Meaning, I'll go to one web site and it'll load all the pictures in a "comfortable" manner. Whereas, I'll go to a different web site and some pictures get loaded and on different parts of the page. I'm just wondering what they are doing wrong (if anything) and if I can avoid any design mistakes.
2006-06-15 11:15:34 · 6 answers · asked by beginner_gtr 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
How fast images load in your browser depends on two things: the speed of your Internet connection and how large the file size of the image is.
Since broadband Internet is so readily available now, a lot of designers have abandoned the age old art of shrinking files sizes and saving images in web formats. The pictures look great but if you're still using a 56K modem it'll take forever to download.
To avoid this, make sure you use just the amount of pixels you need and a don't depend on the HTML image configuration to resize it for you. Even though the image looks smaller the file size hasn't changed.
Also, you don't need 32-bit color on EVERY image. If you're using Photoshop, use the option that lets you save images for web more often and pay attention to how long it'll take the image to download on a 56K modem.
2006-06-15 11:21:19 · answer #1 · answered by Hector S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Really there are two main factors that can affect web page loading speed. They are:
1. Image and lots of graphics - the more imagery (whether photos or typical graphics) can slow down speed, depending on number of bits and image size
2. Scripts and bugs - Javascript, AJAX components and even web bugs can slow loading speed because with all these extra 'files' to load, bandwidth is devoted to making these.
3. Hardware - even processor speed can affect how efficient your Internet is. If your RAM and CPU are doing many other things at the same time, your browser will not respond as quickly.
Hope this helped,
Redmondinator
2006-06-15 11:31:24 · answer #2 · answered by Redmondinator 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sites that you visit are effected by the amount of traffic the site has along with the systems that are running the site. Try going to the site at off hours & this helps sometimes (like with popular sites like creative labs or HP). Some sites just have crap servers (or their pics are not optimized so the pages take longer to load) & there is nothing you can do as they will always load slow.
2006-06-15 11:29:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In addition to the content on a website, the rendering speed is also affected by the traffic to the website. For example, the website digg.com is a very popular site for techies. There is a huge amount of Internet users trying to download the site at the same time. And, as a result of the enormous amount of traffic, digg's server can't keep up with the traffic, thus causing slow rendering of their website.
2006-06-15 11:30:30 · answer #4 · answered by What the...?!? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pictures can load faster if their size is added to the HTML code. For example, 
will load slower than because in the second one, the width and height are written and it makes it easier for the browser to load the pictures. I think this is what you mean.
2006-06-15 11:19:10 · answer #5 · answered by cl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some web pages have more data that needs to be loaded
2006-06-15 11:16:58 · answer #6 · answered by roger c 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋