| Studies have shown that if a web site takes more | | | | of your graphics in your HTML code. This means that |
| than 8-10 seconds to load on a 56k modem then you | | | | every IMG tag should have the WIDTH and HEIGHT |
| risk losing the visitor. This means that the web page | | | | attributes specified. If web browsers don't have to |
| design needs to be less than 30 kilobytes in size. | | | | figure out the dimensions of your graphics, they can |
| Web surfers hate to wait for slow loading web | | | | already display placeholders and start displaying the |
| pages. | | | | text of your web page before loading the graphics |
| If your web pages don't load fast enough, many | | | | from the server. |
| web surfers will go away without taking a look at | | | | Spread out your content: In case you find yourself |
| them. No matter how great your product is: if your | | | | having very long pages of content, break them down |
| web site is not fast enough, web surfers won't see | | | | into separate sections and thus bring down the sizes |
| it. Fast loading web pages are crucial if you want to | | | | of the individual pages. |
| sell something on the Internet. There are several | | | | Make the top of your page interesting: If a web |
| things you can do to speed up your site. Of course, | | | | page takes a long time to load, make sure that the |
| you should make sure that your web host provides | | | | top of the page contains something interesting |
| fast and reliable servers. In addition to hosting your | | | | because visitors will see that part first. |
| web site on a fast server, you can do the following | | | | Optimize your HTML code: Make sure that your site |
| to improve the loading time of your web pages: | | | | doesn't have any unwanted tags and that it is |
| Reduce the number of graphics:A large number of | | | | optimized. |
| graphics on your web pages can considerably slow | | | | Divide your tables: Web pages that use a single large |
| down your page. For each graphic on your web page, | | | | layout table take a long time to render in web |
| the web browser has to make another connection to | | | | browsers. Break up huge tables into several smaller |
| your server. If you cannot reduce the number of | | | | ones. |
| graphics on your web page, then try to combine | | | | Specify the dimensions of your tables If you specify |
| several graphics to a single bigger one. Use the same | | | | the WIDTH and HEIGHT attributes for your tables, |
| graphics on your other web pages so that web | | | | then web browsers don't have to load the complete |
| browsers can load the graphics from the browser | | | | table code to calculate the dimensions of the table. |
| cache. | | | | Double check cell widths:Take a moment to check |
| Optimize all heavy files: As much as possible optimize | | | | the individual widths of each table cell. If the total is |
| heavy graphics, Flash files and scripts. In editors like | | | | more than the specified table width, then web |
| fireworks and flash you can see the various options | | | | browsers will have problems displaying your table. |
| in the preview panel to reduce the sizes. See how | | | | It's important to know the download times of your |
| popular web sites like google and yahoo have pages | | | | web pages. In general, your home page should load in |
| that are very small in size and thus load in seconds. | | | | 20 seconds on a dial-up connection and the top of |
| Specify the dimensions of your graphics: Always | | | | your page should be displayed within 5-8 seconds. |
| make sure to include the height and width dimensions | | | | |