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I have been speeding up the loading time of my website lately and I have come across some very useful tools..

The following site will check how fast your site downloads in seconds on about 5 different connections so you can work out how long its taking your site to load for people on dialup, I found this very useful, I have taken about 30 seconds off my overall load time for people on dialup.
Web Page Analyzer

A few tips on images for websites, large images such as headers and photos should be jpg format, small images such as buttons, smilies etc.. Should be gif or png just play around and try to get the best quality but smallest image you can for your site.

W3.ORG
Some of you may of already heard of w3.org, there html validation tool is the best, I validated my site and it fixed lots of errors and problems I have been trying to fix for ages, it also now displays correctly on all browsers I have tested :)

Well there?s a few tips to get you started so get speeding up your site!
 
crash said:
i think talkwebhosts has a great speed compared too other forum's i post in keep it up
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Talkwebhosts is vBulletin.. vBulletin Creators manage the validation and speed of the script they have created..

Im not saying talkwebhosts is slow, this is an informitive thread for people who may have slow loading websites, some may not even know it, I didn't know my site took nearly 1min to fully load for people on dialup and now it loads under 35 seconds..
 
hmmn i used this site to evaluate one of my sites. I have a lot of objects but low requests and only 2 main pages, so i average out ok. The big caution was the eye opening 14.4 and 28k speeds. i hope I haven't been losing participants due to load time. i did a survey early on and almost everyone was fast bband or cable.

hmmn. good resource. rates a bookmark!
 
siteseer said:
hmmn i used this site to evaluate one of my sites. I have a lot of objects but low requests and only 2 main pages, so i average out ok. The big caution was the eye opening 14.4 and 28k speeds. i hope I haven't been losing participants due to load time. i did a survey early on and almost everyone was fast bband or cable.

hmmn. good resource. rates a bookmark!
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I dont think ive seen anyone with 14.4 and 28k for about 5 years lol im pretty sure your safe there, but its good to know.
 
scribby said:
I have been speeding up the loading time of my website lately and I have come across some very useful tools..

The following site will check how fast your site downloads in seconds on about 5 different connections so you can work out how long its taking your site to load for people on dialup, I found this very useful, I have taken about 30 seconds off my overall load time for people on dialup.
Web Page Analyzer

A few tips on images for websites, large images such as headers and photos should be jpg format, small images such as buttons, smilies etc.. Should be gif or png just play around and try to get the best quality but smallest image you can for your site.

W3.ORG
Some of you may of already heard of w3.org, there html validation tool is the best, I validated my site and it fixed lots of errors and problems I have been trying to fix for ages, it also now displays correctly on all browsers I have tested :)

Well there?s a few tips to get you started so get speeding up your site!
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Nice share! *bookmarks* I love the Web Page speed report...
 
NP's thought I would share, took me a while to find these lol ill just mention another tip I picked up which has been really useful.

When you do html img tags most people leave out the height and width part of it so like <img src="somesite/me.gif"> what this means is the browser has to download the image before it can generate the page fully.. because it needs to work our width and height.. so do your browser a favour by adding the height and width tags, you will notice your page will display alot faster :)
 
scribby said:
When you do html img tags most people leave out the height and width part of it so like <img src="somesite/me.gif"> what this means is the browser has to download the image before it can generate the page fully.. because it needs to work our width and height.. so do your browser a favour by adding the height and width tags, you will notice your page will display alot faster :)
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Very good tip. I still wish these attributes were made required in the XHTML 1.0 Strict DTD but alas they are not:

Code: 
<!ELEMENT img EMPTY>
<!ATTLIST img
  %attrs;
  src         %URI;          #REQUIRED
  alt         %Text;         #REQUIRED
  longdesc    %URI;          #IMPLIED
  height      %Length;       #IMPLIED
  width       %Length;       #IMPLIED
  usemap      %URI;          #IMPLIED
  ismap       (ismap)        #IMPLIED
  >
 
yeah its really good however scribby, people may not have 28k modems, but whats the speed of there phone line ? LOl thats the question live in acountr y or live out of no where?
U obviosuly get slower phone lines
 
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