slow pages

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Hi everyone!

Well I'm a relative newbie to the world of web design and Frontpage 2003. I have built a web approx. 300 pages, it's a pretty simple and straight forward layout, nothing fancy. However, I noticed that Frontpage has noted the "slow pages" in my web. I have one image on every page, and an average of 300-400 words of text as well. Frontpage has identified appox. 40 "slow pages" most of which average about 35-40 seconds. First question is: Is the average time on my slow pages pretty much an acceptable speed or is there anything that I can do to speed them up? And how? Without taking out the images and/ or text. Is there possibly anything else that could be making them "slow pages"? Thanks in advance to everyone.

Henry Contreras

 

[=?iso-8859-1?Q?Crash_Gordon=AE?=]

Un-optimized images will slow the pages down.
List one of the URLs for a better answer...


| Hi everyone!
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| Well I'm a relative newbie to the world of web design and Frontpage 2003. I have built a web approx. 300 pages, it's a pretty simple and straight forward layout, nothing fancy. However, I noticed that Frontpage has noted the "slow pages" in my web. I have one image on every page, and an average of 300-400 words of text as well. Frontpage has identified appox. 40 "slow pages" most of which average about 35-40 seconds. First question is: Is the average time on my slow pages pretty much an acceptable speed or is there anything that I can do to speed them up? And how? Without taking out the images and/ or text. Is there possibly anything else that could be making them "slow pages"? Thanks in advance to everyone.
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| Henry Contreras

 

[Tom Pepper Willett]

"Slow Pages" is relative to the connection speed of the visitor. Hard to
say. If it's based upon 56k, yes, it's high.

You can optimize your images in your image/graphics editor to bring them to
a smaller file size, which is usually the problem.


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message | Hi everyone!
|
| Well I'm a relative newbie to the world of web design and Frontpage 2003.
I have built a web approx. 300 pages, it's a pretty simple and straight
forward layout, nothing fancy. However, I noticed that Frontpage has noted
the "slow pages" in my web. I have one image on every page, and an average
of 300-400 words of text as well. Frontpage has identified appox. 40 "slow
pages" most of which average about 35-40 seconds. First question is: Is the
average time on my slow pages pretty much an acceptable speed or is there
anything that I can do to speed them up? And how? Without taking out the
images and/ or text. Is there possibly anything else that could be making
them "slow pages"? Thanks in advance to everyone.
|
| Henry Contreras

 

[Mark Fitzpatrick]

For a dialup user, 35 to 40 seconds is not tollerable and they will most
likely leave well before then. Target as close to 60 seconds as possible if
you can.

Check the images on these pages and see if perhaps there is a way to tweak
them. JPG images can have increased compression, it's just a battle of
quality versus size of the file. GIF images can have their color pallette
reduced and esspecially use an adaptive pallette.

Hope this helps,
Mark FItzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage

Hi everyone!

Well I'm a relative newbie to the world of web design and Frontpage 2003.

I have built a web approx. 300 pages, it's a pretty simple and straight
forward layout, nothing fancy. However, I noticed that Frontpage has noted
the "slow pages" in my web. I have one image on every page, and an average
of 300-400 words of text as well. Frontpage has identified appox. 40 "slow
pages" most of which average about 35-40 seconds. First question is: Is the
average time on my slow pages pretty much an acceptable speed or is there
anything that I can do to speed them up? And how? Without taking out the
images and/ or text. Is there possibly anything else that could be making
them "slow pages"? Thanks in advance to everyone.

 

[=?iso-8859-1?Q?Crash_Gordon=AE?=]

Mark, either your math or your logic is off...


| For a dialup user, 35 to 40 seconds is not tollerable and they will most
| likely leave well before then. Target as close to 60 seconds as possible if
| you can.
|
| Check the images on these pages and see if perhaps there is a way to tweak
| them. JPG images can have increased compression, it's just a battle of
| quality versus size of the file. GIF images can have their color pallette
| reduced and esspecially use an adaptive pallette.
|
| Hope this helps,
| Mark FItzpatrick
| Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
|
|
| message | > Hi everyone!
| >
| > Well I'm a relative newbie to the world of web design and Frontpage 2003.
| I have built a web approx. 300 pages, it's a pretty simple and straight
| forward layout, nothing fancy. However, I noticed that Frontpage has noted
| the "slow pages" in my web. I have one image on every page, and an average
| of 300-400 words of text as well. Frontpage has identified appox. 40 "slow
| pages" most of which average about 35-40 seconds. First question is: Is the
| average time on my slow pages pretty much an acceptable speed or is there
| anything that I can do to speed them up? And how? Without taking out the
| images and/ or text. Is there possibly anything else that could be making
| them "slow pages"? Thanks in advance to everyone.
| >
| > Henry Contreras
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