Why do the images on my web site load so slowly?

Torner · 01-23-2008, 01:10 AM

Hey!

Here's my web site, Canadian Global Uniforms - Highest Quality Work Apparel for Chefs and Hotels, if you browse the product categories on the left, you will see that the images load very slowly, yet the files are not that big, about 60Kb each...

Any suggestions as to how I can make them load faster or in such a way that looks a bit more professional?

Thanks

**wasahobo** · 01-23-2008, 03:53 AM

Hey man, I think I may be able to help out.

Your image sizes are not to bad, they all seem fairly small. I see you are using XML to load the images. Am I correct? If so this could be part of your problem. Did you create this site your self?

Your site does not load that slow for me, but then again it could all depend on the persons computer and connection.

You can try to redo your source code. You have a very large sized source code. Your main index has over 1025 lines of code. To me this seems to be over kill for such a small simple page. Maybe try moving your CSS and XML to its own page, and having the main page call for it could help a tad.

Some other options you could do to the site.
-- Redesign, Site does not stand out, and it does not do a good job selling the product.
-- Investing in a different means to organize your products. PHP has alot of great options for these kinds of things. Maybe a shopping cart(paypal) this way it will be alot easier for you to manage everything and keep track of all your sales.

**Sean** · 01-23-2008, 08:51 AM

Loads very fast for me.. a trick i have been using for ages which i dont think i have ever mentioned is when i save my JPG images in Photoshop i re-open them in Paintshop Pro 7 and then save them again as high quality JPG's - for some reason i can get the same quality JPG at 2/3 of the size photoshop saves them as.

**wasahobo** · 01-23-2008, 11:36 AM

I use Fireworks and save the images at 95% instead of 100% JPG and there is no difference. I have a HD monitor and I can not see the difference. Cuts the sizes in half.

**Sean** · 01-23-2008, 08:59 PM

We should get a simple JPG each and do a saving test with photoshop, paintshop and fireworks will be interesting to see the results