My Website is too big

size of web site is too large (30kb)

[Penguinsnob]

I want to learn how to make my website's size smaller (in bandwidth usage). It want to cut it down to maybe around 10k or even 7k or so. it uses 5 link buttom which are .gif files and the main page has this large image file.

i don't know how to get the size smaller without changing the design of the site. my good designer friend made it and i like what she did with the sketching.

[Nick_W]

Forum 83 is your friend! [webmasterworld.com] ;-)

Nick

[ncsuk]

Put the URL of your website in your profile so we can have a look then we can suggest some changes.

[Mike12345]

Removing all the white space between tags in your source will help. See WW home page source for example. Try and reduce the size of your images by cropping all the unessary space around the edges, without jeapordising pic quality.

that all i can think of right now, but im sure others will have more.

:)

[ncsuk]

I wouldnt be too worried about 30k anyway. Most of my sites have 120k or so homepages... Once the images have loaded the first time the rest of the site is fine.

[msgraph]

Put the URL of your website in your profile so we can have a look then we can suggest some changes.

Mod note:TOS #21 = We do not allow review my site posts.

[ncsuk]

Can if I sticky him it though cant I.

[bunltd]

Hi Penguinsnob. As Nick said the CSS forum.

Just a few guesses: If you've already optimized the graphics for size, another thing would be to convert to CSS for controlling the fonts. Gets rid of all those multiple font tags. Another thing to consider: tables for layout can make for much larger pages than CSS-P (using a stylesheet for layout and positioning) I've gotten tremendous reduction in file sizes on sites using CSS-P.

Large javascripts can also add to the weight...

LisaB

[tbear]

All the above are good recommendations.....

However......
So long as you have....
>>5 link buttom which are .gif files and the main page has this large image file.<<
....you are limited as to how small your page can be.....

I always advise against image link buttons and large images (especially on an index file) unless they cannot be avoided.
Just my way of doing things mind.... ;+)

[Penguinsnob]

i am very interested in learning p-css and css. i am running a pre written include file so that I can do things like,

<? drawheader.mine.inc?>

contents

<? drawfooter.mine.inc?>

would p-css has similar functionary so that all the change in how the page is layout can be done by editing one file? I recieved a response from people saying that 30k page loaded "super fast" on her 56k modem. I wonder if this is ture. maybe my cable modem is too slow or something.

[FourDegreez]

A 56K modem user can typically load 5K per second, if they aren't downloading other things in the background. So a 30K page would take about six seconds to load.

[limbo]

If you have to use javascrpit place the script serverside. This will reduce page size.

I think your problem, by the sound of it, is your large numbers of Images. Cut the fat! Either try to find a good way to do the same thing with text or optimise every image to the limit.

Have you optimised them? If not I recommend Fireworks - the export preview function can shave thousands of them bytes off!

[limbo]

Good article on this subject [psychology.wichita.edu]