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Author Topic: Website loads really slow, what should I do? HELP!!!  (Read 464 times)
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« on: March 26, 2008, 08:45:14 AM »

Hi,

I have made may graphics smaller because I thought it would help the website to load fast however it still seems to be really slow. Please look at my website http://www.firestonejewelry.net/ &
http://www.firestonejewelry.net/Necklaces.html. Do you know what I can do to make the site run fast?
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« Reply #1 on: March 26, 2008, 08:48:14 AM »

Well first the first link, I would say the major problem would be the flash graphic, seems to take the longest to load. With the secondary link, what sizes are the images you are using?  You might want to resize them down to something a little more "web friendly" or use thumbnail images to link to the bigger images.  Hope that helps!
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« Reply #2 on: March 26, 2008, 09:49:18 AM »

Are you perhaps using the full size image and then just having it display at your smaller size?  For example on one of the images, when I do "properties" from the right click menu it shows the image properties as 70px by 170px.  However, when I do "View Image" from the right click menu, it renders as 214 x 546.  That tells me that you are using your markup to display it at the smaller size, but the image is really the larger size. Seems like that means that you have to load all the larger images for the page to display.  Try creating a series of thumbnail images and linking them to the larger images.  I use Easy Thumbnails that will let you set, say the width for all of them and leave the height to be proportionate.  (http://www.fookes.com/ezthumbs/

I am sure there are many other software programs that would do a similar thing. That gives you easy to manage thumbnail images that shouldn't take as long to load as the larger images. Just my 2 cents.... I am not an expert, just struggling along myself.

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« Reply #3 on: March 26, 2008, 04:10:09 PM »

Thank you for all of your help. Clapping  I working on all of your ideas right now. Thumbs Up Good luck with all of your website building!  Very Happy
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