IWeb site loading slowly?

Hi! My iWeb site loads really slow. I think it's because iWeb converts all the images to PNG. How can I make my site load faster?
~Matt

PNGs load really fast, they are the smallest and highest quality images.
Do you have a link to the site, it will allow us to see it and figure out what is slowing it down.

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Hi, I've created this site in iWeb 3.0.2. It's loading slowly, and even more so when on AOL. I have a lot of images per page, and try to keep them small. I'd appreciate any feedback on how to improve the loading speed in all browsers. Thanks for your help!
http://www.goodlifegear.us

You have a lot of images that are PNGs. The total file size is large and is compounded by your use of frames.
Try adding the frames before importing into iWeb and load them as JPEGs.
Using an Optimizer application will also dramatically speed up the download of your pages.
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/SearchEngines/Optimize.html
This may help too....
http://roddymckay.com/PhotoSatellite/OptimizeImageFile.html

IWeb Pages Load Slowly in Browser

Even since the 1.0 version of iWeb, I noticed that the content rich themes resulted in very slow page loads. So, I decided to choose the most minimalist theme possible -- Modern. Even with the latest version, I still notice that the pages created load quite slowly. Here's a simple page with just a few elements on it:
http://web.mac.com/resourcesforlife/journal/
The various layers load at different times, so rather than text appearing on a page, the text appears without a page and then the image layer of the paper shows up later -- kind of ruining the effect of text on a paper.
Previously, the blog directory (main page) would load at an average speed. Now it seems even slower. There are some kind of white borders being placed around the images and this takes a while to apply. I didn't notice these prior to the 2.0 version of iWeb.
So, in general, the density of coding on the pages and inefficient design of the pages, seems to cause them to load slowly. This is a similar problem to what I've heard about with people using Microsoft Word to create HTML pages. The code ends up being very complicated and takes a long time for the browser to interpret. So, many people use programs like Dreamweaver to create the cleanest and simplest code possible for their pages allowing them to load quickly.
Another example of an unnecessarily slow page is my blog archive. It's just text. When it generates, it almost seems like the server is creating the page using a MySQL engine or something like that. One would think that the archive page might be generated into clean HTML at the time of publishing. I looked at the source code, and it isn't pre-generated using basic HTML. It's calling up Java Script routines to generate the page:
http://web.mac.com/resourcesforlife/journal/writings/Archive.html
Any thoughts on this topic?

How weird, but cool! It's too bad iWeb isn't as smart as you are. Since the site generates much of the coding on the fly at the time of publishing to the web, you would think it could think of a smarter way (like the one you've presented) to generate the page image. For example, the text I typed in on the little notepad begins as me typing text. It ultimately ends up as a graphic image created by iWeb when publishing. So, why not just make the entire page a relatively compact JPG image?
Your suggestion would work great if I wasn't planning on changing the content of my main opening page.
I noticed if I used the fun handwriting font along with others in the same text box, that the entire text box became hundreds (like 300) different images representing the separate text and links on the page -- super inefficient. So, I ended up using the fun handwriting font in a separate text box that gets converted to an image and then another text box of Arial font text:
http://web.mac.com/resourcesforlife/journal/topics.html
So, that works on those pages. But I wanted the main page to look nice. Oh, also, some of the elements on the page are links. The movie tickets link to a certain page, for example. So, I'd need to create hotspots in the jpg image to accommodate for that.
In any event, I'm still going back to mark this question as solved because I think for most people's situations it would be with the suggestion you made -- use iWeb to design the graphics of a page, and then save it as a JPG.
I suppose I could also use Pages or Keynote to do the same. Once an entire web page is a JPG image, it doesn't matter how it was created.

Why is my site loading slowly?

I'm curious. I have high speed, and my site loads quickly for me, although, it does take a few seconds as things appear, like the background, headings, etc. Is this normal? Some others are saying that it's VERY slow for them, so it's gotta be bad for non high speed internet users.
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Hi Tami
Here are some of the backgrounds and images you are using on your pages, and their sizes:
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http://www.heartdogstudios.com/heartdogstudios/About%20Me_files/Biophoto-filtere d.png 446K
http://www.heartdogstudios.com/heartdogstudios/Images/background.gif 319K
http://www.heartdogstudios.com/heartdogstudios/Photographyfiles/backgroundimage1.png 479K
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If you've already optimised the images, then once you drag them into iWeb, don't apply any effects within iWeb itself, otherwise you will turn it into a png again upon publish.
Michael
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I am sure this must be the case for everyone, but if I click on an iWeb link vs. a homepage link the difference in loading times in amazing. My old homepages load in seconds, iWeb in minutes.
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Have others noticed this?

Hi NH Sullivan,
I too have also noticed less than satisfactory loading times, even for simple iWeb sites. (Again, regardless of platform, browser etc.) It seems to take a particularly long time to load the navigation sections and photo galleries.
I have not looked into a solution to this, but I have looked at the source code for iWeb generated sites and to me (Although I'm not an expert) there is a lot of unnecessary code.
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I have a 100Mbit fiber connection that consistently gets between 110 and 116MbitDL and 2.3-2.5Mbit UL on speedtest.net from my local server. When I say some sites are loading slow, I mean slower than 56k, not slow relative to my normal fast speeds. My last computer using realtek eNIC and my room mates computer using a broadcomm eNIC has no such issues.
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It's obvious you just made a typo. Here is one topic regarding internet with the 45 : https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=170539.0
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Pages that hang and lock up IE will usually load after optimizing.
I have had the band of missing background occasionally. Usually I would just run the files again and mistakes are corrected - sometimes it takes two or three passes.
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Iweb site on .mac LOADING SLOW! Please Help

My iweb site loads very slow. It does have a lot of images, but can someone help me to convert some of my text files that iweb made images to text? Or any other advice would be much appreciated.
Here's my site it's hosted on .mac
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But if that's the solution, then doesn't that mean
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OT

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William...
Glad to hear that this works well for you, too. Now I can give CDs to customers who have a hard time with load speeds of my site.
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-- Jim

Much more PNG files in iWeb site and make it slowly

I found that iWeb will change some text into PNG files, it cause anyone can not copy the text from my page, and make the page size bigger and slowly.
And then, I don't know when iWeb will change text into PNG, when it will not. Sometimes when I write some words in the page, and publish, I can see the words are in text format, but when I continue adding words in it and publish again, I found that all the words has been changed into PNG.
So, when a page loading in Safari, I can see much more image files in my page, but not text+image same as a normal web page.
All that make the site loading very slowly. I don't like that if iWeb look like this.

Instead of creating a hyperlink and then choose a file, put the pdf(s) on the server yourself first.
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Changed templates,
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Ran Maestro (which tells me it only makes the site 29% faster)
Published to FTP server an not Mobile Me
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Here is what I changed to: http://only2degrees.com/Only2Degrees/Home.html
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ANY Suggestions, comments, help, critic I will glady take Anything really!
I am at my wit's end with this!
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Kerilyn
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You say that optimizing only makes it go 29% faster. That's the difference between actually loading in IE rather than locking it up.
That cool browser background is going to slow things down a lot.
The problem with iWeb is that you can make really snazzy sites but IE can't handle them.
You really have to dumb things down - everything plain - no whistles or bells.
I've found the solution with my latest site. Its for musicians who want to build a site with iWeb so everyone will be looking at it on a Mac.
A couple of years back I read that the average surfer would wait for up to 7 seconds for a page to download. I tried to build a few that would do that in IE. I ended up with a plain white page, an image, a couple of icons and some text and optimized it with WSM and it just made it in time!
The main thing is to make your landing page as simple as possible. If you can get that to download fast and hook people in, you have a better chance of keeping them there even if the rest of the pages are a bit slower.
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