Image size affects download speed

Lets say you have a photo of an assembly line that you want to put on your website.  Following are four examples of the same photograph downloading at different speeds, simply due to optimization--the speed differences are noticeable if you are using a dial-up internet connection, but not on a broadband connection.

1. Non-optimized JPEG image 132 Kbytes	2. Partially optimized image 30 Kbytes
3. Fully optimized JPEG image 13 Kbytes	4. Fully optimized GIF image 30 Kbytes
	(notice poor image quality)

Hopefully, you can still read this while the first image is still downloading!  If you think your site has an image filessize problem, contact SwiftStream by email or phone, and ask for a free site analysis -- there is no obligation! 

 

Note about these images:  If you download this page again, the images will have been stored in your browsers cache memory, and will all appear simultaneously, regardless of the image file size.