Diminishing Load Time Through Picture Optimization
Even though more and more Internet users switch to broadband each year, a great part of the web’s population is still running on good old dialup connections. It is thus injudicious to count them out of the equation when you are designing your website, and a very dominant consideration we have to make for dialup users is the loading time of your website.
Generally, all the text on your website will be loaded in a very short time even on a dialup connection. The fugitive of slow-loading websites is mainly huge photos on your web page, and it is very essential to strike a mild balance between applying just enough pictures to attract your users and not to bog down the overall loading time of your site.
You must also go to a better length and optimize every photograph on your site to make sure it loads in the least time likely. What I really mean is to make use of picture editing software to eliminate unnecessary data on your pictures, and thereby well reducing the file size of your photograph without affecting its appearance.
If you own Photoshop, it will be clear to you that when you save an picture as a JPEG file, a dialog box shows up and lets you determine the “quality” of the JPEG image — usually a setting of 8 to 10 is good enough as it will preserve the quality of your photo while saving it at a little file size. If you do not have Photoshop, there are many free photo compressors online that you can download and utilize to cut your image’s file size.
But then again, you can pick to save your photographs in PNG format to get the best quality at the least file size. You can also save your photographs in GIF format — the photograph editing software clips away all the color details not used in your picture, hence giving you the smallest file size possible. But, saving in GIF format will generally compromise the appearance of your photograph, so make your choice carefully!
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