Help! My website is too slow!

[tkd]

Hi,

I'm busy building my website using Photoshop and ImageReady and although I'm trying to keep it simple and minimal my galleries take too long to load up.

www.timkdavies.co.uk (http://www.timkdavies.co.uk) (N.B. only the bird and scotland galleries are up)

Is there any way I can keep the overall style but somehow speed things up?

Cheers,
tkd

[Doom1701e]

I would suggest up'ing the amount of JPG compression on the photos. They all seem to be about 80-100K each times 16 pics is 1.28MB-1.6MB and that can be a lot to load, especially for dial-up people. Which version of Photoshop are you using? If it is CS2 (I dont know if older versions of PS have this) you can use the "Save for Web" option and choose the Medium JPG setting. That should give you more of a 30-50K image, much faster to load. Good luck! :) Pics look great BTW.

[tommy_london]

You might want to rethink how you've built your site. Making each page one big jpeg is not the most user friendly way of doing things.

On your homepage alone there are 9 elements (default homepage graphic and 8 rollovers) that add up to over 600k - you should really be chopping things up and only reloading elements that change. Also when you click on a gallery it loads all the images in - what really needs to happen is something where each one is loaded in if/when it's needed.

[Zilly]

lots of small slices will load better than few big ones use the slice tool in PS to do this

[cdifoto]

Doesn't load too bad on my computer...and my DSL isn't even all that great. I can see where a dial upper might have some issues though.

EDIT: Ok the galleries themselves are slower than a clogged drain....the rest seems ok.

[Photodawg1]

Loads fine on mine too. I really like the colors and layout.

[tkd]

thanks for the feedback guys! I'll give slices a go - although I have no idea how to go about it (all part of the fun). I'll also try the save for web save option.

thanks again
tkd