Web Page Takes a Long Time to Load

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Hi,
I’m new to Freeway, wondering if I could get some suggestions from the advanced users. I thought Freeway is supposed to automatically resize images for quick loading. Perhaps I interpreted the documentation wrong. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions? www.kanemag.com

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Big things I see taking a bit to load is a flash file called, “Headliner.swf” running in around 700/KB. You could compress (we’re talking file size, not a quality loss) that and run it even at a smaller file-size.

Most of these “S” series images are around 100-250kb which can take a while to load up. You might want to see if you can adjust these images in Photoshop or adjusting the slider bar in your Document Settings in Freeway to be around 75%-80% quality. You can adjust on a per-image basis by selecting the image in Freeway and in the inspector adjust the slider individually.

Those are the big things I see causing a slow load time.

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Mitchell, thanks for the suggestions! I’ll try changing my images to gif instead of jpeg.

I’m new to Flash also, how do I go about compressing “Headliner.swf”?

Thanks for your help.

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In your publish settings in Flash there is a check box, i believe in the second tab over, that says, “Compress Movie.” Make sure not to goto “Save and Compress” in the File Menu cause that’s given me problems. Then republish, and update the file in Freeway.

It’s okay to leave things as JPG’s, you just need to either “Save for Web” and try to get your files as low of a file size without putting too much of a damper on quality. Sometimes this works just fine, but when you get into dealing with gradients and what-not it can sometimes make your images look bad.

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Or change the output quality of your graphics in Freeway.

In File>Document Setup>Graphics there are various options to set jpeg quality, progressive or not etc.

If you don’t have progressive checked then try it - that is one sure way of getting your pages to load quicker.

But experiment - as Mitchell says - you don’t have to make system-wide changes you can alter particular images in the inspector.

David

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