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Re: Ready for a Critique.....I Think!
Hi, the reason your page will load quick for you is that it is already in your computers cache (Temp storage area) so when you visit the site a 2nd time the page doesn’t have to fully down load all the KB’s again. It is also in my cache now & will also load a lot quicker until my cache is cleared or emptied. But for every 1st time visitor that doesn’t have fast broadband this page will be very slow loading.
I personally would aim at a page being not much larger than 300kb in total.
The problem with the light box is that it makes the thumbnails the same size as the main image & they should really be about 10kb, so apart from using this tool to save a bit of page space there isn’t much point in using it as the page will load in the same time as if it wasn’t used.
With most large images that will pop up, you don’t need them to be any larger than 600x800 @ 250kb max as most monitors won’t show any more quality over this size, & preferably should be a lot smaller.
Have a look at the image & photo tips link bellow, it may help.
Good luck.
Hi, the reason your page will load quick for you is that it is already in your computers cache (Temp storage area) so when you visit the site a 2nd time the page doesn’t have to fully down load all the KB’s again. It is also in my cache now & will also load a lot quicker until my cache is cleared or emptied. But for every 1st time visitor that doesn’t have fast broadband this page will be very slow loading.
I personally would aim at a page being not much larger than 300kb in total.
The problem with the light box is that it makes the thumbnails the same size as the main image & they should really be about 10kb, so apart from using this tool to save a bit of page space there isn’t much point in using it as the page will load in the same time as if it wasn’t used.
With most large images that will pop up, you don’t need them to be any larger than 600x800 @ 250kb max as most monitors won’t show any more quality over this size, & preferably should be a lot smaller.
Have a look at the image & photo tips link bellow, it may help.
Good luck.
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