Speeding up the opening of my home page

C

ChrisJ

My home page shows 1 minute @ 56kbps as the time it takes to open.

Are their some tips you can provide so it doesn't take as long?

Can I condense images, or something like that?

Thanks.
 
T

Thomas A. Rowe

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A

Ahmad Fawad Rashidi

OK I don't think it might be because of the elements you have on your home
page. If you have lots of picturs and javasripts or other elements or if you
have a background music you page might take some time for the people who are
using dial up connections. It might even take up to 1 min to load %100 the
entire page. But this is only once. If you publish you site correctly, when a
person logs in to you web site the basic elements of the page will be cached
into their temporary internet folder. There fore, when they try to log in to
you web again they don't have to wait 1 min. They can load it much faster
than before.
Keep in mind that you web server is very important too. I am not sure if you
are using your own server or paying for publishing.
If you are using you own server make sure you don't use it as your primariy
computer because it is web server. If you are paying a company to publish
your web site contact them or check you frontpage extension. You can
recalculate the web by going to frontpage extension and see you server health.

Good luck
 
E

E. T. Culling

Let us see the page. Be sure that you have carefully optimized your photos
and graphics in your image editing program.
Eleanor
 
R

Rob Giordano \(Crash\)

If you're going by FP estimate...it's just that an estimate of how long it
will take dl the page.

Yes, you should optimize your images...but not being able to see the page
we;d have no idea if you have a problem yet or not.
 
R

Ronx

But this is only once.
Once is once too many - I would not go back to a site where the Home
page took so long to load - and many would give up waiting and go
elsewhere.
A home page should be designed to load within 20 seconds at 28Kb
dialup. This implies a size limit of about 50-60KB for the page, and
everything associated with it, including images, external JavaScript,
external CSS, sound files, videos, flash etc.

Other pages can be larger, but the Home page should be designed with
speed in mind.

Also bear in mind that some users delete the browser cache when
closing the browser, and others have set the browser to never use it.
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