Good Morning,
We are pretty much done with the website. I’ve received some great help from Caleb Grove at Backdraft.com which was instrumental in helping me create a website.
I could use some honest feedback and remember I am not a professional web creator so lighten up just a little. LOL
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Bill
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Hi Bill,
The page loaded very s-l-o-w-l-y for me so I ran it through the GTMetrix performance tool at http://gtmetrix.com http://gtmetrix.com/ . You may want to take a look.
Todd
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Thanks for the feedback Todd.
What is very slowly? Is it a webmaster professional opinion or an end-user opinion. 
I did the speed test in the link provided and I got an F on pictures, but that’s beyond my capability to compress or do something for them to load faster.
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I agree about page load but on the whole a good experience.
However you need to fine tune your mobile layout as there are big gaps under the header image and also under the synergy/success image.
But what is worse is the text overlap ‘Virtual Administrative…’ on top of the following quote from Ron White
Also the styling on LDP’s testimonial doesn’t match the one above.
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Both, I guess. But mostly as an end-user.
I almost left before the page loaded at around 12 seconds. Granted there could be several other factors at play besides your site or server, or it could be a one-time thing. One person is not enough to make a definitive statement. Still, there are probably some performance-related aspects that could be improved based on the GTMetrix score.
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I got an F on pictures, but that’s beyond my capability to compress or do something for them to load faster.
No it isn’t.
You have a basic tool in your arsenal called Preview that you can use to reduce image sizes very easily.
Open one of your images in Preview (noting its file size in the Finder first) - now do a Save As or Export (depending on your OS) and note under the Type picker there is a quality slider and below that a Projected File Size.
Now adjust that Quality Slider to get the file size down, give it a new name and load it into your page for testing.
D
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Thank you everyone.
I have tried to get the styling on the LDP quote to work but it’s not. I’m going to delete that module and put in a new one to see if it was just corrupt.
Thank again, I really do appreciate it.
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On 20 Jun 2015, 10:41 pm, DeltaDave wrote:
I got an F on pictures, but that’s beyond my capability to compress or do something for them to load faster.
No it isn’t.
You have a basic tool in your arsenal called Preview that you can use to reduce image sizes very easily.
Open one of your images in Preview (noting its file size in the Finder first) - now do a Save As or Export (depending on your OS) and note under the Type picker there is a quality slider and below that a Projected File Size.
Now adjust that Quality Slider to get the file size down, give it a new name and load it into your page for testing.
D
Dave, that’s a great hint about using Preview. Have you found that to be as effective as some online tools such as Image Optimizer? Preview is certainly faster and easier.
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Dave, that’s a great hint about using Preview. Have you found that to be as effective as some online tools such as Image Optimizer? Preview is certainly faster and easier.
As a last step, I always run my graphics (especially .pngs) through ImageOptim. It’s free, fast, OS X native, and easy.
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Caleb, you say “as a last step.” Do you first compress them in Preview, then us ImageOptimizer? Up to the present, I’ve only used ImageOptimizer, but not Preview. Is a two-step process best (compress in Preview > then ImageOptimizer)?
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Please, don’t ever compress an image more than once. Always start from a high-quality original in an uncompressed format (TIFF, PNG, PSD). When you compress a file in any of the lossy formats (JPEG, especially) you introduce visible artifacts in the file. Depending on the amount of compression, these can be quite visible. When you compress an already compressed format, you end up adding artifacts on top of those artifacts, because the compression algorithm can’t tell the difference between the artifacts and actual detail. (These artifacts usually cluster around areas of high contrast and detail.)
Walter
On Jun 21, 2015, at 2:00 AM, Jim Feeney email@hidden wrote:
Caleb, you say “as a last step.” Do you first compress them in Preview, then us ImageOptimizer? Up to the present, I’ve only used ImageOptimizer, but not Preview. Is a two-step process best (compress in Preview > then ImageOptimizer)?
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Thank you again for your help. All gaps have been fixed. photos optimized (I think but I’m not going to worry too much about it).
If you would please have another look?
I will be back soon enough. I’m going to put a wordpress on a second page and will probably need help. I’m only use to having it be on the master page.
Thanks again
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