It is widely known that the loading time of websites has a major influence on
the overall user experience. If on the age of 56K Modems people would be willing
to wait even half a minute for a website to load this time span has been
drastically reduced lately. The are market researches, in fact, confirming that
users will just skip a site altogether if it fails to load within 4
seconds.
The first part of the “Speed Up Your Site” series will cover how to optimize
images. Images can create an extra load on the size of your pages, specially if
you forget to optimize them. Photoshop and similar image editing software
include a feature called “Save for the web”. Always use this feature since it
will reduce the image size and load time substantially.
If you do not use an image editing software or if you want something more
practical you can use this online image optimizer
from Dynamic Drive. It will automatically optimize gif, png and jpeg images, and
it will also convert file formats if needed.
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