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Provide Images Without Sacrifying Speed

Leva Duell

Visitors like pictures without sacrificing speed. Your web site’s loading speed has a significant impact on your visitors' loyalty. A slow web site will cost you sales. Apply these techniques to speed up your pages, keep potential buyers at your site, and increase sales.

Apply these tips to optimize your images and speed up your web pages:

  • Keep images and graphics as small as possible, both in dimensions and file size. The larger the file size, the longer the images take to download.
  • Use images that support your sales message. Avoid large and unnecessary graphics, animated graphics, sound, movies, Flash animation, and advertising banners -- especially on your home page. (Graphics slow your web pages down considerably.)
  • Don’t make visitors wait for images they’re not interested in. If you want to illustrate your products with large images, provide thumbnails (small graphics), and let visitors decide if they want to click on them to view larger images that take time to download.
  • Crop images (cut off extra areas around the images).
  • Keep the resolution of your images to 72 dpi, the maximum resolution a computer monitor can read.
  • Reduce your file size by saving images in the proper graphic format (GIF or JPEG).
  • Reduce the number of colors. Use solid colors rather than gradients. The more color in an image, the bigger the file size is, and the more time it takes to download.

Graphic Resource: Paint Shop Pro is a popular, inexpensive graphic program to design and edit your images. You can download a trial version at http://www.jasc.com.

Pictures can instantly improve the look of your web site but you won't want them to slow down your size. Use relevant pictures that suppport your sales message and make sure they're optimized.

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