How do I get my images & pages to load faster?

[TERRELL]

How do I get me images & pages to load faster?

[msherman]

Only real way you can get them to load faster is by decreasing their size. Save them in 256 color, have a smaller picture on your site...etc

That should help

[Ronski]

I've seen a lot of people make the mistake of changing the width and height parameters of their IMG SRC lines in the HTML code, thinking this would make the images smaller and faster loading.

Nope. Won't do it.

You have to actually make the images themselves smaller in a graphics program. And if you're using JPGs, try for 20x compression (or greater). That's what I normally use.

[Rick_E]

Make sure you are using JPG or GIF images, not BMP or TIFF. A reasonable image file size is 10KB for small images and 40KB for large images.

Many editing programs such as Microsoft Photo Editor let you specify the amount of JPG compression. More compression = smaller file size = less quality.

For simple drawings GIF may be best, for photos JPG is best.

Limit the number of images on a page to a reasonable number.