Optimize images for faster download

To do this, you have to either make your images smaller or you will have to remove them from the website altogether. However, though these methods work, they involve doing things that you would not really want to do! You wouldn’t want to reduce the quality of your image, nor the color of the image. You also wouldn’t have the heart to reduce the amount of your content as you had put them there in the first place because you felt it was needed on the website. So you need not worry about this factor as there is a method of opening your pages faster without actually having to do any compromise on your image or your content.

The first thing that has to be understood when using this approach is to recognize the difference there is between the ‘perceived’ download time and the ‘actual’ download time. The perceived download time is the time that is taken to display enough matter on your website for your visitor to understand the concern of the website. While the actual download time is the time that is taken for the entire page and its contents to be fully downloaded. Of these two times, the perceived time is considered the more important time as once the visitor gets something to read on to get an idea of the website, there is less risk that he will click away due to the page takes too long to load.

So now you have to work on reducing the perceived download time. This can be done by breaking down the content of the page into two or more tables. This is because web browsers do not display the contents of the page until it has compiled the entire table to the end. Once the first table is compiled, the browser works on the next table. So doesn’t it seem sensible to divide the contents of your page into few tables so that each table gets displayed one after the other, so that the visitor has something to look at instead of a blank screen! This method can drastically reduce the actual download time of up to twenty seconds to a perceived time of two to three seconds.

So you could reduce the time it takes in downloading your website, and images, either by optimizing the images of the website or by reducing the downloading time of the website as mentioned above. However, when optimizing images, remember that it is important to strive to make sure that all the images of the website are not larger than ten kb. This may prove hard with animations, but if you could implement the rule, then you are sure to have some fast images! So keep these points in mind the next time you find that your page takes too long to download. Implement these changes and find the necessary improvements in the speed of the download time of the web pages!