Slow Pages

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Armond Perretta

I am (still) working on

www.photohaven.com/hotweb/

and I have gotten some good help in this forum. I'll try again.

The home page contains a drop down menu, a JavaScript slide show, and a few
images. The web structure is based on DWT pages and "nested" included
pages. This structure seems to have resulted in slow pages on a standard
dial-up. Looks OK on cable and DSL connection, of course.

Questions: (a) Is there any way to test page speed without actually using a
dial-up, (b) is there another method to address this without building
separate "dial-up" and "broadband" webs, and (c) are "nested" includes
necessarily slow?
 
The slow pages have nothing to do with includes. The problem is the number
and file size of the images.
You really should use an image editor and resize / resample the images to
the actual size you are using on your pages, because even though you specify
and image height and width on a page, the full size image is downloaded from
the server.
For example, the digital processing center image at the bottom of the page
is only displayed at 47 by 50 pixels. The image downloaded to display it is
400 by 415 pixels and 135kb in file size.

The free utility named IrfanView will do an excellent job of resizing
images.
( You might also try reducing color depth which will reduce file size, but I
would resample / resize first and check the difference.)

hth

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed..................
...............................with a computer
 
To expound upon what Steve said...IrFranView is awesome and easy to use (and free) - most importantly you can batch process...resize, rename, resample etc..multiple pix all in one shot...EASILY.


| I am (still) working on
|
| www.photohaven.com/hotweb/
|
| and I have gotten some good help in this forum. I'll try again.
|
| The home page contains a drop down menu, a JavaScript slide show, and a few
| images. The web structure is based on DWT pages and "nested" included
| pages. This structure seems to have resulted in slow pages on a standard
| dial-up. Looks OK on cable and DSL connection, of course.
|
| Questions: (a) Is there any way to test page speed without actually using a
| dial-up, (b) is there another method to address this without building
| separate "dial-up" and "broadband" webs, and (c) are "nested" includes
| necessarily slow?
|
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| Good luck and good sailing.
| s/v Kerry Deare of Barnegat
| http://kerrydeare.home.comcast.net/
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