Longer Download times

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Greetings again!
I, Dustin, have a nature photography business at web.mac.com/debo0062/iweb and some of my photo pages have long download times. Now in Photoshop I have saved each picture as a save for web and at a much reduced quality. I know that with 99 pictures on a page that can still add up. My question is why do some of my pages take so long to download over a dial up access? I have friends around the world on dialup and I would really like them to view the site let alone business contacts. Granted, I can reduce the number of pictures but, is there something else I can do to make the downloads faster? Any help would be greatly appreciated. And, have any of you used this site to estimate download times?http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/ Please email me directly at [email protected] if you know something about this and are willing to share?
Thank you in advance for your help. Sincerely, Dustin
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Answer 1

Here is some other information I do not understand but is avaiable to people via the optimizer check page I sent out on this thread. This is what reads out for my home page. Can anyone help me out here? If so, please either respond to this or send me an email about it! Thanks in advance for your help.
Analysis and Recommendations
TOTAL_HTML - Congratulations, the total number of HTML files on this page (including the main HTML file) is 1 which most browsers can multithread. Minimizing HTTP requests is key for web site optimization.
TOTAL_OBJECTS - Warning! The total number of objects on this page is 25 - consider reducing this to a more reasonable number. Combine, refine, and optimize your external objects. Replace graphic rollovers with CSS rollovers to speed display and minimize HTTP requests.
TOTAL_IMAGES - Warning! The total number of images on this page is 21 , consider reducing this to a more reasonable number. Combine, refine, and optimize your graphics. Replace graphic rollovers with CSS rollovers to speed display and minimize HTTP requests.
TOTAL_CSS - Congratulations, the total number of external CSS files on this page is 1 . Because external CSS files must be in the HEAD of your HTML document, they must load first before any BODY content displays. Although they are cached, CSS files slow down the initial display of your page.
TOTAL_SIZE - Warning! The total size of this page is 369695 bytes, which will load in 73.88 seconds on a 56Kbps modem. Consider reducing total page size to less than 30K to achieve sub eight second response times on 56K connections. Pages over 100K exceed most attention thresholds at 56Kbps, even with feedback. Consider contacting us about our optimization services.
TOTAL_SCRIPT - Congratulations, the total number of external script files on this page is 2 . External scripts are less reliably cached than CSS files so consider combining scripts into one, or even embedding them into high-traffic pages.
HTML_SIZE - Congratulations, the total size of this HTML file is 11545 bytes, which less than 20K. Assuming that you specify the HEIGHT and WIDTH of your images, this size allows your page to display content in well under 8 seconds, the average time users are willing to wait for a page to display without feedback.
IMAGES_SIZE - Warning! The total size of your images is 332628 bytes, which is over 30K. Consider optimizing your images for size, combining them, and replacing graphic rollovers with CSS.
SCRIPT_SIZE - Warning! The total size of your external scripts is 23783 bytes, which is over 8K. Consider optimizing your scripts for size, combining them, and using compression where appropriate for any scripts placed in the HEAD of your documents.
CSS_SIZE - Congratulations, the total size of your external CSS is 1739 bytes, which is less than 4080 bytes. This will fit into three higher-speed TCP-IP packets.
MULTIM_SIZE - Congratulations, the total size of all your external multimedia files is 0 bytes, which is less than 4K.
Greetings again!
I, Dustin, have a nature photography business at
web.mac.com/debo0062/iWeb and some of my photo pages
have long download times. Now in Photoshop I have
saved each picture as a save for web and at a much
reduced quality. I know that with 99 pictures on a
page that can still add up. My question is why do
some of my pages take so long to download over a dial
up access? I have friends around the world on dialup
and I would really like them to view the site let
alone business contacts. Granted, I can reduce the
number of pictures but, is there something else I can
do to make the downloads faster? Any help would be
greatly appreciated. And, have any of you used this
site to estimate download
times?http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/anal
yze/ Please email me directly at [email protected]
if you know something about this and are willing to
share?
Thank you in advance for your help. Sincerely, Dustin
  Mac OS X (10.4.4)  
IWeb questions