Website Design Forum

**wallabee80** · 05-19-2010, 08:10 PM

Which IMG-types are you using?
Have you already resized the IMGs or are you doing this inline?

**wallabee80** · 05-19-2010, 08:11 PM

Can you post a link?
Then ill have a look and give my 5 cents

**metho** · 11:43 PM

Checking webpage performance: http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/

Optimising Images: Use Fireworks. No other image optimising program can reduce filesize like Fireworks. The devs are geniuses at getting the most out of png, gif and jpg compression. Try and get image files to be multiples of 512b (packet optimisation).

Header optimisation: remove script js src tags out of the <head> and down to just before the closing </body> tag. Large js files referenced in the header slows down intitial page display.

Reducing webpage objects: strip out inline css and js, combine css and js into single, external files. Combine non-tiling css images into a single sprite images file (ref: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/sprites). This reduces the number of connections to the server required to download the page.

Minify CSS and JS: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/compressor/

Using the above methods, it's not hard to reduce your overall page size by 2/3 and if you can reduce the number of connections required (overall total objects in webpage), this provides the greatest speed performance gain.

**mikejoel** · 05-24-2010, 03:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Knight13

If you are using firefox, their is an add on i heard about called yslow, it will help you make your site faster.

what does yslow do on a certain site? does it help on page loading?

**Marth22** · 05-26-2010, 07:23 PM

If it's got lots of loading speed issues you will want to change your web host, their bandwidth could be too crowded and a more reliable web host will be better.

**rahulraj** · 05-27-2010, 05:06 AM

Hope this video tutorial will help you..
http://www.123computermaster.com/app...ing-page-speed

**thomasallen** · 05-27-2010, 09:34 AM

Caching is a superb way of decreasing the stress on the server by running more static files & less queries. It simply saves a static, HTML version of the page to be displayed & displays that file rather than the dynamic one.

**HandCoder** · 05-27-2010, 09:36 AM

Hard to say without seeing the page...

A few things to check:
- Put javascript at the bottom of your page rather than in the <head> if possible
- If you are running server-side code (PHP/ASP etc...) - is it doing something time-consuming? Could this be done using AJAX after the page has loaded?
- Images/Javascripts/CSS - if possible host these on a Content Delivery Network - I use Amazon CloudFront and S3 and it costs less than £2 a month (more traffic more cost).
- If you have lots of little images for buttons, icons, rollovers etc... look into using sprites
- Use appropriate file formats - JPG for photographs, GIF or PNG for logos & illustrations

If you use a CDN for images your main webhost can be much a cheaper option rather than plumping for an all singing all dancing setup.

If you're using a dedicated server which you manage yourself - watch out for Network cards not running in duplex mode - will make your site run like a tortoise!

As previously stated - post a link - and YSlow is an excellent evaluator for website load time.

Here's a rather excellent article from Yahoo Developers: http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html

**xzbackup** · 05-27-2010, 01:33 PM

For images I use this tool: http://jpegclub.org/

**raman3** · 05-29-2010, 03:18 AM

If I am hosting a website on my computer that people download files from, does the speed they download at depend on my internet connection speed

**HandCoder** · 05-29-2010, 08:37 AM

Yes, its never really a great idea to host a site yourself unless you have a dedicated machine with the server & router on a UPS and a pretty high-speed connection - and a very good firewall!

Back to your question though - yes the rate they can download from you will depend on your UPLOAD speed on your connection.

**janoe0607** · 06-21-2010, 08:42 AM

Don't post a lot of pictures, if you have to post them rezise the pictures before you post them.

**m112** · 06-23-2010, 10:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Knight13

If you are using firefox, their is an add on i heard about called yslow, it will help you make your site faster.

this is what I am using firefox + seo toolbar + page speed add on

its very good - gives you tips what to do

**Phunk Rabbit** · 06-23-2010, 11:13 AM

Minify your javascript and css.

Optimise your HTML.

Optimise your images in Fireworks, Photoshop or whatever software you use (export/save for web - not save as).

Optimise any flash (never reduce image size in flash, always use pre-cropped images in the correct size etc).

put any JS at the end of the page (</body>).

Make sure you are not loading unneeded JS, CSS etc into pages that dont need them.

**xela1966** · 06-23-2010, 11:18 AM

Maybee is nother one but have a look to this one

http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/

**Teknowledge** · 06-29-2010, 03:08 PM

PHP Speedy is a a PHP script which increases the loading times of web pages.

PHP Speedy automatically joins all the appropriate files together and compresses them which decreases the amount of requests made to the server & sizes of the files. Result is a dramatic decrease in the loading speeds.

The script can be used in most of the PHP enabled websites.

I hope it'll help you.

**Teknowledge** · 07-04-2010, 07:46 PM

i think its better to search on youtube.

**franklin4005** · 07-08-2010, 03:18 AM

Steps for improve the website loading speed:

* Make fewer HTTP requests
* Add a far-future expires header
* Gzip your page's components
* Minify your JavaScript, CSS and HTML

Here I have mentioned important points.. you go through the coding on Google..