Hi,
My grandaughter has several of her art works on one of my pages http://www.shinnen.ca/Kailey's Page.html, and they're very slow to load. Is there any way of speeding them up?
Thanks,
.....john

How big are they? The files?

Download a demo copy of Photoshop and do File > Save For Web, this will let you save it as a reduced JPG file which will be considerably smaller.

Hi,
My grandaughter has several of her art works on one of my pages http://www.shinnen.ca/Kailey's Page.html, and they're very slow to load. Is there any way of speeding them up?
Thanks,
.....john
Great pictures. This page loaded in the blink of an eye for me. Very fast.

The speed of loading is fine here as well. For image compression, there are many tools out there besides photoshop as well that does the trick.
Good luck

It loads quickly for me as well.
You may want to investigate your Internet speeds.

The pictures are way too big. The are ~2100x1600px in size, while they are displayed at ~700x500px. That basically means that they are about 3x too big, which results in 9x bigger in storage size.
My advice would be to use the Microsoft Photo Editor application to resize the pictures to ~700 x 500. That way they will be the size as they are displayed now, and the page will load considerably faster.

Just checked also other pages on your site, and it looks like most pictures require some resizing to make them load faster. There are pictures of ~1200x900 which are shown at ~600x450 . Since your pages contain a lot of pictures the speed of the loading is influenced a lot by the size of the pictures...

adding too big sizes of pictures may be a bad point setting up a website, especially when starting a website it could be a fright fact, which of course you need to avoid

Compress your images
http://www.smush.it/

It's okay over here, but you need to resize and compress the images, because they too big
anyway nice work!!

Thank you all for answering.
CoreyMade - I may do this, but I want to try some of the other suggestions first.
2William - I'm afraid this is my first attempt.
BA Rent - I've been using SeaMonkey's composer, and assumed the custom size I use 721x500px is what the pictures load at. Is this not the case?
Fast Loaders - You must have good machines. I'm using a P3, and this page takes about 15 seconds to load on my machine.
BKBerry - Photoshop cost money.... doesn't it?
Kaumil - I thought they were 721x500px, but now I'm not so sure. (See BA Rent's comment.)
.... john

BA Rent - I've been using SeaMonkey's composer, and assumed the custom size I use 721x500px is what the pictures load at. Is this not the case?
They are showing in that resolution, however the picture files themselves are a lot bigger. (Right click on the picture, and pick properties to check what the file resolution is...)

Thanks again.
I have resized the pictures, as you suggesed, and the page loads noticeably faster.
.... john

the images, load very quick for me, if you've not done any changes to the images, then I think it might of been the connection of the internet, slow speed makes images load slower... So yeah, but yeah save as web devices, in photoshop could help you make them load faster.

Hi,
Several people have commented that the images load fine for them. I think the difference might be in their computers. I'm using a pentium 3, 2ghz. My guess is that this is why the images load slowly on my machine.
Thanks,
....... john

The Image loading will depend internet quality but also lowerering the resolution will help the speed for viewing

If you want use Gzip on your pages to make it so they load the images last.. This can help with speed as well.. Most top sites including yahoo use it apparentely.. :)

Thanks for the suggestion. I probably won't go to that length until the site get's too unweildy.
... john

If you want use Gzip on your pages to make it so they load the images last.. This can help with speed as well.. Most top sites including yahoo use it apparentely.. :)
What you are talking about can be applied to HTML pages. Gzipping a image will have no noticeable effect.
In my experience:
1) A small image (less than 50x50 pixels) with few colors should probably be a GIF.
2) Average pictures should be saved as JPEGs when quality is moderately important.
3) Most normal and large images would be better off being saved as PNG (I've seen file sizes reduced to 1/3rd by converting from JPEG to PNG, with no change in image quality).
Your mileage may vary though.