Reducing Load Time Through Image Optimization

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<h2>Reducing Load Time Through Image Optimization</h2>
by <a href="mailto:rick@justpayten.com" title="E-mail the author">Incredible Articles</a>
Even though more and more Internet users switch to 
 broadband every year, a large portion of the web 
's population is still running on good old dialup 
 connections. It is therefore unwise to count them 
 out of the equation when you're designing your 
 website, and a very major consideration we have 
 to make for dialup users is the loading time of 
 your website. 
 
Generally, all the text on your website will be 
 loaded in a very short time even on a dialup 
 connection. The culprit of slow-loading sites is 
 mainly large images on your website, and it is 
 very important to strike a delicate balance 
 between using just enough images to attract your 
 users and not to bog down the overall loading 
 time of your site. 
 
You should also go to a greater length and 
 optimize every image on your site to make sure it 
 loads in the least time possible. What I really 
 mean is to use image editing software to remove 
 unnecessary information on your images, and 
 thereby effectively reducing the file size of 
 your image without affecting its appearance. 
 
If you own Photoshop, it will be obvious to you 
 that when you save an image as a JPEG file, a 
 dialog box appears and lets you choose the 
"quality" of the JPEG image -- normally a setting 
 of 8 to 10 is good enough as it will preserve the 
 quality of your image while saving it at a small 
 file size. If you do not have Photoshop, there 
 are many free image compressors online that you 
 can download and use to reduce your image's file 
 size. 
 
On the other hand, you can opt to save your images 
 in PNG format to get the best quality at the 
 least file size. You can also save your images in 
 GIF format -- the image editing software clips 
 away all the colour information not used in your 
 image, hence giving you the smallest file size 
 possible. However, saving in GIF format will 
 often compromise the appearance of your image. 
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