Website LOad Time

Do you want your site to load rapidly? If it is your individual homepage, it may be a big deal to you. If you are trying to run a business, or offer people significant information or a heavy web design layout, this can be very essential. If your front page takes a great deal of time to load into a browser, then you may want to do a little re-designing to augment the number of visitors that choose to stay at your site.

First, keep in mind that not everybody has a T1, cable modem, or ISDN connection to the internet. In fact, there are still a great number of surfers with modems less than 56K. So, as web designers we have to see to it that our sites load as rapidly as possible devoid of losing something important.

Let's start with the apparent bandwidth hogs: images and other media. My proposal here is to take out every form of multimedia entrenched in your front page apart from for images. Sure, a background song can be nice, but these sound files can take up a great deal of bandwidth, particularly if the sound is a .wav file. Videos can be even more taxing, and should almost certainly be avoided unless completely necessary. As a surfer, if I have to wait more than 10 seconds for something like this to load, I'm enticed to hit the back button. So if you use these, keep the file sizes small, yet, save them for a later page.