Even though more and more Internet users switch to broadband every year, a large portion of the web’s population is still running on good old dialup connections. And although it may be easier to do so, you cannot discount them and must consider their load time with your Vancouver web design.

Generally, all the text on your website will be loaded in a very short time even on a dialup connection. The culprit of slow-loading sites is mainly large images on your website, and it is very important to strike a delicate balance between using just enough images to attract your users and not to bog down the overall loading time of your site.

By doing everything you can to optimize the imagery on your Vancouver website , you will reduce the load times of your pages. This generally means you’re using image editing software to reduce the file size by removing unnecessary information and through compression.

For example, Photoshop will prompt you for the quality of a JPG as you’re saving it. Generally speaking, keeping this between 8 and 10 should give your image a good quality, all while keeping the file size relatively small.  If you don’t use Photoshop, the internet offers many free image editing programs which you can use to compress and thus reduce the size of your images.

A good alternative to JPG is a PNG file - this will still give you a good quality photo while maintaining a lowered file size. You can also save your images in GIF format — the image editing software clips away all the color information not used in your image, hence giving you the smallest file size possible. While this is a good way to reduce your file size you may end up with a lower quality image, so use it carefully.

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