One of the easiest things you can do to make your Web site a faster, smoother experience for your visitors is resize your pictures before you upload them.
Digital cameras' picture files are big so they'll print nicely at typical photograph sizes. That large size isn't needed to display a picture well on a Web site; many Web site pictures would actually be very small if they were printed on paper.
In fact, using pictures with large file sizes on your Web site can make it load very slowly. Multiple large pictures on a Web page could slow down the loading time to the point where your site's visitors become frustrated and leave. Those who would be especially hardest hit would be people on home dial-up connections (about one-quarter of home Internet users, according to 2007 figures from the Pew Internet & American Li ...