Digital Envisions

Every year, more and more users switch to broadband every year but even so, a large portion of the web’s population is still running on good old dialup connections. Counting them out of the equation is therefore unwise when you’re designing your own website and we have to make a major consideration for dialup users which is the loading time of your website.

Even on a dialup connection, all the text on your website will be loaded in a very short time. Large images on your website is the culprit of sites that are slow to load, and striking a delicate balance between using just enough images to attract your users is important and not to bog down the overall loading of your site.

On your site, you should also go to a greater length and optimize every image to make sure it loads the least time possible. What I really mean is to use image editing software to remove unnecessary information on your images, and thereby effectively reducing the file size of your image without affecting its appearance.

If you own Photoshop, it will be obvious to you that when you save an image as a JPEG file, a dialog box appears and lets you choose the “quality” of the JPEG image — normally a setting of 8 to 10 is good enough as it will preserve the quality of your image while saving it at a small file size. But even if you don’t have Photoshop, there are still many free image compressors online which you can download and use in order for the file size of your image to be reduced.

To get the best quality at the best file size, another thing you can do is opt to save your images in PNG format. Saving your images in GIF format is also possible since the image editing software would clip away all the color information that are not used in your image and so you’ll be given the smallest file size possible. But make your choice wisely since saving in GIF format will often compromise the appearance of your image.

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