Every Year , number of users who are start using the internet increase , and sure some of them are still running on the old dial up connection , so counting them and putting dial up users in your mind whiles you are designing a website is an important thing , because they are the most people who are Affected by the large images and flash on your website , so what you can making for them are decrease your load time of your website as much as you can .
What make web pages load time high is not the text on the website , the high load time of a website is mostly because of large images on your website , and it is not easy to make a balance between putting a high quality images with the lowest size .
So here you may need to optimize your images with the highest quality and lowest load time you may need to do these important things :
If you are using an image editor like Photoshop so when you are saving your images in JPG extensions , photoshop will ask you about what is image quality for the image you have , Choosing eight is the best choice as it will save images that will saves time and have its high quality , If you are not using photoshop for editing your photos then you can use image compressors , you can find them easily on the internet , you can download any one of them and reduce your image quality .
Also PNG extensions is the best extension you can use for best quality and the lowest picture size , try to use this extension as much as you can , Also saving your Image in GIF format will deletes all unused color information If you make it the smallest size possible , so try to balance between image quality and it’s size wisely .
Here you are websites you can use to reduce your image size online without downloading any software :
http://www.stanleyshilov.com/online-tools/image-compression/
http://www.imageoptimizer.net/Pages/Home.aspx
http://www.resize2mail.com/advanced.php
http://reduction-image.com/resizer-online/index_en.php
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absolutely right! images should b in .gif or .png format.. or used in smaller size so that people not having high speed internet can also view your site.
thanks for sharing useful links