Pages load slowly - image resolution probs?

i suppose the answer to this is pretty obvious but i'll ask anyway...
my iWeb pages load a bit slowly, and on my iPhone some of them don't even finish loading - they stop before they're done.
i've just checked some of the images - typically they are about 250 pixels square or so and most say they are transparent gifs, and are 43 bytes.
a few are jpegs and are 9000, 12000 or even 15000 bytes. i guess they are the problem?

A 15 kb image file is not very large by any standards. The site loaded quickly for me. However, I have a very fast cable connection. What sort of connection do you have? The largest file on any of the pages is the background image at 316 KB and is the one that seems to load last in any of the pages. You might try optimizing it. Although that's not really big either but could be reduced in file size with some optimization. The welcome site has 36 files it has to load. You can see what they are by bringing up the Activity window in Safari under the Window menu. I took the background image and optimized it in Photoshop and got it down to 72 KB from 416. You can download it by clicking here. It will download as a zipped file so you'll need to unzip it. Give it a try and see if it will improve the load time for you. It's the same for all pages.
Wyodor speaks very highly of Web Site Maestro, a site optimizing program. It has a demo mode that lets you optimize 50% of the files in a site. You might give it a try.
Looks like a terrific house. Wish we had know of it back in 2000 when we stayed in Malaga for a week.
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