how can i make my website load faster when vistors come to my site?

Question

i have some jpg but not many

Answer 1

Previous answer is good with JPG quality compress, format tags, style sheets, etc.

I would also suggest the following:

1) Anywhere you can, create an actual thumbnail of your image instead of 'resizing' in the img code.
2) Edit your code using notepad or some other 'pure HTML editor' and remove redundant codes. If you use a GUI HTML editor (Dreamweaver, frontpage, Word, etc) you will find tons of unneeded code.
3) Re-evaluate your site look and feel and see if you can reduce the graphical content with out losing the intent/user appeal.

Good luck and I hope this helps!

Answer 2

I would also ask what quality your jpgs are at, 80% is a good number.. just store originals if you need for other uses. Cascading style sheets are good, if you have the time to make them. Here is a link to get you started..

http://www.webmonkey.com/authoring/stylesheets/tutorials/tutorial1.html

A free CSS editor to help you out would be Topstyle found here: http://www.newsgator.com/NGOLProduct.aspx?ProdId=TopStyle&ProdView=lite

A good website editor can help to tell you the true download speed of your page(s) like Adobe Dreamweaver.

http://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver/

A good, free editor: N-View can be found here: http://nvu.com/index.php

Answer 3

compress the pictures to 80 quality 72dpi jpegs.

instead of gifs, use swf's.

upgrade to CSS from you format tags.

Answer 4

without seeing your site it's hard to say.

Make sure you're using CSS as opposed to tables.

Answer 5

switch to paid host instead of hosting it yourself