Image Optimization Reducing Your Load Time
Even though more and more Internet users switch to broadband every year, 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. The culprit of slow-loading sites is mainly large images on your website, and it is very important to strike a delicate balance between using just enough images to attract your users and not to bog down the overall loading time 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 this means is using the image editing software in order for unnecessary information on your images to be removed and so it will be effective to reduce the file size of your image without affecting the appearance.
If you have Photoshop, then when you save an image as a JPEG file, it will be obvious to you that a dialog box appears and lets you choose the quality of the JPEG image and the normally a good enough setting is 8 to 10 because it will preserve the quality of your image and save it all at a small file size at the same time. If you want to reduce the file size of your image but you don't have Photoshop, don't worry because there are still many free image compressor which you can check out online and download.
Another thing you can do is opt to save your images in PNG format in order to get the best quality at the best file size. You can also save your images in GIF format and you'll be given the smallest file size possible because the image editing software will clip away all the color information not used in your image. But often compromising the appearance of your image is saving in GIF format which is why you should make your choice wisely.
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