Web pages are slow to load

Question

I have a pretty good but basic understanding of web site
management but have discovered during testing that some of my sites
are pretty slow to respond. I understand how to set image densities
to 72ppi for monitor display and have been pretty consciencous
about that, but I'm finding that certain sites I have built are
still slow in spite of my best efforts.
Obviously there are some techniques I could use a little
education on.
Without getting too exotic, are there some simple, common
practices designers use to help the load speed of web pages?
I'm using simple html (no dynamics) and are just dealing with
text and images.
If you need to see an example, this site's homepage sometimes
can take a bit to load. I did say "sometimes" so obviously not all
the loading issues are design related. PLEASE note this is a PG-13
site (no porn or anything too bad; just adult humor and comment).
http://home.comcast.net/~buckanddusty/
Thanks
Tom

Answer 1

That particular page is 257K. As such, it will take about 60
seconds to
completely load when accessed on a 56k dialup connection.
There is no magic
about this effort to minimize this loading time -
1. Use as few images as you can
2. Those images that you use should be no larger
(dimensionally) than the
smallest you can get away with to deliver the look/message
3. Those images that you use should be optimized (by reducing
their
quality) until they are almost unacceptable
That is about all you can do.
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"TCarp" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>I have a pretty good but basic understanding of web site
management but
>have
> discovered during testing that some of my sites are
pretty slow to
> respond. I
> understand how to set image densities to 72ppi for
monitor display and
> have
> been pretty consciencous about that, but I'm finding
that certain sites I
> have
> built are still slow in spite of my best efforts.
>
> Obviously there are some techniques I could use a little
education on.
>
> Without getting too exotic, are there some simple,
common practices
> designers
> use to help the load speed of web pages?
>
> I'm using simple html (no dynamics) and are just dealing
with text and
> images.
>
> If you need to see an example, this site's homepage
sometimes can take a
> bit
> to load. I did say "sometimes" so obviously not all the
loading issues
> are
> design related. PLEASE note this is a PG-13 site (no
porn or anything too
> bad;
> just adult humor and comment).
>
>
http://home.comcast.net/~buckanddusty/
>
> Thanks
>
> Tom
>
>
>