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[Formulaone]

Hellooo,

Im not sure if i am allowed to do this so if not, please just close the thread and I am sorry.

Right I built this site in Dreamweaver

http://www.aberystwythlifeboat.org.uk

BAsically when I look at it, it loads really fast and there doesnt seem a problem but then all the info is stored in my cache. However some people have told me that it loads really slowly. Its not a big site, so im quite confused.

Could you guys give it a look and then let me know how fast it loads, and if you think the sites to big??
And is there a tool in DW that will tell you your site is too large, or slow loading?
Thanks

 

[naiku]

The site loaded pretty quickly for me, probably under 5 seconds but then I am using ADSL. Not sure if its the same on all versions of Dreamweaver but in DW4.0 (and I assume MX) at the bottom of the design window in the right corner there should be some text displaying the size of your site and loading times in seconds for the page.

I can't remember off the top of my head which menu it's under but you can change the speed so that it tells you how long it will load for 28k, 56k, ISDN etc. I think it's under the file menu, but am not 100% sure.

Hope thats of some help

Naiku

 

[CTekMedia]

It wouldn't load at all for me. How heavy is the file? You need to keep it under 40k if possible (I tend to push that figure a bit).

Your web server host might not be providing good service. If the file is a reasonable size then consider changing providers.

Peace

http://www.bluetone.biz

BT

 

[Julianne]

No, wouldn't load for me either (using Opera 6) - have you taken the site offline while you work on it?!

As a general rule, though, remember that you need to optimise your graphics for web use (compressing jpgs etc) - uncompressed images will add heaps onto your page load time.

Complex/nested tables will add to your page load time - break them into separate, smaller tables if possible.

Lastly, I trust you're not using graphics to make blocks of text, nor using large graphics as background images etc? If you have large graphics it's best to slice them up and reassemble them in a table.

You may also be able to shave a little bit of weight off by using an html compression tool - I use Lightspeed, which is freeware and gets rid of unnecessary white space without pushing the code into a continous line that you can no longer make head nor tail of.

http://www.leevalleylions.co.uk

 

[GUJUm0deL]

Didnt load for me either...i'm using IE5.5 on a win98SE using a cable modem...
How big are the image files?? Maybe you can resize them in photoshop...if you can, do this:

1) Go under PS
2) File -> Save for Web (a dialog box pops up)
3) On the upper right hand side, there will be a small black arrow and select "Optimize to file size", click that and another dialog box pops us, in there, under "Desired File Size" box enter a number for the size you wanna turn the image into...cick ok and save
I have not failed; I merely found 100,000 different ways of not succeding...

 

[Formulaone]

Thanks Guys,

I was moving the site to a new host, as i thought that might help, but it took longer than I thought and the website ended up going offline for ages!
Sorry about that!

I think the new host (

http://www.100megswebhosting.com)

are much faster, and they donated free hosting to the site which was kind of them!

So hopefully it should load nice and quickly now

Let me know if it doesnt though, thanks again.