Although more and more Internet users switch to broadband every year, much of the population of the site is still running on good dial-up connections old. It is therefore prudent to have them out of the equation when designing your website, and a very important consideration that we have to make for dialup users is the loading time of your website.
In general, the entire text on your web site load in a very short time, even on a dial-up connection. The culprit of slow-loading sites is mainly large images on your website, and it is very important to strike a delicate balance between using just enough images to attract users and not to bog down the loading time total of your site.
must also go to greater lengths and image optimize each in place to ensure that the loads in the shortest possible time. What they really mean is to use image editing software to remove unnecessary information on your images, and thus effectively reducing the file size of the image without affecting its appearance.
If you own Photoshop, it will be apparent to you that when you save an image as a JPEG file, a dialog box appears and lets you choose the "quality" JPEG image - normally a setting of 8 to 10 is enough and to preserve image quality while saving a small file size. If you have Photoshop, there are many free image compressors online you can download and use to reduce the size of your image file.
On the other hand, you can choose to save images in PNG format for best quality in less file size. You can also save images in GIF format - clips of image editing software away all the color information not used in the image, therefore, that gives the smallest file size possible. However, the saving in GIF format often compromise the appearance of your image, so your choice wisely!
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