Photo
Size in Web Design
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When designing a website for your
company, your photos should never be so large that they
slow the loading time down to a crawl. Is there any
set size that you always make your photos? Not really,
we have outlined some pointers.
Keep photos on your homepage to a minimum and small.
This will help get the visitor interested in what you’ve
got to offer and hopefully get them in a mindset that
will make them wait for additional slower pages.
Use clickable images where possible. That means creating
a ‘thumbnail’ for the page, and creating a
link to the larger version of the picture. That way,
if they aren’t interested in seeing the big picture,
they don’t have to wait for it to load.
If you are going to have a large photo, make sure it
is a good photo. Not out of focus, bad color, or of
your family dog. You get the idea.
Here are two examples of download speed at 28.8 modem
speed. Most of the world is still at 28.8. I know you
can’t believe that, but it’s true.
The download speed for a text based page with no images
that is 8.6 KB will take 3 seconds to load. That’s
good. A page with a few photos that is 60 KB will take
21 seconds to load. Count it out, 1 one thousand, 2
one thousand, 3 one thousand and so forth… pretty
long. If it’s your homepage, most people will be
gone at about 8 one thousand. It’s my 7-second
rule. No more for a homepage.
The times when a longer load time is ok is when the
visitor is leaving your homepage to go to a product
page or photo gallery. Here they are expecting to get
information that they want or looking to see a series
of pictures. However, it is best to use thumbnails that
click to larger photos. And if at all possible, have
a statement that reads, ‘the image may take a moment
to load’ or something to that effect.
For a quick loading website, call
us today at 888-324-4091 to get a quote
from our team of design professionals.
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