What makes a page slow down?
A. Speed makes a difference on the Web – the faster your pages load, the more likely you are to keep the attention of your viewer. There are two ways to significantly increase the speed of your pages: reduce the number of graphic images, and reduce the size of graphic images. Although reducing the number of graphics images can have a dramatic effect on speed, it also diminishes the content of your site and may not be acceptable to you. Reducing the size of your graphic images is often the preferable way to speed up the response of your pages. Sometimes you can make the same impression with a smaller image. Try decreasing the physical dimensions (height and width) of your image. Since the number of bytes is typically related to the square of these dimensions, reducing height and width can be significant. Try using solid-color GIF images (like logos, cartoons, and text as graphics). The GIF file format is very efficient with images that have horizontal regions of solid color, so design y
