness of them?

    and CSM, that list pic you listed is my white background as an image...should i just delete that and insert a single cell table instead with a white background?
     
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  8. CSM

    CSM Active Member

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    I would do so.
     
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