I’ve only got a 1.5mb broadband speed but this page seems to load very slowly. It know it has a fading slideshow and css sprite rollovers, but is there any way I can speed up the loading without removing these?
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Neil,
The initial load was a just a little slow - if one wasn’t looking for it, you wouldn’t notice it.
Reloading loading the page is fine.
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Just to clarify, I do mean what changes I can make in FW not in the browser etc!
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Thanks Bryan, unfortunately the client also thinks it’s a little slow.
BTW the reply above wasn’t aimed at you - we must have posted at the same time!
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We don’t have a very fast connection over here and the loading was really ok even for the first time. Is the website hosted on a fast sever or is this shared hosting? Paying a bit more for your hosting usually also speeds up things a lot.
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Thanks DTP2
It’s the client’s server so I don’t have any control over the hosting, but I’ll make a point of asking if they decide it is too slow for their liking.
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Hi Neil
Loaded fast for me as well onto my iPad
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Deathly slow for me (28sec) - the biggest file on the page is the buttons1.png at 670Kb - which is a bit too large!
Strangely enough Web Inspector tells me that 22s of that was the HTML
Dont ask me what that means
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Hi Neil,
As a test I took your page and changed the sprite rollovers to a JPG from the original PNG which brought the file size down from a rather large 600Kb to 135Kb. I also compressed the 8 slideshow images and saved an average of 120Kb on each by using the free ImageOptim tool (http://imageoptim.pornel.net/).
You can see my compressed version of your home page here;
http://www.freewayactions.com/test/design-direct/
Once you compress all of the images on your own server you should see the overall page size drop and the page load speed increase.
Regards,
Tim.
On 6 Jun 2011, at 13:05, neil.west1 wrote:
I’ve only got a 1.5mb broadband speed but this page seems to load very slowly. It know it has a fading slideshow and css sprite rollovers, but is there any way I can speed up the loading without removing these?
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Thank you all for your input - obviously we’ve all got different impressions of the speed, but I do think it’s slow.
Tim, I had changed the png to a jpeg but not uploaded it yet, but I wasn’t aware of imageoptim which apparently makes the images smaller than the all-singing, all-dancing photoshop - I wouldn’t have expected that! Thanks for your time and advice.
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Hi Neil,
The app is a front end for a number of open source libraries that do some amazing things to crush images down to a fraction of their original sizes. It is always worth visually comparing the final images however as compression is always a trade off between size and quality.
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Tim.
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Tim, I had changed the png to a jpeg but not uploaded it yet, but I wasn’t aware of imageoptim which apparently makes the images smaller than the all-singing, all-dancing photoshop - I wouldn’t have expected that! Thanks for your time and advice.
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by using the free ImageOptim tool
Every little counts - Very nice ! docked.
thanks Tim.
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